Health Tips for Edward Snowden
As Edward Snowden hides out in third-world countries, GomerBlog has some health advice:
Will not be able to consult WebMD because the town’s one...
Tips: How to Read the New England Journal of Medicine
STEP 1: Grab copy of New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) from mailbox.
STEP 2: Pretend to read through the cover contents, enough to cause...
The Difference Between a Pianist and a Penis
In this series, Gomerblog delves deep into two things often mistaken for one another and helps sort out their differences in order to help...
Tips: How to Be the Coolest Doctor on the Block
Over the past few months at GomerBlog, we've received thousands upon thousands of letters from doctors all over the world asking us how they...
ICD-10 Primer, Quiz 1: Can You Spot the Y92 Code That Isn’t Real?
It is probably safe to assume that every health care practitioner in America has committed the Y92 or “the place of occurrence of the...
Physical Exam Tips: The Heart
In this series, we review the physical exam, the intermediate step in a patient evaluation that ultimately leads to imaging. There are so many...
Tips for New Interns: How to Curl into the Fetal Position
We can certainly feel for all those interns starting this month: their minds are spinning and their cardiac rhythms are just shy of V-tach....
Tips for Interns: How to Respond to Your Attending’s Questions
Here are a few short cases to help out our new interns!
CASE 1
Your attending asks you during floor rounds:
“What can you tell me about...
The Difference Between RICE & Rice
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...
Tips: How to Worsen Your Already-Terrible Bedside Manner
You may find your bedside manner is pretty terrible given how busy you are and your general frustration with humanity as a whole. If...