December 13th, 201800In this series, Gomerblog helps health care professionals compare and contrast two entities that are often mistaken for one another. Today we discuss the differences and similarities between asteroids and hemorrhoids.
Asteroids are also known as flying space turds
Hemorrhoids are dilated veins within the anus. They can...
November 28th, 201802MIAMI, FL – Milan Patrelli of Patrelli’s Nice Buns, a local bakery in Miami, Florida made local history when he assisted in the operating room at Dale Medical Center this morning. Patrelli was recruited by general surgeon Dr. Rocky Barray, a loyal pumpernickel patron of the bakery, to assist in what Dr. Barray referred to as...
November 28th, 201802MIAMI, FL – Milan Patrelli of Patrelli’s Nice Buns, a local bakery in Miami, Florida made local history when he assisted in the operating room at Dale Medical Center this morning. Patrelli was recruited by general surgeon Dr. Rocky Barray, a loyal pumpernickel patron of the bakery, to assist in what Dr. Barray referred to as...
November 13th, 201802DURHAM, NC – Stating that the outside world contains enough variables to make pulmonary aspiration a true and serious risk, hospitalist Mack Reynolds has told his patient that he should remain NPO after discharge later today.
“Remember after you leave not to eat ever again”
“Sleeping in one’s own bed, lying...
November 12th, 201801WASHINGTON, DC – Thousands of Doctors who read the National Rifle Association (NRA) tweet to “stay in their lane” suddenly realized that the NRA was right. Maybe they should just stay in their lane.
“Most of us went into medicine so we could sit in front of a computer and click boxes on an EHR,” stated...
September 5th, 201802
2.6K SharesFor the first time in recorded history, anesthesia blamed surgery for a poor case, and surgery accepted blame.
“We took this guy back for a hernia repair, and the surgeon was just poking around with kittners for an hour! It was like he was hoping tissue planes would materialize, and shocker: they didn’t. He...
September 5th, 201802For the first time in recorded history, anesthesia blamed surgery for a poor case, and surgery accepted blame.
“We took this guy back for a hernia repair, and the surgeon was just poking around with kittners for an hour! It was like he was hoping tissue planes would materialize, and shocker: they didn’t. He wasn’t...
September 3rd, 201803NEW JERSEY- Avagard, the surgical hand antiseptic is now being replaced in many orthopedic surgery centers across the globe. The replacement? Large bowls of gym chalk, magnesium carbonate, seated next to the operating room table and readily available for heavy lifting, or heavy surgery.
“I never understood the point of scrubbing....
August 30th, 201803LA based vascular surgeon Dr. Jackson Dyers has begun recommending that his patients living with obesity undergo above the knee amputations (AKAs) as a means of reducing their total body weight.
“Diets rarely work. Patients always gain back the weight once they stop the diet,” explained Dr. Dyers. “And bariatric surgery...
August 30th, 201803LA based vascular surgeon Dr. Jackson Dyers has begun recommending that his patients living with obesity undergo above the knee amputations (AKAs) as a means of reducing their total body weight.
“Diets rarely work. Patients always gain back the weight once they stop the diet,” explained Dr. Dyers. “And bariatric surgery...
