acknowledging a let-down

[lostsnowbird]

This journal is fast becoming my on-call diaries. Sitting up late at night at the hospital as I round out my 19th hour of the work day inspires some reflection, albeit negative. I'm in week 11 of my 12 week surgery rotation and I'm left with a lot of pretty personal questions that I can't answer but would be foolish to ignore. On the one hand, I

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[mastaodaunivers]

Funny story-a PA bitched at me on the phone today. I thought about telling him that my goal was to be a PA but I felt he would have said, "Good luck, you idiot!" since I was having a hard time understanding what his question was since he was afraid to admit that he actually needed info/my help. Ughh egomaniacs are everywhere! I'm so sorry you had a bad day.
I will leave you with a few corny surgery jokes. Don't take it too seriously!

How many surgeons does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

One--he/she just holds it up and the world revolves around him/her.

Airplane full of people is buzzing along through the sky and all of a sudden there's some turbulence and one of first class passengers stabs himself in the leg while cutting his porterhouse and blood starts spraying up in to the air.

A levelheaded stewardess picks up the intercom and asks if there's a surgeon on board. A guy a few seats over stands up and approaches the man.

I'm a surgeon," he says. and starts prepping the man's leg for the procedure. The man is writhing in pain.

The surgeon stops for a moment and says to the stewardess, "I'm gonna need an anesthesiologist."

The stewardess picks up the intercom again and says, "Is there an anesthesiologist on board?"

A moment later a breathless man rushes up and announces, "I'm an anesthesiologist, what can I do to help?"

The surgeon looks at him and says, "Can you adjust that light for me?"

TOP TEN THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR IN SURGERY

1 Don't worry. I think it is sharp enough.

2 Nurse, did this patient sign the organs donation card?

3 Damn! Page 84 of the manual is missing!

4 Everybody stand back! I lost a contact lens!

5 Hand me that...uh...that uh.....thingie

6 Better save that. We'll need it for the autopsy.

7 "Accept this sacrifice, O Great Lord of Darkness"

8 Whoa, wait a minute, if this is his spleen, then what's that?

9 "Ya know, there's big money in kidneys. Hell, he's got two of'em

10 What do you mean "You want a divorce?"