Medical Humor
Looking at the funny side of hospital medicine.
Parasites of the future
Thanks to environmental change and scientific experimentation, we could be in for some intriguing developments in parasites.
Zero-truth medical updates
Catch up on the latest imaginary medical news, from manic mannequins to microleeches.
How am I doing?
Our humor columnist imagines his online reviews.
Thoracic Park
Get ready for the medical remakes of your favorite blockbuster movies.
The ward of Damocles
Our narrator encounters Dr. Cicero and Dr. Dan O’Klees.
Little Red Stethoscope and other tales
Read some hospitalist fables for the modern era.
The seven deadly hospitalist sins
Avoid these sins and aspire to the virtues instead.
Monitored
A hospitalist encounters a new efficiency system.
The Hospital Game Show Network
Get ready to compete.
On Her Majesty's hospital service
Read about the health care adventures of Spond, Dr. Jane Spond, pager number 00007.
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?
Apophenia
There is a black cloud hanging over your head; the universe is out to get you.
Almost a 5-star column
The “Great Satisfaction Madness” of 2027 is over.
House of Cards-iology
Hospital administration can sometimes be ruthless.
Dungeons and doctors
A new way to teach students borrows heavily from a popular game.
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.
First call: 1985
Our editorial advisor remembers his first night on call.
The fantasy hospitalist league
What if there were a fantasy league for hospitalists?
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.
The final page
Medical editor James S. Newman, FACP, remembers his first pager, and his next, and then wearing three at once...