Thank FFFF it’s Christmas

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We celebrate the festive season with a DOUBLE edition of FFFF and an eclectic mix of festive related questions to amuse and bemuse….

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Draw near, and gather round the wireless for this very Christmas edition of Funtabulous medical trivia. We celebrate the twelve days of Christmas with an eclectic mix of festive related questions to amuse and bemuse….

Santa lives… again!

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Santa lives… again. Is he a euletide Schrodinger’s cat? Read how he survived zombification, reaped the benefits of the ME and ELF health plan and instituted new work practices to ensure that the Christmas show goes on.

The Death of Santa Claus

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Disturbing news is coming from Enlightenment Boulevard where the UCEM Council Executive has recently received reports of the death of Santa Claus.

Journals go Christmas Crazy

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It is tradition for doctors to descend into a state of inane infatuation with esoteric in-jokes, trifling trivia and medical mockery as seasonal silliness reaches its Christmas crescendo. Nowhere is this more evident than the annual hospital Christmas Quiz, an institution perpetuated throughout the anglocentric medical world, or the ‘Christmas issues’ of the British Medical Journal and the Medical Journal of Australia.

Emergency Christmas Gifts

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It may feel like the sands of time are fast running through your fingers, but there is still time to buy emergency Christmas gifts for your favourite emergency physician. Here is the official list of UCEM-approved ‘Christmas Gifts for the Emergency Department’.

Empathy Pills are Wearing Off

Just go through the blue door...the blue door...the f#$%ing blue door

‘Tis a time for lost amoebic souls to congregate in ethereal pools of tranquil healing and join hands to synaptically and engage in flashes of conversation fuelled by the broth of malted yeast….

Bells Jingle Around the World

In a flourish of Utopian Christmas spirit we at Life in the Fast Lane embrace all cultural displays of festive positivity. Having demonstrated the Aussie Rusty Holden Ute, it is only fair that we travel further afield for some more great examples of Jingle Bell Joy

Christmas Cancellation Canned

Santa Claus has agreed to clean up his act.

The Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine has made an urgent press release: Christmas will NOT be canceled!

Christmas Canceled?

Egerton Y. Davis the Fourth, spokesperson for the Council Executive of the Utopian College for Emergency in Medicine, has announced that UCEM intends to cancel Christmas. He stated reluctantly: ”Tis not the season to be jolly, ’tis the season to be horrifically injured”.