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I had people speaking a Mayan language in my office today

Not my first time, either. I also have families who speak Triqui and Mixtec. I've run into people speaking Quechua (more in residency;...

I am sick and tired of laypeople on reddit and in the office thinking they know more than doctors after doing their own research.

Quite frankly its getting insulting. I just had a someone comment about how they know more about their neuropathy than their neurologist. This person then goes...

Surgeon left sponge in abdominal cavity. Patient dies from peritonitis. Defense expert claims patient ate it.

This was such an unexpected answer from the defense expert. Kambat v. St. Francis Hosp. 678 N.E.2d 456 (N.Y. 1997) In August 1986, defendant physician Ralph...

What makes YOUR specialty say oh, for fs sake?

My favorite genre of medical humor is preventable catastrophe. Someone in my recent flumazenil thread described it as brainbros hate this one trick, and I...