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Posts Tagged ‘hospital’

Doctor’s Orders

Posted: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

doctor-gift-medical-giftThey’re stocking candy canes at the grocery store, and our local Bed Bath & Beyond’s got plush singing rabbis (I’m not making this up), so that must mean the holidays are near. Gearing up for the holiday season before Thanksgiving fills me with disgust, but being the gut-monger I am, I suppose I must jump aboard the holiday retail bandwagon and remind you to check out our Gutsy Gift Guide. It’ll tell you what to buy if your best friend is getting a mammogram, or just the thing for your diabetic brother. There’s even a sebaceous gland lapel pin for that diligent cosmotologist who got rid of all those zits for ya. Our handy list will help you find just what the doctor ordered for that marvelous nurse, amazing pediatrician, or that special medical student in your life. So take two lapel pins and call us in the morning.

Does That Nurse Look Slightly Devilish To You?

Posted: Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

picture-1Granted, they’re only happy because they’ve got a smile painted onto their plastic faces, but they’re nonetheless thrilled to be recouperating in Playmobil Hospital. I remember loving the older, crapper version back in the 80s, and if you’re like me, you’ll be impressed by how much better the new one is. We’re talking mini-defibrillators, an elevator, medical charts and all kinds of other stuff. Hopefully someone will hack it and make things a little more gory, kind of like this.

Watch Your Meds

Posted: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

There seems to be no end to medical dramas, medical procedurals and just plain ol’ medical general-interest television shows overall, as the new TV season begins. If you’re not watching Private Practice, you might be absorbed by tonight’s season premiere of House, sniffling over the last season of ER, learning about post-op gastric bypass patients on The Doctors (this one’s got real live doctors in it), or checking out Grey’s Anatomy.  Noticing all the billboards for these shows around town made me wonder why people are so hungry for shows about medicine. The drama and mystery involved in medicine make it a natural subject for television, of course. But I also wonder if the universal subject matter — we could all fall ill or get hurt at any moment, plus most of us have spent time in a hospital for one reason or another — also makes for popular tubeage. Anyway, who the hell knows?

 
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