The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️
@theplotdoc
Here to nerd out and advocate for accurate medical portrayals in fiction. Board Certified ER Doc with a degree in Classics. Writer. PLOT DOC. Disclaimer: Not professional medical/criminal advice. ONLY to be used by fiction writers for make-believe
…and I’m wearing my Iliad shirt to the Odyssey Guess I should have bought a new shirt
Me: “Hey, 4, don’t eat all the blueberries. Make sure to save some for tomorrow!” 4: “Ok!”…
So, I guess the post office has just given up on posting actual prices these days Prices $ $$ $$$
I now have a 50% chance of lifting the coveted Lego World Cup Bracket Trophy in my work pool
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL [WO]MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL
In case you were wondering what the ticket stub Lincoln was holding when he got Boothed in a booth at the Ford Theater, it looked like this
My 4yo went to the Tim Burton school of illustration Yes, there are two suns Yes, they are both black
Out for a run. Ran out of water and my wife kindly pointed out a water fountain location with this super sexy mappy map diagram
He’s bringing the circuses, but refuses the people bread. “Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; the people … longs eagerly for just two things—-Bread and Circuses!” — Juvenal, Satire X #USA
I saw a patient who came in one month after he had fallen and broken his hip because he didn’t have insurance For a month his family carried him from the bed to the bathroom One Month His surgery, hospitalization, and rehab will now cost more money because we as a country suck giant monkey balls
Rumors of epic Southern California swells are greatly exaggerated.
Insurance companies struggle to find physicians willing to be paid to use their likeness in advertising. It’s quite telling that this pediatrician isn’t even willing to use her last name to limit blowback
There are no private beaches in California But that doesn’t mean you can’t have privacy
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: Inadequate respiratory effort in patients with OBESITY causing elevated carbon dioxide levels and low blood oxygen This leads to: - Increased heart strain causing LEG SWELLING - DAYTIME SLEEPINESS