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People often do anything to get out of work. Faking illness, faking injuries, sabotaging something, calling in bomb threats, you name it. The other day we had a fire alarm go off at night. 99% of the time it is a false alarm or a test of the system. This time as I was talking to a [...]
I recently noticed this “board” on one of the numerous hallways leading from our emergency dept. This hallway is not used by the general public and is pretty narrow. Turns out it’s been up there for months. I guess no one in our dept is very distinctive. I am concerned however about how the staff morale will [...] The term “surgical misadventure” always kind of cracked me up. It sounds silly and in a way totally minimizes what really should be termed an “inadvertent blunder” or a “f*ck up”. Anyway, recently we had one in the ER that while technically not “surgical”, was nonetheless an invasive procedue gone wrong. Luckily, the outcome [...] The town, well barely a village really, where we are staying these two weeks has a gas station, a pharmacy, a bank, a liquor store, and amazingly, a hospital. It is cute and quaint with 60+ beds including a 3 bed ICU. I found a brochure on the place at the pharmacy and flipped through the [...] I have heard the stereotypes. ER doctors dress like crap. ( I think Nurse K has chimed in on the fact that her ER docs might be mistaken for either homeless people or Grateful Deadheads) Not true across the board, but yeah, many of us enjoy being casual. I remember saying I had [...]
Recently I had an unpleasant interaction with a fellow doctor. However, I would like to distance my self as much as possible from him despite our shared career. Thus, I find it hard to even refer to him with the “Dr” prefix. Anyway, following my recent fuming about a [...] |
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