April 12th, 201800 The community of Firth, Idaho is confused and uncertain after a recent car ad posted by local Radiologist Dr. Bentham. The ad is as follows:
Year: 2007 to 2015
Price comparison: None at the time of posting. Please see Kelly Blue Book price comparison to follow.
Make: Honda, as suggested by decals, but cannot rule out Hyundai...
March 8th, 201800CHICAGO, IL – Health care professionals are up in arms over their radiology colleagues at Chicago Medical Center, who keep talking about overpenetration and underpenetration on a regular basis among themselves and even among non-radiologists.
Really good penetration“I was looking for a read on a stat chest X-ray so I...
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...
Enjoy these recent very punny tweets from our friends on Twitter.
It all started with this tweet from @HarkerDavid, then went more viral than Norovirus on a cruise ship! Some residents say they don't really like surgery that much.
That's fine. Suture self.
— David Harker, MD (@HarkerDavid) December 9, 2017 Some residents...
December 1st, 201700“Weird, guess we’re using wine glasses not test tubes…”ATLANTA, GA – Internal medicine intern Timothy McDuffy’s quest to perform a lumbar puncture (LP) in which there are zero RBCs in the first and last tubes, the so-called “champagne tap,” continues in failure as today’s attempt was...
November 21st, 201701CHICAGO, IL – While out on his first date in years, Dr. Mike Doxycycline had a very awkward moment. His date asked Doxycycline what he does for a living. He replied, “I’m a pediatric radiologist.”
His date, who works in banking, was quite befuddled and asked for clarification.
Doxycycline then...
November 8th, 201701“Recommend CT or MRI”THIS DAY IN MEDICAL HISTORY, 1895 – Did you that today on November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (also spelled Roentgen) not only produced and discovered X-rays, but also created the first ambiguous radiology report?
In an experiment with his wife Bertha as his subject, he produced the...
November 5th, 201702To a radiologist, this is poor qualitySAN FRANCISCO, CA – Radiologist Calvin Sherpa smiled as the morning cup of joe warmed his hands this crisp autumn morning. But that shortly faded just as he was about to take a first sip of his caffe latte. Something was wrong: the coffee art was under penetrated.
“I...
November 4th, 201700The Reading Room – “NO I WON’T DO IT,” radiologist Tim Johnson yelled at his coworkers when the topic of daylight savings time came up. “There’s too much daylight as it is. We don’t need any more. I’m not saving any of it.” For years, Johnson has expressed his displeasure of...
