Spooky Tales
Celebrating Halloween any time of year.
The Intergalactic Hospital for Malfunctioning Mechanicals
Since the hospital's inception, no mechanical beings have passed the rigorous entrance examination to practice there.
The epic of Narcissus
A medical miracle becomes a medical student in an updated fable for hospitalists.
The face mask of the red death
A tale of plague and class suits this Halloween.
The violent Vorg
Working in a hospital on a space station, you meet all types of patients.
The Phantom of the Operation, and other tales from the crypt-ococcus
Catch up on the horrors of hospital medicine.
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A resident discovers a very special hospital computer.
The ID of Dorian Gray: A tale of medical horror
The picture showed a bright-eyed, earnest young healer.
Vital signs are vital
Introducing a new series that highlights the importance of vital signs.
The unusual occurrences in room 687
An earnest young doctor finds himself practicing medicine in a whole other dimension.
Get ‘er done
A fictional doctor embarks on a quest to place a dialysis catheter.
Day of the undead: The zombie intern
I didn't think my fellow first-years were really worried about my consuming them, but you never know about the strange prejudices of the living.
Heroic measures
A locum tenens has a strange experience at a new hospital.
Locum terror
Here I was pulling into the staff parking lot of a funky old private sanitarium in the middle of stinking nowhere. I rang the bell and the creaky door swung open. A very pale and dusty nurse pointed to the staff lounge, but said nothing, though I seemed to detect the ghost of a smile.
A leap forward
Life was fairly dull on Ganymede-13. I sat in my small bungalow on the edge of a vast forest of genetically engineered bamboo, looking at several foot-long segments of the plant.