April 13th, 201800 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY — After recent news about an emotional support peacock being barred from a United Airlines flight departing from New Jersey, Gomerblog is pleased to announce that the bird has made itself available to field therapy-related questions from Gomerblog fans worldwide. Dexter, the emotional support peacock, is a...
March 10th, 201800Boston, MASSACHUSETTS – In another unprecedented move by the Joint Commission (JC), therapy dogs will now be required to write progress notes on the patients they see. The move has infuriated therapy dogs all across the nation, but the Spokesman for the JC ensures that it is a necessary decision.
Beloved Therapy Dog, Mr. Button the...
March 9th, 201801BOSTON, MA – In an usual move yesterday at Massachusetts Lieutenant General Hospital (MGLH), a medical team has consulted psychiatry to determine if their patient’s lungs have capacity.
“This is a great teaching case because, one, it makes the distinction between the legal term of competency and the medical term of...
February 8th, 201801BROOKLYN, NY – Unable to cope any longer after a lifetime of hospitalizations for recurrent organ detachment, beloved spud, 65-year-old Mr. Potato Head, has tragically claimed his own life, committing a gruesome suicide by first placing himself in a French fry cutter before dropping his dismembered body into a fryer not once but...
February 8th, 201801BROOKLYN, NY – Unable to cope any longer after a lifetime of hospitalizations for recurrent organ detachment, beloved spud, 65-year-old Mr. Potato Head, has tragically claimed his own life, committing a gruesome suicide by first placing himself in a French fry cutter before dropping his dismembered body into a fryer not once but...
February 8th, 201801BROOKLYN, NY – Unable to cope any longer after a lifetime of hospitalizations for recurrent organ detachment, beloved spud, 65-year-old Mr. Potato Head, has tragically claimed his own life, committing a gruesome suicide by first placing himself in a French fry cutter before dropping his dismembered body into a fryer not once but...
January 6th, 201801ROCHESTER, MN – Recognizing it is a form of immobilization in which health care professionals are unable to move around much, a study newly published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that charting and documentation in an electronic health or medical record (EHR or EMR) increased the risk for deep venous...
December 30th, 201700“Wait, what did you just say about that patient?”Djibouti, Djibouti- The 5th annual Seminar of Hospital Internists Technologists Surgeons Traumatologists Others RNs and More (SHITSTORM) convention resulted in the drafting of a landmark document detailing the most common phrases heard in the middle of patient turnover right...
December 19th, 201701LOS ANGELES, CA – The direct result of budgetary cutbacks and an attempt to stay afloat, psychiatrist Eric Tavernier has downgraded his psychiatry couch for a sh*tty-ass lawn chair that he dug out of the shed.
“Welcome to my office!”“What can I say? It’s real-world medicine,” Tavernier said,...
December 11th, 201701New York, NY – On her first overnight call, internal medicine intern Dr. Erica Dalton has realized the entire hospital staff is sundowning. “I first started to suspect sundowing when the on-call attending Dr. Mohar told me I was his ‘tormentor’ and then threw a patient’s pudding cup at me,” recalls...
