Since my work establishment is a large teaching institution, we always have observers, med students, nursing students, prospective employees, staff from other units, visiting doctors. They can be annoying for a variety of reasons even if they do nothing to make themselves annoying. They take up space in an environment when space is at a [...]
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I’ve posted about the Adonis, who I’m realizing now is perfect in every way. This is a tale of the Adonis and me. He was in the room observing and hadn’t scrubbed. I was circulating and had just plugged in suction and bovies when I looked around the room for the chart so I could [...]
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Once in a great while, we’ll get a good-looking resident or fellow. The nurses all take a peek and then unofficial polls make the rounds. The newest plastics fellow, though, has hit it out of the ballpark. By far the best-looking man I’ve ever seen work there, he’s an easy 10, even among the general [...]
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There’s so much that I wish I’d been writing, but logging in online is so arduous and I have yet to register MarsEdit, chiefly because I think it’s overpriced by about $10. But I had to share this nugget. Granted, I didn’t hear this first-hand, someone told me about it. One of May’s new general [...]
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I’ve been treated like an idiot by some people now for 2.5 years. In spite of some people’s efforts to keep me down (real or imagined), I have learned something. It showed itself today. After being tortured by being placed in ENT for the entire week, they put me in the Big Man’s room. The [...]
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I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings if that’s what occured. Surely, you must understand that when you asked if your co-resident was present during the last case and I said, “I don’t know” I truly meant it. Would it have made you happier if I had lied. You were looking for him, weren’t you? [...]
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I’m not necessarily quoting Jerry Maguire but everyone’s had occasion to think of a come-back and then say something entirely different. In my employment and for nurses everywhere, it’s a uncommonly frequent fact of life at work. When it comes to mean patients, insane families, and spoiled doctors sometimes it seems like every other exchange [...]
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Sunday, December 17, 2006
Afternoons are always hard to get through, especially if you’re the call person who’s had to stay late. It feels like everyone’s left and you’ve stayed behind on something like detention. What I especially hate is being sent from one room to another to another as the day winds down and people get done with [...]
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
It was just as the day shift was winding down and the two call people were informed their services would be needed until another room closed and they would be allowed to go home. Everyone hates staying late, but there’s no help for it. I was one of the two victims. I was even more [...]
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Silent Sally had just brought a child into the room with anesthesia waiting. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Angry Arnold who was to scrub the case had opened all utensils for the case but hadn’t progressed much farther than that. It was a laparascoptic case. Sally tried to ignore it, figuring [...]
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