Pilot Makes Passengers NPO After Midnight for Flight Tomorrow
ATLANTA, GA - In an effort to minimize the risk of aspiration during tomorrow's three-hour East coast flight from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Boston's Logan...
Radiologist Orders CT to Figure Out Contents of Breakfast Burrito
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Radiologist Calvin Sherpa sat silently at his outdoor patio table, staring at his breakfast burrito that he ordered at his...
Medical Scribe to Subspecialize in Verbs
NORFOLK, VA - In her few years as a medical scribe, Kacey Agnarsson has observed how health care is getting more specialized with each...
Intern Fails at Champagne Tap, More Like Barolo Tap
ATLANTA, GA - Internal medicine intern Timothy McDuffy's quest to perform a lumbar puncture (LP) in which there are zero RBCs in the first...
Uber Offers In-Hospital Patient Transport with UberGURNEY
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Uber’s success knows no bounds. After infiltrating cities across the world with their groundbreaking online-based transportation service, Uber is infiltrating...
Bored Radiologist Clinically Correlates Everything Himself
Reports from the radiology reading room at Mercy Hospital indicate that 47 year old radiologist Timothy Jacobs was so overcome with boredom that he...
Radiologist in Yosemite Plummets to Death in Search of Strong WiFi Signal
YOSEMITE, CA - A vacation turned to heartbreak and tragedy today when radiologist Craig Sherpa plummeted to his death while climbing Yosemite National Park's Half...
NURSE SUSPENDED FOR WRITING NOTES IN CAPS LOCK
NORFOLK, VA - NURSE AMANDA HAN WAS SUSPENDED EARLY THIS MORNING BY HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION FOR THE SAME OFFENSE YET AGAIN: ALWAYS WRITING HER NOTES...
New ABCs of Emergency Medicine, “Airway, Breathing, CT Scan, Disposition”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - New practice-changing guidelines for resuscitation in the emergency department were released just ahead of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) meeting...
Hospital Replaces Inpatient Beds with Bathtubs Full of Ultrasound Gel
PHILADELPHIA, PA - Following an unexpected announcement from executive leadership, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has converted all of its inpatient hospital...