More Specialty Wars!

Okay, so Happy Hospitalist took on ER physicians in a recent Xtranormal text-to-video creation a few days ago and ERP answered pretty quickly on behalf of ER docs worldwide.  See their directorial débuts here.

I did not know, though, that the Medical Specialty "Movie" Wars have been going on for a good while.  (Eventually, these vids will achieve the same sub-genre cult status as zit-popping masterpieces.  Okay, so that was a shameless, gratuitous plug for Emilbus20...)  Now that I am no longer an unappreciated, oft-maligned scout for PTZ (I specialized in misspelled foreign word searches), I am enjoying my YouTube excursions much more!  And HS now has a snowball's chance to catch a new vid as the first viewer ever, the stuff of her dreams... {{waving at my PTZ friends!}}

En tout cas -- I've put together a sampling of these medical tantrums, in order of publication.  In the course of rediscovering the world of medical bloggers, one thought keeps recurring -- how much easier it is to understand and empathize the many challenges these folk face when they choose to couch their frustrations in humor instead of snarky venom.

GI vs Anesthesia

Uploaded to YouTube by addormitus on July 20, 2010: "Case Discussion"


Anesthesia vs Neurosurgery

Uploaded to YouTube by hautegirll on July 21, 2010:
"An animated discussion in the OR. Inspired Orthopaedics vs Anaesthesia."


OB/GYN & Anesthesia

Uploaded to YouTube by ETHERBUNNY2010 on July 25, 2010: "She would like an epidural..."


ER officer Vs Surgeon

Uploaded to YouTube by tubelessbra on July 26, 2010:
"An almost everyday slightly over exaggerated referral"

Orthopedia vs Anesthesia (There are several of these specialists battling one another; I chose this one because of the Anthropology Consult!)

Uploaded to YouTube by tedparksmd on July 27, 2010: "As an orthopod, I had to respond to this!"

Orthopaedics Consult (There are some HILARIOUS ones by orthos dealing with ER docs... One has the call for a consult justified by the fact that "the patient has bones.")

Uploaded to YouTube by randomta22 on July 29, 2010: "Orthopaedic hillarity"


ER vs. Surgery

Uploaded to YouTube by phatman23 on July 31, 2010:
"Life as a surgical resident."


COLORECTAL SURGEON VS HOSPITALIST

Uploaded to YouTuby by troymartin13 on August 02, 2010.


HOSPITALIST VERSUS CARDIOLOGIST (Happy strikes again!)

Uploaded to YouTube by dequervains on August 18, 2010: "Hospitalist battles the cardiologist as the Xtranormal medical specialty battle continues."



In addition to Specialty vs Specialty, there are a good number of "Typical ER Patient" creations that you should check out, most dealing with drug-seekers. Clearly, these good health care professionals need access to some serious means of decompression... I hope these vids are therapeutic for them.