NEW HAVEN, CT – Finding herself underdressed & underprepared for this torrential downpour of admissions and cross-cover calls, third-year medicine resident and self-diagnosed black cloud Nirali Patel is now begging the on-call meteorologist for help.
“This isn’t even a black cloud, this is a black hurricane!”...
ATLANTA, GA – In the same way patients can be progressively difficult sticks from the venous standpoint, the same holds true for their arteries. Thankfully one determined ICU resident didn’t let this stop her as she was able to emergently and successfully place an arterial line into the circle of Willis.
“Only one word...
ER STATION – All aboard! Health care professionals, have your tickets and IDs in hand as you get ready to step aboard the Hot Mess Express! This is the Hot Mess Express #4139 at ER Station making 12 stops with final destination ICU City!
This express train makes the following stops: Altered Mental Station, Los Chest Pain, The Twin...
In what is being called a major wake-up call for the Emergency Medicine community, a groundbreaking study published in The Washington Journal of Emergency Medicine found that the efficacy of turkey sandwiches in convincing frequent fliers to discharge against medical advice is down 40% from previous studies. This phenomena of turkey...
December 17th, 201905In what started as a joke by the senior emergency medicine residents at Hospital Woeisme, Baby Yoda memes posted around the ED have had an astonishing and unexpected impact on patient behavior.
Baby Yoda, the beloved 50-year young version of the Jedi Yoda from Star Wars spin-off TV show The Mandalorian, has quickly become a celebrity in...
Dr. Dahle, otherwise known as The White Coat Investor, who is well known among the medical community as the authority when it comes to personal finance among healthcare professionals, has some bad news to announce. His wife of 19 years has decided to finally leave him for a man who took her out to Applebees.
“I couldn’t...
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Ms. Roberta Flowers, well-known to Philadelphia General Hospital staff as a gomer, has successfully been treated for “pneumonia” and is ready to be discharged from the medical ward as soon as a bed opens up in the emergency room.
Admitted to the medical unit one week ago after a thorough evaluation of...
Saint Louis, MO – Mr. James Rice originally presented to the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Saint Louis with shortness of breath last Tuesday, but he was found to have a pulseless left foot upon arrival. What happened next is unthinkable.
It was a crowded evening at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital...
WORLD 3-2 – It looks like the cumulative lifetime effect of punching bricks has finally caught up to our favorite plumber: In an attempt to find 1-Up mushrooms and bank some extra lives, Super Mario has shattered all 27 bones in his left hand.
“It’s not good, it feels like a bag of worms, a term that’s okay when...
PORTLAND, OR – In what is certainly a breath of fresh air, an ER physician was pleasantly surprised to discover that her patient wasn’t a poor historian; in fact, she was a very rich historian, full of incredible details. In fact, she might be the best historian in the history of medicine.
“She gave the best history I...
