Personally, I don’t have the guts to try this… But could you imagine the look on the Joint Commissioner’s face if they walked into the break room and saw this lunch cooler from ThinkGeek on the table?

…Priceless, me thinks.

Organ Transport Lunch Cooler

This would make an awesome gift for Doctor’s Day, Nurse’s Week, or graduation from medical school, nursing school, or EMT training.

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Here’s a novel idea…

Why don’t you try to reduce hospital acquired infections with campaigns that actually work?

Too often, hospitals and healthcare organizations just pump out generic posters, corny phrases on stickers, and plant some “champions” among us to try to motivate us. But generic messages only add to the Sign Fatigue we all experience. (Kind of like those annoying banner ads on web pages. After a while, we don’t even see them anymore.) Plus, we’re always a little cautious… can’t be too racey… can’t be too controversial… don’t wanna rock the boat… what would marketing say? or worse, what would legal say?

Well, sometimes you just have to say, “WTF?” (Why The Foley?)

Click on the icons to see other WTF – Why The Foley? gifts, signs, shirts, and more:

More ideas for infection control:

• Hand Washing – C. diff Clarice
• Hand Washing – C. diff Taste
• C. diff Crossing
• MRSA Crossing
• Got Foley? Sign
• C. diff Shared Among Friends

I wish the EMTs at my hospital could present patients like this…

Medical humor can sometimes tick people off, even if it rings true. Take this funny pay for performance commentary on the state of nephrology, for example…

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Check out these funny nephrology humor gifts:

• I’m Too Sexy For My Kidneys
• My Nephrologist Can Beat Up Your Nephrologist
• Ask Me About My Catheter
• Got Foley?

Hospital acquired infection, healthcare associated infection… the name keeps changing, but who cares what we call it (as long as we keep the abbreviation the same – HAI – for the sake of The Literature and all of these signs we’ve made).

Healthcare associated infection is, of course, a huge concern. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), catheter-associated infections (central lines, Foleys, etc), C. diff, MRSA, and many others (here’s a HAI list from the CDC).

At GiggleMed.com, we applaud the efforts of Kimberly-Clark Corporation in creating the HAI Watchdog Community (but not so much in the sturdiness of the Scott toilet paper my wife bought in bulk from Sam’s… that’s a gripe for another day) as it seems to be one of the better efforts at reducing such infections without instilling fear in the masses that we’re being invaded.

But of course, we think one of the best ways to educate people and influence them to change for the better, is through humor. So naturally, we changed some of their signs around:

We also like to use such efforts to shamelessly plug our educational medical humor/humorous medical education products:

Check out these (Not-So Funny) HAI resources:

• HAI Watchdog Community
• Tools to raise HAI awareness at your facility
• HAI list from the CDC
• More coming soon…

Disclaimer: GiggleMed.com has absolutely no financial relationship with Kimberly-Clark or any other large corporation (yet). But if they (or any of their competitors) would like to ask us about co-branding our Bugs on Scrubs text, we’d certainly consider it :) Hint, hint… nudge, nudge… wink, wink.

This bench sits in front of a hospital, right next to the GI lab. This happens to be the bench by the drop-off and pick up site for elderly patients too.

Quite naturally, I blame the Joint Commission. After all, they’re the ones who make us toss our expired GoLytely. The stuff still works… here’s proof:

The scary part about this medical humor cartoon is that someone really said it to a patient. It was a joke, of course… but it was entirely true, too.

By the way, feel free to use this cartoon & other GiggleMed copyrighted medical humor cartoons in your presentations. Just be sure to include the source & the (c) GiggleMed.com text.

Lastly, if you’re looking for medical humor gifts, check out the GiggleMed.com gift store:

Here’s an ultra-short (about 18 seconds) medical humor video where we explore what it would be like if the Quinton catheter were a Clinton catheter instead. Sounds silly, but you might like what he has to say.

Of course, he denies everything…

Fine, but how do you explain this drape, Sir?

So… my daughter has a very cute habit of drawing pictures and leaving them on my desk for when I get home. Very cute… until lately… when I started to see all of the medical disorders these renditions of Daddy had embedded in them.

Like this one (above)… It’s cute… it’s funny… until you see that (a) I’m obese, (b) I have a DVT, (c) I have a right facial droop, (d) probable sleep apnea, and (e) a frozen shoulder. Oh… and I probably have gas.

Yeesh… kids these days. I blame the internet.