By the way, check out the GiggleMed pain scale humor in the medical humor store.
Emergency Room – A Patient’s Perspective
Very funny video from a patient’s perspective on an emergency room visit. Comedian Brian Regan tackles triage, the pain scale, opiates, & the pain of childbirth.
The pain scale riff is awesome… (so run and tell that, JCAHO.)
Hospital Humor Video – ER vs Medicine
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 a step ahead in understanding some of the unspoken truths of hospital throughput:
Check out Z Dogg MD’s YouTube channel and his blog.
EMTs Bust A Move During An Emergency
I wish the EMTs at my hospital could present patients like this…
The New “COPD”
OK, this isn’t a very long post… and it’s certainly not a usual GiggleMed-style medical humor post.
Instead, let’s call it a proposal. In light of all of the patients I have seen in the hospital with “shortness of breath” as their primary presenting symptom, I think it’s time for a new diagnosis… a new disorder… a new classification.
I really think doing so will help with complex Joint Commission issues, throughput, ER overcrowding, coding confusion and more. It will help admitting physicians, ER attendings, EMTs, and interns and residents.
So, here’s my proposal:
“COPD” should now stand for “Congestive Obstructive Pneumonia Disease”
This will allow ER doctors and admitting physicians to prescribe the “Shortness of Breath Shot Gun” with no qualms at all… no need for elaborate, detailed histories… a quick, selective “physical exam” will be all that is needed. The pre-printed orderset will be a snap… a Treatment Trifecta:Â
- Antibiotics? – check
- Steroids and nebs? – check
- Diure ...