Healthcare Not Fair is a web series taking a satirical look at our dysfunctional health system. Taken from the perspective of the beleaguered physician, real-life internist Waqas Khan shows you why the American dream for physicians is threatened now, more than ever. (Warning: Explicit language.)
The surprising reasons why you should feel sorry for doctors
ZDoggMD was a hospitalist in a past life, so he knows all about hospital readmissions. Here are his R&B stylings on the ridiculousness surrounding the issue.
An R&B anthem on hospital readmissions. It captures what’s wrong so perfectly.
Medical student Justin Dubin gives an engaging talk on the Socratic paradox and how it applies to medicine. Part of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Med Talks 2014 series.
Physicians: Embrace the Socratic paradox. You’ll be a better doctor if you do.
A patient undergoing a colonoscopy pressed “record” on his smartphone before being sedated, hoping to capture instructions from his physicians after the procedure. What he heard instead was shocking: “In addition to their vicious commentary, the doctors discussed avoiding the man after the colonoscopy, instructing an assistant to lie to him, and then placed a false diagnosis on his chart.”
The incident cost his …
A patient secretly records his colonoscopy. It cost this doctor her job.
Want to learn about sepsis? This video from the residents at UCLA-Kern Medical Center teaches you, Justin Timberlake style.
Get your sepsy on!
Doctors created a music video about sepsis. The result is sick.
ZDoggMD with a Katy Perry-inspired take on sleep apnea. CPAP users rejoice! For those without sleep apnea, watch and you’ll something too.
That Katy Perry sleep apnea music video you’ve been waiting for? It’s here!
Can you imagine a world without health care? This video shows you. Courtesy of the U.K.-based Save the Children.
Where you were born determines if you live. This 1-minute video shows you why.
Medical schools across the country are embracing simulated and virtual patients to train medical students. Drexel University and the University of Florida use a device called Patrick, “a simulated patient that talks to medical students while offering real-time feedback about the virtual prostate exam he’s receiving.”
Image credit: QKED Science
This robotic butt teaches medical students rectal exams
Saurabh Sinha is a medical student who gave this fantastic talk about appreciating the present moment, and asking what more you can do. Both physicians and medical students can learn from this engaging talk.
How can we appreciate the moment? This med student shows us.
Did you know that Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul & Mary, sang the Colonoscopy Song? You do now, and here it is.
This surprising folk song will inspire you to get a colonoscopy. Really.
A new series by the physicians over at Health Sketch explain what a stroke is and its symptoms. A nice explanation, presented in visual, easy to understand terms.
What is a stroke and what are its symptoms? These doctors sketch it out.
Ever wonder what patients think of when you see them in the hospital? Here’s the answer, in this powerful video from the Cleveland Clinic.
This is what it’s like to be a patient. Doctors need to see this.
Jordan Grumet reads from this new book, I Am Your Doctor: and This Is My Humble Opinion. I highly recommend this poignant look at what’s it like to be a physician today.
This doctor bares his soul and describes what it’s like to be a physician today
ZDoggMD’s take on prescription drug abuse, set to Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.” The comments from the video are all over: Is it, as one commenter notes, “a genuine reflection of the issue of drug-seeking patient behavior,” or, “offensive to people who are truly suffering”? You decide.
A Taylor Swift parody about prescription drug abuse. Yes, it went there.
Dan Roman gives a powerful account on what it’s like to live with depression, performing at the 2015 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Sometimes, words can’t explain it. In this case, poetry can.
What’s it like to live with depression? This poem shows you. Wow.
What’s the first year of medical school like? Students at Washington University School of Medicine show you in “First Year Funk.” Enjoy.
Med students jam to Uptown Funk? Yes, they did. And they’re good.
Medical student Benjamin Romney created this video for a senior project. It highlights the diverse aspects of a career in family medicine. An inspiration to anyone considering the field.
I love family medicine. And so should you. Here’s why.
So you want to match into surgery? This video shows you what it takes. From the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, who also created the ever-popular Frozen parody.
She matched into surgery! Let’s watch how she did it.
In a followup to his vaccine PSA, Jimmy Kimmel’s crew take to the streets and absurdly ask whether vaccines should be a child’s choice. Priceless.
Vaccine or lollipop? Jimmy Kimmel asks kids this tough question.
Jimmy Kimmel gets doctors to say how they really feel about the anti-vaccine movement. It’s about f’n time.
What these doctors say on Jimmy Kimmel is how we all feel about anti-vaxxers
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