Spooky Tales

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Celebrating Halloween any time of year.

May 2021 | FREE
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The Intergalactic Hospital for Malfunctioning Mechanicals

Since the hospital's inception, no mechanical beings have passed the rigorous entrance examination to practice there.

April 2021 | FREE
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The epic of Narcissus

A medical miracle becomes a medical student in an updated fable for hospitalists.

October 2020 | FREE
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The face mask of the red death

A tale of plague and class suits this Halloween.

January 2020 | FREE
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The violent Vorg

Working in a hospital on a space station, you meet all types of patients.

October 2019 | FREE
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The Phantom of the Operation, and other tales from the crypt-ococcus

Catch up on the horrors of hospital medicine.

February 2019 | FREE
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A resident discovers a very special hospital computer.

October 2018 | FREE
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The ID of Dorian Gray: A tale of medical horror

The picture showed a bright-eyed, earnest young healer.

January 2014 | FREE
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Vital signs are vital

Introducing a new series that highlights the importance of vital signs.

October 2013 | FREE
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The unusual occurrences in room 687

An earnest young doctor finds himself practicing medicine in a whole other dimension.

December 2012 | FREE
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Get ‘er done

A fictional doctor embarks on a quest to place a dialysis catheter.

November 2010 | FREE
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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.

May 2010 | FREE
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Heroic measures

A locum tenens has a strange experience at a new hospital.

October 2009 | FREE
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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.

July 2009 | FREE
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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.