A Day in the Life of a Doctor: Code Blue Emergency
[embedded content] Join medical resident Siobhan Deshauer, MD, for a night shift in the intensive care unit. She’ll be caring for critically ill patients, solving medical mysteries, intubating a patient who cannot breathe, and reacting to a code blue emergency. Following is a rough transcript (Note that errors are possible): Siobhan Deshauer, MD: Code blue, […]
This Man Had the Hiccups … for 3 Years
[embedded content] Ever felt like your hiccups would never stop? For Chris Sands, that was his reality for 3 years before the cause of his hiccups was diagnosed. Find out what hiccups are and what causes them, including some rare life-threatening causes. Following is a rough transcript (Note that errors are possible): Chris Sands: Then […]
How Space Doctors Train on Earth
[embedded content] Rohin Francis, MBBS, applied for astronaut selection to the European Space Agency. While he has no chance of getting in, he chats with doctors who are currently training for space here on Earth. Following is a partial transcript of this video; note that errors are possible: Rohin Francis, MBBS: Some friends were chatting […]
Viral Claims at Mt. Vernon School Board Meeting Debunked
[embedded content] ZDoggMD discusses and debunks controversial statements made by Dan Stock, MD, to Indiana’s Mt. Vernon School Board that went viral. Following is a rough transcript (note that errors are possible). ZDoggMD: All right guys, I’m making a video I just don’t even wanna make, but so many people have sent me this video […]
A Medical Resident’s COVID-19 Diary
[embedded content] Siobhan Deshauer, MD, recounts the past year and a half, from working in the emergency department and caring for critically ill patients in the ICU, to getting sick with COVID herself, finally getting vaccinated, and giving out vaccinations to others. Deshauer: Hey, guys. I’m Siobhan, a fifth-year medical resident. Now, today’s video is […]
Injecting Cocaine Into Your Spine for Science
[embedded content] Rohin Francis, MBBS, takes a look back at that time doctors injected themselves with cocaine in the name of science. Following is a rough transcript: Rohin Francis, MBBS: Good evening and welcome back to the Old England Journal of Medicine. It’s off to the former colonies today, as recently I had the sterling […]
Google’s Rise in Healthcare
Google has become thoroughly embedded in our daily lives since its introduction in late September 1998. By 2006, it had so permeated our culture and language that the word “google” found its way into the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as both a noun and a verb. Today — at a whopping 88.65% share — Google continues to […]