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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Related Reading
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- How do I pronounce a patient dead?
- Pager
- Turf
References
- ↑ Med Student Figures Out Heart Rate: Count Beats in a Day, Divide by 24 Then Again by 60 (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Placement Tips: How to Place a Patient on the Moon (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Patient Admitted for Placement Exacerbation (Gomerblog)
- ↑ “Hospital Medicine” Renamed “Placement Medicine” (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Placement: A Hospitalist’s Perspective (Gomerblog)
- ↑ Nurse Keeps Dead Patient to Prevent Another Admission (Gomerblog)
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