Sunday Silliness: bazillions of bricks edition

by dr-exmedic

I don’t know what I’m more jealous of:  the fact that someone has the creativity to build a fully accurate model of a UK ambulance out of Legos (complete to the rear stretcher lift), or the fact that someone has the time to do so. See more here.  See an entire Lego Fire District–multiple departments [...]

Sunday Silliness: states’ worth edition

by dr-exmedic

I’ve frequently said that North Carolina must not have much going for it if their biggest point of pride–immortalized on both their license plate and state quarter–is the accomplishment of two visiting Ohioans.  That said, I must admit that being “First in Flight” (even if only because you have a windy spot with soft sand [...]

What’s under your uniform?

by dr-exmedic

Hopefully, there’s at least a T-shirt under your poly/cotton epauletted work shirt….

Speaking of panic….

by dr-exmedic

Typos can cause misleading beliefs. Some of them are totally hysterical.

Run away! Run away!

by dr-exmedic

How scary can you make the latest flu panic seem?

Sunday Silliness: totally Shatneriffic awesomeness edition

by dr-exmedic

Courtesy Reason, a new book which promises the most entertaining battle royale to hit fiction since, well, the invention of fiction, in which “all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.”

Sunday Silliness: plated vanity edition

by dr-exmedic

While I don’t expect to ever get one, I do enjoy some vanity plates.  (Once, when I was very young, I did want to get plates that said “DR J.”  When I quit wanting to be a physician, that idea went away; fortunately, it didn’t come back when I got into medicine.)   That’s why I thoroughly enjoyed this [...]

Belting them in

by dr-exmedic

Do we really need to be told how to get patients from point A to point B?

EMS Pet Peeves #2

by dr-exmedic

And this isn’t limited to EMS people by the way, but that’s where I have the most experience with it:  people who report vital signs as “stable” when they’ve only taken one set.  The dictionary definition of stable:  “8.  (of a patient’s condition) exhibiting no significant change.”  If you only have one set, you cannot [...]

Sunday Silliness: Easter candy edition

by dr-exmedic

Courtesy Reason, I bring you the results of the Third Annual Washington Post Peeps Diorama contest.