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/hospital-humor-video-er-vs-medicine http://gigglemed.com/hospital-humor-video-er-vs-medicine#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:17:34 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=1519 #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; } Is your hospital struggling with throughput? Patients in the hallway in the ER? Residents taking waaaay too long to come to admit patients? Medical attendings being difficult to reach? Or hospitalists fighting admissions? Well, watch this hilarious Medicine vs ER Star Trek parody video by ZDoggMD. If you understand the jokes in it, you are [...]]]> http://gigglemed.com/hospital-humor-video-er-vs-medicine/feed 0 http://gigglemed.com/transplant-humor-lunch-cooler-banned-by-joint-commission http://gigglemed.com/transplant-humor-lunch-cooler-banned-by-joint-commission#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:52:04 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=1487 #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; } 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, [...]]]> http://gigglemed.com/transplant-humor-lunch-cooler-banned-by-joint-commission/feed 0 http://gigglemed.com/tarzan-m-d-king-of-the-healthcare-jungle-episode-02 http://gigglemed.com/tarzan-m-d-king-of-the-healthcare-jungle-episode-02#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:42:46 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=1474 #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; } Before we needed healthcare reform… before Joint Commission (you know, the Good Ole Days)… before the FDA… before insurance companies… there was one physician to lead us through the healthcare jungle – Tarzan, M.D. (and soon to be introduced, Jane DO). In Episode 2, we find him offering smoking cessation advice. Those twigs kinda smell [...]]]> http://gigglemed.com/tarzan-m-d-king-of-the-healthcare-jungle-episode-02/feed 0 http://gigglemed.com/tarzan-m-d-king-of-the-healthcare-jungle-01 http://gigglemed.com/tarzan-m-d-king-of-the-healthcare-jungle-01#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:35:56 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=1463 #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; } Before Joint Commission… before the FDA… before insurance companies… there was one physician to lead us through the healthcare jungle – Tarzan, M.D. Way ahead of his time, Dr. Tarzan’s descriptions of clinical findings were in the patients’ language. His instructions were persuasive. And his patients could eat all of the fat and red meat [...]]]> http://gigglemed.com/tarzan-m-d-king-of-the-healthcare-jungle-01/feed 0 http://gigglemed.com/catheter-related-infections-wtf-foley-humor http://gigglemed.com/catheter-related-infections-wtf-foley-humor#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:02:10 +0000 Dun Tzu http://gigglemed.com/?p=1451 #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; } 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 [...]]]> http://gigglemed.com/catheter-related-infections-wtf-foley-humor/feed 0