Humor

Respiratory Therapy Humor: 
The following is common humor heard in various RT Caves around the world. The opinions expressed belong to the various authors, and do not represent the views of the institutions they work for, nor the RT Cave.  Most posts involve generalizations.  Any resemblance to persons living or dead is merely coincidental. 

1. Real Physician's Creed
2. Fake 'Olins
3. More Fake 'Olins
4. Albuterol: Not just for bronchospasm anymore
5. It's a hoax folks: Hoaxanex
6. Ativan Nebs:  A treatment whose time has come
7. Exageration of asthma: staticus asthmaticus
8. Study: Ventolin Shown to Prolong Life
9. Ventolin linked to EKGs
10. Ventolin now indicated for low pressure
11. A couple new diseases
12. Rhonchi-eeeeeeeeze
13. New Ventolin prolongs life -- forever!!
14. New Super Strength Ventolin discovered
15. Ventolin now a productive mucus thinner
16. New Study: Xoponex now a humidifier
17. Asthma versus Fatsma
18. A world where doctors are trained by RTs
19. Here's how it's determined how to treat patients
20. Catsma

Humor Lexicons:

1. Faux Respiratory Therapy
2. Faux Hospital Administration
3. Faux Diagnosis Lexicon
4. Abbreviation Slang
5. Doctors 
6. Types of patients
7. Types of doctors
8. Types of nurses
9. Types of Asthmatics 

Breathing Treatments:

1. New 'olin washes pneumonia right out of alveoli
2. New brand of Ventolin now increases potassium
3. New types of Vent-'olin discovered
4. New indication for Albuterol Nebulizers
5. Bronchodilator Osmosis
6. Quote of the day -- Imaginary wheezes
7. Faux priorities of RTs, and how to prioritize
8. Q4ever treatments
9. A nebulizer is not a microphone
10. Here's what you chart when you're forced to miss a treatment  
11. Ventolin:  The second coming of Christ
12. Annoying LS Buterol
13. Deflatolin
14. Acid-uterol
15. Treat Hypercapnea with Hypoxolin
16. Alcuriol for lungsounds: Fake advertisement
17. Fake ventolin theories I've actually heard 
18. Ventolin rids body of evil spirits and demons

Respiratory Therapists:

1. Things only an RT would say
2. We need a panic button on our beepers/ phones
3. The RT Cave in the year 2020
4. 3 types of lethal arryhthmias
5. An RT Wisdom Test
6. What would be different if RTs ran the show
7. Respiratory therapy fun and games
8. Super RT
9. We RTs are now Internal Therapists
10. Here's a great reason why RTs are NEEDED
11. Ventolin Insurance 
12. The Butt Buzzers are coming
13. What is work?
14. Snot's easy, so be an RT
15. To keep a tomato alive you must continue CPR

Nurses: 

1. Types of nurses
2. Ways RNs can iritate RTs
3. RN Cave Rule #62
4. Three different types of baby cries
5. 17 Ridiculous indications for Tylenol

Hospital:

1. Things you don't want to hear in a hospital
2. Signs that assume we are lazy and stupid
3. How to become a career patient
4. First come charting, then come patient
5. Fake hospital advertisement
6. Farting is funny

Respiratory Therapy Apathy:

1. Respiratory Therapy Apathy Syndrome
2. Solution to RT Apathy
3. RT Apathy sign of greater problem
4. I'm infested with RATS  
5. Respiratory Therapy Depression
6. Meet Dave, the apathetic RT

RT Creed Products:

1. The Amazing: Telebiokinetosphere
2. The Amazing Wheezoscope
3. The Amazing Grumpometer
4. The Amazing Telekinoscope
5. The Amazing GPSoscope 
6. GLAS GPSoscope
7. Panic Button on Beeper
8. Lab test for bronchospasm 
9. Wrist Pulse Oximeter
10. Flavored Ventolin

MCAT Questions:
Questions from the pre-med test regarding respiratory therapy in order to qualify a physician for admission to the esoteric medical society, and access to the Real Physician's Creed.  

1. MCAT question #32
2. MCAT question #33
3. MCAT question #34
4. MCAT question #35
5. MCAT question #36
6. MCAT question #37
7. MCAT question #38
8. MCAT question #39
9. MCAT question #40
10. MCAT question #41
11. MCAT question #42
12. MCAT question #43
13. MCAT question #44
14. MCAT question #45
15. MCAT question #46
16. MCAT question #47
17. MCAT question #48
18. MCAT question #49
19. MCAT question #50
20. MCAT question #51
21. MCAT question #52
22. MCAT question #53
23. MCAT question #54
24. MCAT quesiton #55 

Patients:

1. The carbon copy blue bloater
2. Treatment plan for man with a lung tumor
3. The five different types of COPD patients
4. Have you seen this patient???
5. Stereotypical patient
6. Thief of nebs
7. What is a slug patient?
8. Cat causes low SpO2?

Outside links worth visiting:

Links often become inactive over time

1. RTLyrics.com
2. RTs, you gotta watch these
3. The seven dwarves of the ICU (sadly, this is no longer available)
4. The frequent flyer club
5. RTs -vs- RNs
6. The naked, the fat and the dead
7. Musants
8. Video of the week:
9. Here's why it's easier just to do the treatment (video link)