‘Despacito’ Doubles Spanish Vocabulary for Non-Spanish-Speaking Health Care Staff
Health care staff across the country are praising the song “Despacito,” Justin Bieber’s hit collaboration with Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, for enhancing interactions between Spanish-speaking patients and Spanish-impaired providers. Gomerblog interviewed staff at...
Medical Specialties as Disney Characters
Anesthesia - Rafiki from The Lion King. Most of the rest of us have no clue what the hell you are doing with all the beeps and knobs and when we look it never...
Attending Loses Perspective, Can’t Find it Anywhere
NASHVILLE, TN - "I swear I just had it," muttered 57-year-old vascular surgeon Tom Hatfield as he feverishly searched for his perspective under stacks of academic journals and negative resident performance reviews. Hatfield had...
Hospital Safety: Fire Marshall Bill Edition
Fire Marshall Bill Burns taught us valuable lessons in safety for 5 years. This one in the hospital was none other than the best. All possible outcomes are covered so take a moment and...
Breaking: Med Student Saves Patient’s Life Using Krebs Cycle
RALEIGH, NC - In a shocking turn of events in the emergency department this morning, 3rd-year med student Daniel Moder saved a patient’s life using only his knowledge of the Krebs cycle.
At 3 AM...
Med Student Given Important Task: Find Out What’s on Today’s Menu
NASHVILLE, TN - Instructed by her team that the task she was being given was of the utmost importance, third-year Vanderbilt University medical student Erin Sperling undertook the mission, and that was to find out...
Female Medical Student Looking Forward to Graduating and Being Called Miss
ALBANY, NY - Annabell Mittelschmerz is relishing the thought of graduating medical school in 10 short months and starting an extremely rewarding 5 years as a general surgery intern. But more than that is...
After Successful Renovation, New Call Room is Now Optimized to Cause Full-On Depression
JACKSONVILLE, FL - Convinced that being on-call isn't difficult enough in its own right, hospital administrators at Jacksonville Medical Center have successfully completed renovation of its call room such that is "as devoid of hope as ever"...
Med Student Begins Long, Long Climb Up the Totem Pole
SOMEWHERE AT THE BOTTOM BUT DEFINITELY FAR FROM THE TOP - Realizing that the commonly-used phrase to depict medical hierarchies is not a metaphor, first-year medical student Samuel Klein sizes up the task at hand...
Med Students Renamed “Teeny-Tiny Whipper-Jippers
In a unanimous vote Thursday, Lakeland General Hospital's administrative council decided to replace traditional designations on name tags with more "descriptive" names for easier identification.
"With the growing diversity of the medical team and allied...
