Gomerfrog

Get Your Questions Ready, It’s Time to Ask Gomerfrog!

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Meet Gomerfrog, our new Gomerblog frog!  Gomerdog was getting lonely and asked that we even up the ratio of animals to humans.  The rest...
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Gomerblog’s Fail-Safe Tips for Beginning Runners

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Did you make a New Year's resolution to start running but haven't gotten to it yet?  We're here to help.  This guide is intended...
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A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Use Incentive Spirometers (or Marijuana)

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Is this your first time using an incentive spirometer (or marijuana)?  Well, you're in luck: our Gomerblog team has created this easy 15-step process...
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Tips for Patients: How to Use a Call Light

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Nurses are incredibly busy.  And by busy we mean doing endless charting.  So much so that they're contractually not allowed to eat or urinate....
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ICD-10 Primer, Lesson 3: Star Wars Codes

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Another wonderful strength of the new ICD-10 coding system is not only the increased number of codes dealing with the rare but possible real-life...
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An Administrator’s Tips to Health Care Providers for Curing Burnout

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Burnout is prevalent.  Most of you reading this are burned out.  What can we do?  How can we preserve our sanity?  We sat down...
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Avoiding Sexual Harassment Charges on the Job

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With the arrest of a prominent emergency medicine physician in Manhattan for the alleged sexual abuse of patients in his care, it’s more important...
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The Difference Between RICE & Rice

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Today, we distinguish between another two often-confused entities: RICE and rice. RICE is an acronym that stands for Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation.  RICE is...
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New Year’s Tips for an Unfulfilling, Short & Unhealthy Life

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The New Year is upon us so what better way to set ourselves up for disappointment than with New Year’s Resolutions.  As you lay...
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Physical Exam Tips: The Nervous System

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The physical exam of the brain and nervous system can be broken down into two parts: the lumbar puncture and everything else. Lumbar Puncture The lumbar...