Navigating the system as a doctor — About 25 years ago, when my son was just three, we moved to Durham, North Carolina so I could join the Emergency Medicine faculty at a famous university healthcare system there that shall remain nameless. At the time this incident occurred I was a new faculty member and not yet…

My no shit lists — As a ̶b̶̶̶r̶̶̶i̶̶̶l̶̶̶l̶̶̶i̶̶̶a̶̶̶n̶̶̶t̶̶̶ ̶̶̶m̶̶̶u̶̶̶l̶̶̶t̶̶̶i̶̶̶-̶̶̶f̶̶̶a̶̶̶c̶̶̶e̶̶̶t̶̶̶e̶̶̶d̶̶̶ ̶̶̶r̶a̶c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶u̶r̶ disorganized moron, I’ve dragged my readers kicking and screaming through a wide variety of topics — emergency medicine, politics, humor, satire, sarcasm, personal opinion, and more, much more. And for this I am sorry. I’ve done poetry — if limericks count as poetry — and…

No matter what you call the guy, the funny stories about him just write themselves — As we careen toward the season of ̷r̷a̷m̷p̷a̷n̷t̷ ̷c̷o̷n̷s̷u̷m̷e̷r̷i̷s̷m̷ good cheer and giving it’s appropriate to gift you a collection of ‘Rump-related stories from 2023. I kept it to a 6-pack, which you can imbibe along with a cheeseburger and super-sized fries. The stories summarize all the best qualities of…

Some Mother Faqirs will strenuously object — I see you already. All of you out there reaching for your Scrabble dictionaries. I’ll save you the trouble. There are already 47 q-words where the q is not followed by a u. But, since mbaqanga, qindarka, sheqalim, and tariqats are HIGHLY unlikely to find their way into, then out…

Talk about being a Friend of Medium — In an early spirit-of-the-season move Doctor Funny is “boosting” writers whose stories have been boosted by Medium. Some of these writers write for Doctor Funny. Some do not. What unites them is their history of having one or more stories boosted by Medium. Doctor Funny is further “boosting” these writers…

Boost your boost — Maybe you’ve had the fortunate experience of being boosted, maybe even more than once. If so, congrats! BTW — if you’re unfamiliar with the “boost” concept, it refers to Medium’s decision to more broadly distribute a story based on certain extra-fine characteristics it possesses. …

Standing strong would have been the right thing to do — A Racist Prick and My Shameful Behavior Standing strong would have been the right thing to domedium.com

While dodging murder at the hands of a physician-in-training — For about 20 years of my three-decade Emergency Medicine career, I worked in so-called resident-run Emergency Departments (ED). In resident-run EDs, senior physicians like myself, provide supervision and bedside teaching to resident physicians and doctors in training. Lest you think that junior doctors are running amok in these places in…

Why? Because it’s there. —