NASHVILLE, TN – A general surgeon at Vanderbilt University, Dr. James Cavalier, has successfully removed an inflamed and perforated appendix from his copy of Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice (18th Edition). His textbook is currently in stable condition.
“I was flipping...
NASHVILLE, TN – A general surgeon at Vanderbilt University, Dr. James Cavalier, has successfully removed an inflamed and perforated appendix from his copy of Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice (18th Edition). His textbook is currently in stable condition.
“I was flipping...
NASHVILLE, TN – A general surgeon at Vanderbilt University, Dr. James Cavalier, has successfully removed an inflamed and perforated appendix from his copy of Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice (18th Edition). His textbook is currently in stable condition.
“I was flipping...
East Aurora, NY—In a press release, Fisher Price has said that the children’s toy brand will add thoracotomy tools to its popular medical kit, which currently includes a stethsocope, otoscope, thermometer, blood pressure cuff, syringe, and a variety of hemostatic dressing and tourniquets, in response to the growing desire...
February 4th, 201901ATLANTA, GA – In an effort to minimize the risk of aspiration during tomorrow’s three-hour East coast flight from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Boston’s Logan International Airport, JetBlue Pilot Mickey Albright has made all 189 of his passengers on Flight 486 NPO after...
January 29th, 201906Picture taken from within OR 5 at University of Chicago Medical Center, one of the warmest ORs in the Midwest
SILVER SPRING, MD – Begging surgeons to keep operating room doors closed as much as possible, the National Weather Service (NWS) has cited the subzero temperatures of ORs in the Midwest as the source of the chilling polar...
Tired of mediocre Yelp reviews by non-compliant patients, Dr. Thomson created “Rate my Patient”, an app designed for physicians that gives them a little heads up on who they’re seeing in their office that day.
“Nowadays, patients and families are able to review physicians and procedures on multiple websites. I can...
Checkyoself, OR – Ever had a conversation with a colleague in another specialty and felt like they didn’t understand where you were coming from? As though they had some sort of secret advantage in life that you didn’t, preventing them from empathizing with your victimhood?
Or are you perhaps gifted with a certain amount...
January 19th, 201901PITTSBURGH, PA – Sometimes it’s better to acknowledge one’s own shortcomings and move on. That is why we’re saluting a hero, internist Dr. Keisha Boots, for summoning the strength and courage to do something all of us have always wanted to do: she tossed the tall stack of unread New England Journal of...
January 10th, 201901Kearney, NE – Kind Samaritan Hospital. Operating Room @ KSH has entered a third week of shutdown as Anesthesia and Surgery continued to spar over their demands for the surgical drape wall. Both sides remain unwilling to compromise on any of their demands for the wall.
Anesthesiologists insists on a fortified construction with...
