Laparoscopies

I spent most of this afternoon watching laparoscopies. There wasn't much to do, so naturally my mind wandered towards "things that would make laparoscopies more fun". I came up with these:

a) Popcorn! A small crowd of people watching a screen in a darkened room without popcorn and slushies just seems wrong. At the very least, someone should wander round with a tray of ice cream.

b) Instagram filters - photos of abdominal organs would look much better in Brannan, with a bit of tilt-shift to blur the edges. And hashtags. All of the hashtags.

c) Video-game style sound effects and achievements - surely it'd be better to have an 8-bit "bloop" for every adhesion you divided, "Surgeon 2 has entered the game", and a final boss to beat before you can close.

Any more suggestions?

A couple of stolen comics

I'm on anaesthetics at the moment, and the other day I had the idea to draw "Mighty Morphine Power Rangers"...but after a quick Google, I realised the joke has been done before. So here's what Stuart Day (http://stuartday.tumblr.com) drew: 

I'm doing this audit which involves asking patients to score their pain 0-10 - don't get me started on how useless it is - and it always reminds me of a comic by Allie Brosh: A Better Pain Scale. Her comic Adventures in Depression is definitely worth a read as well.

Inappropriate songs I've heard in hospital, part 1

"Every Breath You Take" - in ITU, during a discussion on turning off ventilatory support
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - during Caesarean
"Sexy and I Know It" - Just not okay. EVER.

Toxicology

Follow your dreams...no wait, don't.

Not a lot of people know this.

Aspiration

See also: aspirational pneumonia, foreign body aspiration...

Fatty McCheeseburger

NPH

And it was all yellow.

Be specific!

Flippant Student Problems

So it appears I've got myself one of those interblog things the young and hip trendy have. I say.

Well here's the story...whilst revising for med school exams last month, I kept getting distracted by bad puns in whatever I was reading. I drew them as cartoons, in an attempt at catharsis. But there were always more! And so I present to you, dear reader, some badly drawn puns.