The Intern Experiment Ninja!

The life of a first year doctor... it's ups and downs and anything else random that happens.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

You know you're a doctor when...

You believe that all bleeding stops ... eventually.
You find humor in other people's stupidity.
You believe that 90% of people are a poor excuse for protoplasm.
Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal to you.
Your idea of fine dining is anywhere you can sit down to eat.
You get an almost irresistible urge to stand and wolf your food even in the nicest restaurants.
You plan your dinner break whilst lavaging an overdose patient.
Your diet consists of food that has gone through more processing than most computers.
You believe chocolate is a food group.
You refer to vegetables and are not talking about a food group.
You have the bladder capacity of five people.
Your idea of a good time is a cardiac arrest at shift change.
You believe in aerial spraying of Prozac.
You disbelieve 90% of what you are told and 75% of what you see.
You have your weekends off planned for a year in advance.
You encourage an obnoxious patient to sign a self discharge form so you don't have to deal with them any longer.
You believe that "shallow gene pool" should be a recognized diagnosis.
You believe that the government should require a permit to reproduce.
You believe that unspeakable evils will befall anyone who utters the phrase "Wow, it's really quiet isn't it".
You threaten to strangle anyone who even starts to say the "q" word when it is even remotely calm.
You say to yourself "great veins" when looking at complete strangers at the grocery store.
You have ever wanted to hold a seminar entitled "Suicide ... Doing It Right".
You feel that most suicide attempts should be given a free subscription to "Guns and Ammo" magazine.
You have ever had a patient look you straight in the eye and say "I have no idea how that got stuck in there".
You have ever had to leave a patient's room before you begin to laugh uncontrollably.
Your favorite hallucinogen is exhaustion.
You think that caffeine should be available in IV form.
You believe the waiting room should be equipped with a Valium fountain.
You play poker by betting ectopics on ECGs.
You want the lab to perform a "dropkick" screen.
You have been exposed to so many X-rays that you consider radiation a form of birth control.
You believe that waiting room time should be proportional to length of time from symptom onset.
Your most common assessment question is "what changed tonight to make it an emergency after 6 hours / days / weeks / months / years)?".
You have ever had a patient control his seizures when offered some food.
Your idea of gambling is an blood alcohol level pool instead of a football pool.
You shock someone with an unrecognizable rhythm ... until you get one you DO recognize.
You believe a book entitled 'Suicide: Getting it Right the First Time' will be your next project.
You call subcutaneous emphysema "Rice Bubbles".
Your immune system is so well developed that it has been known to attack squirrels in the backyard.

(adapted form a source for nurses but I think it's more applicable to doctors in ED in Australia)

1 Comments:

At 10:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

seems it's about time I introduced you to my new improved medicare system: I propose patients be charged according to presenting complaint. There could be a very neat waiting room computer with a list of options to choose from and an invoice to spill out at the end. For example: the condition "painful band and now raised spots around one side of my waist" equals say $2 (obviously shingles, cool condition, medical staff will flock to see, easy to treat and diagnose), however the condition "burning feet" will attract a fee of say $200 (irritating to diagnose and treat but probably not life threatening). Naturally "dizziness" and "tiredness" will both be where the big money lies

 

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