“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
-Shakespeare
As an ER nurse you sometimes spend time trying to figure out and understanding what motivates people or more to the point what could possibly have been going through their minds when they do the things they do. On occasion I have been lucky enough to have some genuine insights into what make people tick so to speak.
But tonight as I sit here and review the news I have absolutely no idea what would motivate someone to enter a nursing home and willfully shoot not only a nurse in the course of their duties but 7 elderly residents sitting in their wheelchairs.
All I can say is WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Out of the mouth of the ignorant comes ignorance!
“Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something”
-Plato
Recently certain “personalities” (I will not dignify them by using their names) on the Fox news network took a few swipes at the Canadian Armed Forces and by extension the Government and people of Canada. These luminaries of the broadcast media decided that for the edification of their audience that they would make light this countries ongoing and steadfast commitment to the military efforts in Afghanistan. For those who are unaware of what that commitment is I’ll spare you the full details and sum it up in one short sentence:
As of today it’s a total of 116 body bags!
The reaction up here of course while predictable is also quite understandable.
Outrage!
I’ve heard a number of people out and about trying to make sense of these crass remarks and ultimately many quite sadly seem to be shrugging their shoulders and writing it off as another example of the stereotypical Americans being loud, boorish, uniformed and obnoxious. It’s a tempting and easy conclusion to make.
But my friends to do so would see us as not only individuals but as a nation paying an equally undeserved disservice to our American cousins.
If we must use the descriptors of loud, boorish, uniformed and obnoxious apply them instead to the deserving individual’s whose oafish conversation and so called wit spewed forth the offensive remarks not Americans in general.
I have worked both with Americans and in the U.S. itself in both civilian and military roles. Within my experience the average person I encountered was to say the least the epitome of manners, polite curiosity and respect to not only me as a soldier and a Canadian citizen, but anyone they spoke to regardless of where they happened to be from and what they did for a living. But let’s face the fact in any group of people there are always expectations, and the trash making up the fox program “Red Eye” on that particular night is an example of just that, the exception! They do not in my mind represent the thoughts our opinions of Americans in general.
So to the speakers on the night in question on the Red Eye program I ask what do you think would have happened to you had you taken a similar swipe at the brave men and women of your own military services who are brought home to rest and refit between combat tours? Do any of you have military experience that qualifies you to have an opinion on these types of affairs or are you simply just another bunch of bottom feeding cowardly couch jockeys so lacking in any other useful skills that this is the best you can do in life? Just wondering!
In the end and also quite predictable those involved just couldn’t shut up and had to make it worse with a half baked apology that was almost as insulting as their original remarks. So please in response to your response allow me to make a suggestion for your future remarks and shows. Consider limiting your comments to subjects you actually know something about. Of course if my present estimation of your respective intellects holds true that would mean we could all expect blessed silence in your time slot for the foreseeable future. I’d pay to watch that!
In closing and as a side note I offer the following to anyone interested in a quick read. It's an article I reprinted in a blog post last Remembrance Day when it was sent to me; it says more than I ever could! Keep in mind it was apparently written some time ago and the references to the 4 grieving families was sadly repeated once more just this weekend past.
A Salute to a Brave and Modest Nation LONDON –
Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a U.S. warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.
It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.
Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.
Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack.
More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth-largest air force in the world.
The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated -- a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.
So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality -- unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.
Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves -- and are unheard by anyone else -- that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces. Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth -- in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia.
Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace -- a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbor has given it in Afghanistan?
Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honorable things for honorable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun.
It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honor comes at a high cost. This week, four more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.
-Plato
Recently certain “personalities” (I will not dignify them by using their names) on the Fox news network took a few swipes at the Canadian Armed Forces and by extension the Government and people of Canada. These luminaries of the broadcast media decided that for the edification of their audience that they would make light this countries ongoing and steadfast commitment to the military efforts in Afghanistan. For those who are unaware of what that commitment is I’ll spare you the full details and sum it up in one short sentence:
As of today it’s a total of 116 body bags!
The reaction up here of course while predictable is also quite understandable.
Outrage!
I’ve heard a number of people out and about trying to make sense of these crass remarks and ultimately many quite sadly seem to be shrugging their shoulders and writing it off as another example of the stereotypical Americans being loud, boorish, uniformed and obnoxious. It’s a tempting and easy conclusion to make.
But my friends to do so would see us as not only individuals but as a nation paying an equally undeserved disservice to our American cousins.
If we must use the descriptors of loud, boorish, uniformed and obnoxious apply them instead to the deserving individual’s whose oafish conversation and so called wit spewed forth the offensive remarks not Americans in general.
I have worked both with Americans and in the U.S. itself in both civilian and military roles. Within my experience the average person I encountered was to say the least the epitome of manners, polite curiosity and respect to not only me as a soldier and a Canadian citizen, but anyone they spoke to regardless of where they happened to be from and what they did for a living. But let’s face the fact in any group of people there are always expectations, and the trash making up the fox program “Red Eye” on that particular night is an example of just that, the exception! They do not in my mind represent the thoughts our opinions of Americans in general.
So to the speakers on the night in question on the Red Eye program I ask what do you think would have happened to you had you taken a similar swipe at the brave men and women of your own military services who are brought home to rest and refit between combat tours? Do any of you have military experience that qualifies you to have an opinion on these types of affairs or are you simply just another bunch of bottom feeding cowardly couch jockeys so lacking in any other useful skills that this is the best you can do in life? Just wondering!
In the end and also quite predictable those involved just couldn’t shut up and had to make it worse with a half baked apology that was almost as insulting as their original remarks. So please in response to your response allow me to make a suggestion for your future remarks and shows. Consider limiting your comments to subjects you actually know something about. Of course if my present estimation of your respective intellects holds true that would mean we could all expect blessed silence in your time slot for the foreseeable future. I’d pay to watch that!
In closing and as a side note I offer the following to anyone interested in a quick read. It's an article I reprinted in a blog post last Remembrance Day when it was sent to me; it says more than I ever could! Keep in mind it was apparently written some time ago and the references to the 4 grieving families was sadly repeated once more just this weekend past.
A Salute to a Brave and Modest Nation LONDON –
Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a U.S. warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.
It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.
That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.
Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.
Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack.
More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth-largest air force in the world.
The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated -- a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.
So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality -- unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.
Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves -- and are unheard by anyone else -- that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces. Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth -- in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia.
Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia, in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace -- a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit.
So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbor has given it in Afghanistan?
Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac, Canada repeatedly does honorable things for honorable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun.
It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honor comes at a high cost. This week, four more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
From simple minds comes simple questions
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.”
-G.K. Chesterton
With governments at various levels investing billions upon billions of dollars to create or preserve good paying jobs here in Canada I have one question. Why does it appear that none of them are making concerted efforts to retrain and recruit the newly unemployed to switch to the allegedly “recession proof” occupations that make up health care?
Granted several have announced stable or increased funding to health care which as a self designated special interest person I see as a good thing. Plus to their credit as near as I can see they haven't cut any existing retraining programs for the unemployed, but in these cases as I under stand it those programs aren't specifically directed to health care to start with.
I suppose some possible explanations could be my own general lack of awareness or perhaps my google-foo is just so weak that I can't find anything substantive.
But that said I do find myself wondering if this is an excellent opportunity missed, or worse another example of the powers that be ignoring a long standing problem in favor of a more recent and visible crisis.
Perhaps it's just me who thinks since the government is so determined to create new retraining programs it would make sense to have one specifically geared to retraining people for health care jobs, especially since the government has decided to spend the money regardless if we the people agree or disagree with the idea.
-G.K. Chesterton
With governments at various levels investing billions upon billions of dollars to create or preserve good paying jobs here in Canada I have one question. Why does it appear that none of them are making concerted efforts to retrain and recruit the newly unemployed to switch to the allegedly “recession proof” occupations that make up health care?
Granted several have announced stable or increased funding to health care which as a self designated special interest person I see as a good thing. Plus to their credit as near as I can see they haven't cut any existing retraining programs for the unemployed, but in these cases as I under stand it those programs aren't specifically directed to health care to start with.
I suppose some possible explanations could be my own general lack of awareness or perhaps my google-foo is just so weak that I can't find anything substantive.
But that said I do find myself wondering if this is an excellent opportunity missed, or worse another example of the powers that be ignoring a long standing problem in favor of a more recent and visible crisis.
Perhaps it's just me who thinks since the government is so determined to create new retraining programs it would make sense to have one specifically geared to retraining people for health care jobs, especially since the government has decided to spend the money regardless if we the people agree or disagree with the idea.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
An opinion on the issue of healthcare reform
“Opinions have vested interests just as men have”
-Samuel Butler
It has been with considerable interest that I have been watching the reaction to proposed plans by the Obama administration in regards to healthcare reform in the media and on the blogosphere. Truthfully I decided to write about it this week because I am so seriously lacking any creative juices and this seems to be a less ponderous undertaking not to mention just being such an obvious target.
My first reaction to my little review of the various opinions around the topic in question was WOW, how little has changed in people rhetoric since the last time a democratic president suggested reform to healthcare. In fact it’s almost exactly the same! About the only substantive change I could actually detect was unlike when President Clinton stumbled into these shark infested waters all those years ago, we now have the blogosphere to read about it. Other than that it’s same old bullshit on both sides of the argument!
But without question the most disheartening thing I encountered was the tendency of some to try and use the Canadian health care system as an example of what can go wrong or to make the statement “do you want this?”
Okay Fair enough!
Feel free to use my countries health system as a whipping boy if you must because in some cases it’s a fair shot.
But that freely admitted I note that most people who where quick to draw the Canada card neglected to mention that some of the problems mentioned in regards to Canada’s "socialized" medical system also exist in most other industrialized countries health care systems regardless of if it’s a public or private model one is living or operating with.
But what really chapped my ass is the attempts by some to appear expert on the Canadian health system when they are obviously anything but.
Take some friendly advice, if the sum total of your knowledge about health care in Canada is because you managed to actually watch and not to sleep through a certain Michael Moore movie. Or your entire opinion is based on the fact that you know someone whose father’s mother’s dog spoke to guy who lives in Canada and say’s health care up here sucks, than my friend you don’t know jack! So stop acting, talking and writing like you do!
To close this rant off and just in case you haven’t already figured out where I sit on healthcare reform please allow me to summarize where I sit.
There is no such thing as a perfect health care system! But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to make something better regardless of where we live.
The reality is that despite what some will maintain regardless of the model presently in use no matter in what country, state, province, county or municipality we happen to be talking about it will have both strengths and weakness. To suggest that one system is somehow better than the other is to first ignore the problems of the system you’re promoting. Plus it implies that just because your particular system works for you that it will do the same for everyone else. Let me ask this, is anyone really so arrogant as to believe that’s actually the case? Is anyone foolish enough to think that the rest of the world is exactly like where you live and therefore the same solutions will apply?
Well just in case you do, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. The facts are the rest of the world is NOT like where you live no matter how much it may appear to be in your eyes. So stop thinking it is and more to the point stop thinking what ever system your presently stuck with is the end all to be all.
Lastly and certainly not least before anyone sends me still more hate mail or nasty comments and death threats make sure you understand what I’m saying here. I am not debating anyone’s right to express an opinion on this or any other topic. I am simply expressing my own response to some of your words and humbly suggesting that perhaps you consider taking sometime and getting a little more informed about both sides of the argument no matter what side of the fence you’re presently on.
That said if anyone can show me the model for a perfect health care system send it to me, I’ll be happy to drink deeply of that flavor of Kool-Aid!
-Samuel Butler
It has been with considerable interest that I have been watching the reaction to proposed plans by the Obama administration in regards to healthcare reform in the media and on the blogosphere. Truthfully I decided to write about it this week because I am so seriously lacking any creative juices and this seems to be a less ponderous undertaking not to mention just being such an obvious target.
My first reaction to my little review of the various opinions around the topic in question was WOW, how little has changed in people rhetoric since the last time a democratic president suggested reform to healthcare. In fact it’s almost exactly the same! About the only substantive change I could actually detect was unlike when President Clinton stumbled into these shark infested waters all those years ago, we now have the blogosphere to read about it. Other than that it’s same old bullshit on both sides of the argument!
But without question the most disheartening thing I encountered was the tendency of some to try and use the Canadian health care system as an example of what can go wrong or to make the statement “do you want this?”
Okay Fair enough!
Feel free to use my countries health system as a whipping boy if you must because in some cases it’s a fair shot.
But that freely admitted I note that most people who where quick to draw the Canada card neglected to mention that some of the problems mentioned in regards to Canada’s "socialized" medical system also exist in most other industrialized countries health care systems regardless of if it’s a public or private model one is living or operating with.
But what really chapped my ass is the attempts by some to appear expert on the Canadian health system when they are obviously anything but.
Take some friendly advice, if the sum total of your knowledge about health care in Canada is because you managed to actually watch and not to sleep through a certain Michael Moore movie. Or your entire opinion is based on the fact that you know someone whose father’s mother’s dog spoke to guy who lives in Canada and say’s health care up here sucks, than my friend you don’t know jack! So stop acting, talking and writing like you do!
To close this rant off and just in case you haven’t already figured out where I sit on healthcare reform please allow me to summarize where I sit.
There is no such thing as a perfect health care system! But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to make something better regardless of where we live.
The reality is that despite what some will maintain regardless of the model presently in use no matter in what country, state, province, county or municipality we happen to be talking about it will have both strengths and weakness. To suggest that one system is somehow better than the other is to first ignore the problems of the system you’re promoting. Plus it implies that just because your particular system works for you that it will do the same for everyone else. Let me ask this, is anyone really so arrogant as to believe that’s actually the case? Is anyone foolish enough to think that the rest of the world is exactly like where you live and therefore the same solutions will apply?
Well just in case you do, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. The facts are the rest of the world is NOT like where you live no matter how much it may appear to be in your eyes. So stop thinking it is and more to the point stop thinking what ever system your presently stuck with is the end all to be all.
Lastly and certainly not least before anyone sends me still more hate mail or nasty comments and death threats make sure you understand what I’m saying here. I am not debating anyone’s right to express an opinion on this or any other topic. I am simply expressing my own response to some of your words and humbly suggesting that perhaps you consider taking sometime and getting a little more informed about both sides of the argument no matter what side of the fence you’re presently on.
That said if anyone can show me the model for a perfect health care system send it to me, I’ll be happy to drink deeply of that flavor of Kool-Aid!
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
The dangers of sleep deprivation!
“I wasn’t really asleep I was just mediating on unconsciousness”
-Author Unknown
For some people one of the more unpleasant parts of being a nurse is the dreaded night shift.
Personally I’ve always preferred nights because for the most part there are less people like managers, doctors and families to slow me down or make my job generally harder to do. I also like nights because these days the truth of it is that at least in my neck of the woods the pay incentives to do so actually amount to something.
Bottom line for this Angry Nurse not only do I like night shifts,it’s all I work!
This is so much the case that even on my days off I maintain a night schedule. In fact for me 0400(4am for you non 24 hours clock types)is the same as 1600(4pm for you non 24 hours clock types).
I bring this up because one of my petty amusements is watching the “I hate nights” types struggle over the 0400 hump. These night haters will resort to any number of methods to stay awake sometimes with less success than others. Coffee is the rule for most, while others simply don’t stop moving. Keep this in mind just in case you someday find yourself in ER at night and wonder why certain nurses are circling like sharks.
But as previously mentioned sometimes despite the best laid plans things just don’t work out as intended. I have seen nurses fall asleep not only standing up, but while waiting on hold on the phone. In fact I once saw one poor girl actually strike her head on a desk because two minutes after she sat in a chair not only did she fall asleep, she fell over!
But my all time favorite sleep deprivation reaction occurred the other night. One of my colleagues who is not known for his love of nights was trying to bleary eyes and all dial the phone. Suddenly his eyes widened and he slammed the phone down. That action was followed by the equivalent of an Oh my god, and a chuckle. He then went on to explain that he had intended to dial the lab to add on some blood work but had instead dialed his home phone number where his wife who is also an ER nurse was in all likely hood sleeping contently.
Sadly he didn't actually mention if the phone had rang or not. But just the same the implications of his half asleep mistake offered a considerable number of amusing possibilities as to what could have happened if the phone had rung at his home, or perhaps worse what would have been his wife's reaction had she actually been woken up to answer.
Personally my money was on his loving wife rather than getting mad simply agreeing to do the blood work so she could find out later how long it took for him to figure it out that his add on blood work wasn't going to be done.
-Author Unknown
For some people one of the more unpleasant parts of being a nurse is the dreaded night shift.
Personally I’ve always preferred nights because for the most part there are less people like managers, doctors and families to slow me down or make my job generally harder to do. I also like nights because these days the truth of it is that at least in my neck of the woods the pay incentives to do so actually amount to something.
Bottom line for this Angry Nurse not only do I like night shifts,it’s all I work!
This is so much the case that even on my days off I maintain a night schedule. In fact for me 0400(4am for you non 24 hours clock types)is the same as 1600(4pm for you non 24 hours clock types).
I bring this up because one of my petty amusements is watching the “I hate nights” types struggle over the 0400 hump. These night haters will resort to any number of methods to stay awake sometimes with less success than others. Coffee is the rule for most, while others simply don’t stop moving. Keep this in mind just in case you someday find yourself in ER at night and wonder why certain nurses are circling like sharks.
But as previously mentioned sometimes despite the best laid plans things just don’t work out as intended. I have seen nurses fall asleep not only standing up, but while waiting on hold on the phone. In fact I once saw one poor girl actually strike her head on a desk because two minutes after she sat in a chair not only did she fall asleep, she fell over!
But my all time favorite sleep deprivation reaction occurred the other night. One of my colleagues who is not known for his love of nights was trying to bleary eyes and all dial the phone. Suddenly his eyes widened and he slammed the phone down. That action was followed by the equivalent of an Oh my god, and a chuckle. He then went on to explain that he had intended to dial the lab to add on some blood work but had instead dialed his home phone number where his wife who is also an ER nurse was in all likely hood sleeping contently.
Sadly he didn't actually mention if the phone had rang or not. But just the same the implications of his half asleep mistake offered a considerable number of amusing possibilities as to what could have happened if the phone had rung at his home, or perhaps worse what would have been his wife's reaction had she actually been woken up to answer.
Personally my money was on his loving wife rather than getting mad simply agreeing to do the blood work so she could find out later how long it took for him to figure it out that his add on blood work wasn't going to be done.
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