Medical Humor

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Looking at the funny side of hospital medicine.

June 26, 2024 | FREE
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Parasites of the future

Thanks to environmental change and scientific experimentation, we could be in for some intriguing developments in parasites.

March 20, 2024 | FREE
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Zero-truth medical updates

Catch up on the latest imaginary medical news, from manic mannequins to microleeches.

October 5, 2022 | FREE
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How am I doing?

Our humor columnist imagines his online reviews.

August 3, 2022 | FREE
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Thoracic Park

Get ready for the medical remakes of your favorite blockbuster movies.

July 2021 | FREE
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The ward of Damocles

Our narrator encounters Dr. Cicero and Dr. Dan O’Klees.

September 2020 | FREE
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Little Red Stethoscope and other tales

Read some hospitalist fables for the modern era.

April 2020 | FREE
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The seven deadly hospitalist sins

Avoid these sins and aspire to the virtues instead.

March 2020 | FREE
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Monitored

A hospitalist encounters a new efficiency system.

November 2019 | FREE
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The Hospital Game Show Network

Get ready to compete.

August 2018 | FREE
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On Her Majesty's hospital service

Read about the health care adventures of Spond, Dr. Jane Spond, pager number 00007.

July 2018 | FREE
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Catastrophization

It seemed like the end of the world was coming and everything was out of control. Was it a collective Chicken Little moment? Or was the sky really falling?

February 2016 | FREE
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Apophenia

There is a black cloud hanging over your head; the universe is out to get you.

July 2015 | FREE
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Almost a 5-star column

The “Great Satisfaction Madness” of 2027 is over.

June 2015 | FREE
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House of Cards-iology

Hospital administration can sometimes be ruthless.

August 2013 | FREE
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Dungeons and doctors

A new way to teach students borrows heavily from a popular game.

March 2012 | FREE
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The apocalyptic hospitalist

A PubMed search for the phrase “end of the world” had no matches, so we must make certain assumptions in this report.

July 2011 | FREE
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First call: 1985

Our editorial advisor remembers his first night on call.

January 2011 | FREE
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The fantasy hospitalist league

What if there were a fantasy league for hospitalists?

August 2009 | FREE
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Hooked on mnemonics

Memory is elusive (and of course, it “lights the corners of my mind” or at least Barbra Streisand's mind). That's why there are so many tricks to remembering things, like acronyms, acrostics, rhyming keys, the image-name technique and the keyword method.

December 2008 | FREE
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The final page

Medical editor James S. Newman, FACP, remembers his first pager, and his next, and then wearing three at once...