http://gigglemed.com (: medicine is fun again :) Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:17:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://gigglemed.com/throckmorton-on-iphone-yikes http://gigglemed.com/throckmorton-on-iphone-yikes#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:16:30 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=666 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Just when you thought you heard of everything… GiggleMed goes and puts a Throckmorton app out there for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. For those of you in the dark on Throckmorton’s Sign, it is a somewhat fictitious radiographic sign that clinically astute radiologists use in determining the highest yield portion of a radiology [...]]]> http://gigglemed.com/throckmorton-on-iphone-yikes/feed 0 http://gigglemed.com/medical-cartoons-finding-pneumo http://gigglemed.com/medical-cartoons-finding-pneumo#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:49:55 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=1283 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Medical educators update their materials to mirror the familiar educational videos of childhood for the current student: Finding Pneumo Blue’s Wheezes Dora the Practionora Mickey’s Observation Unit Curious George and the Cirrhotic Man Ten Patients About to Drop – Time Management from Dr. Suess Beauty and the Yeast Conflict resolution with Bert and Ernie]]> http://gigglemed.com/medical-cartoons-finding-pneumo/feed 0 http://gigglemed.com/your-picture-next-to-guaiac-in-the-dictionary http://gigglemed.com/your-picture-next-to-guaiac-in-the-dictionary#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:17:12 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=1221 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Dude… not how I’d want to be remembered… I was looking up “hemoccult stool” in Google Images for my next blog post, and this guy was on page 2.]]> http://gigglemed.com/your-picture-next-to-guaiac-in-the-dictionary/feed 0 http://gigglemed.com/stool-humor-melena-ball-gift-candies http://gigglemed.com/stool-humor-melena-ball-gift-candies#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:03:28 +0000 rsardonicus http://gigglemed.com/?p=619 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } I mean… would you be offended? Let’s say you bring in some candy to the office… I open up the nice, beautiful tin you brought it in, only to find this (see the picture below). So, I offer some to a friend… “Ed, would you like a melena ball?” To your credit, though… they smell [...]]]> http://gigglemed.com/stool-humor-melena-ball-gift-candies/feed 0 http://gigglemed.com/walk-it-off-medical-humor http://gigglemed.com/walk-it-off-medical-humor#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:25:21 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=1087 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } If I ever tell a patient to “walk it off”, I’m very likely to be sued. However, if the Little League coach does it, it’s perfectly normal. What’s worse… people are more compliant with the coach’s advice.]]> http://gigglemed.com/walk-it-off-medical-humor/feed 0