Difference between revisions of "Laws of the House of God"

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I. Gomers don't die.

II. Gomers go to ground.

III. At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse.^[1]

IV. The patient is the one with the disease.

V. Placement comes first.^[2][3][4][5]

VI. There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with #14 needle and a good strong arm.

VII. Age + BUN = Lasix dose.

VIII. They can always hurt you more.

IX. The only good admission is a dead admission.^[6]

X. If you don't take a temperature, you can't find a fever.

XI. Show me a BMS who only triples my work and I will kiss his feet.

XII. If the radiology resident and the BMS both see a lesion on the chest X ray, there can be no lesion there.

XIII. The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.

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References

1. ↑ Med Student Figures Out Heart Rate: Count Beats in a Day, Divide by 24 Then Again by 60 (Gomerblog)
2. ↑ Placement Tips: How to Place a Patient on the Moon (Gomerblog)
3. ↑ Patient Admitted for Placement Exacerbation (Gomerblog)
4. ↑ “Hospital Medicine” Renamed “Placement Medicine” (Gomerblog)
5. ↑ Placement: A Hospitalist’s Perspective (Gomerblog)
6. ↑ Nurse Keeps Dead Patient to Prevent Another Admission (Gomerblog)

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