Hey! I resent this post.
Notice: not personally directed at you

Do patients actually think the sister and the matron are able to stitch up a severed artery FFS?
"By that time I was just glad to have someone say they could do something rather than sounding like they were retching and running away to find some other poor sod to do the work."


They weren't freaking out and running away, grrr, they were running to get the best person for the job! It's not passing the buck to do something properly. They could deal with it fine: by getting the next person up.

This is one of the admittedly many reasons there is a nursing shortage in the US and the UK. People fully believe a college educated health professional would decide they were too grossed out to "deal with" a head wound and walk away from a patient, leaving his care to someone else. Can you see for an instant just a little bit of how insulting that is to us? And yet we still slog through blood and guts, helping people who think this little of us.

If you needed a life-saving hilarious post, would you go to me? No, you would go to Legless, emadex, Scaryduck or chickenlady or rachelswipe or BGP or Pooflake or Rob or Citadel or chnonthic or any of a gazillion of our other fucking brilliant posters. It's simply a matter of using your resources properly...

takes her huff and stomps away in it

Apologies for length tantrum
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 1:51, Reply)