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Seems like IT chose a random time to remove it and it appeared between posts. So don't worry smq, you can type bitch all you want (sort of).
AWESOME!
Seems like IT chose a random time to remove it and it appeared between posts. So don't worry smq, you can type bitch all you want (sort of).
With great power comes great responsibility...
<whining> Winged!! Blade's raining on my parade, again! Make him stop!
Don't worry, Blade. I'll keep myself in check. I promise.
Although I considered it to possibly be a nursing conspiracy where fab4fan was able to type bitch and the poor medical student (smq123) could not, we had discussed removing it from the filter (its still a TOS violation if you use it to insult someone), and it is now gone.
Seems like IT chose a random time to remove it and it appeared between posts. So don't worry smq, you can type bitch all you want (sort of).
I thought maybe it was the coolness of my Bob Dylan avatar that gave me the power to use the "B" word.
I thought maybe it was the coolness of my Bob Dylan avatar that gave me the power to use the "B" word.
Is THAT who that is? I thought it was some frumpy hausfrau!!
j/k
You mean that's not Andy Samberg?
Well, you are just dead to me. And just when I was beginning to think you were a nice guy.
Holy cow, I thought it was Andy Samberg too. Whoops.
So, what's the deal with wearing only certain scrubs into the OR? I got into it with some nurses on a surgical rotation because I went into the OR with my blue scrubs on, instead of green.
The entire thing about wearing only scrubs that have been laundered in their facilities is kinda bunk.
It's a power trip. Lots of the nurses in our OR refuse to let us wear outside shoes into the OR without shoe covers, heaven forbid you walk back there with street clothes or gasp, your white coat. However, they continue to wear whatever floweredy pink/purple/green/blue scrubs they want from home, without any retribution. Simply because the nurses want something to hold over us.
It's a power trip. Lots of the nurses in our OR refuse to let us wear outside shoes into the OR without shoe covers, heaven forbid you walk back there with street clothes or gasp, your white coat. However, they continue to wear whatever floweredy pink/purple/green/blue scrubs they want from home, without any retribution. Simply because the nurses want something to hold over us.
I was wearing hospital issued BLUE scrubs that I'd washed at home. He had on the special hospital issued GREEN scrubs he'd washed at home. Right, germs don't stick to green, I forgot...
They demand that I gown up in this crazy white jumpsuit...I have always put the shoe covers and the hat on (like they do)...They jumped on me "you are all over the hospital, we stay here"
really??
the OR eats 3 squares in the cafeteria, gets their own pts from the floors, and go outside to their smoke breaks, but I have to war the jumpsuit??
nazis
Not too mention their poor adherence to basic handwashing, habit of hanging their nose over the top of their masks, and constant rubbing against the back table sterile top.
That's so true...why do they do that? It looks idiotic.
No horror stories, but if I get an excessive amount of attitude toward myself or the student I think its grounds to let the student close all incisions.
I've had a pretty good relationship with scrub techs and OR nurses so far, but just last week I got really pissed off at a rep from some prosthesis company. I'm rotating on neurosurgery, about to do an interspinous device placement, the OR's ready, and everyones waiting because they can't bring the patient back to the room--he wants to talk to the attending yet again about potential complications. I walk in and there are two reps in the room, getting antsy because the patient's not there. One of them turns to me and says condescendingly, "What's the holdup? Go get things moving!" I glare at him and tell him we're waiting for the attending. What a douche.
She was a pretty flashy dresser, and wore designer sunglasses the entire time in the OR. Which was just annoying.
Exactly.
I may not say anything at the time, but I remember every single scrub tech who's ever abused me (from med school on) and you can be sure there's no love lost between me and those people.
They'll get theirs. I believe in karma.
You are kidding, right?
It's nice when an outside force can draw the entire OR into complete harmonious hatred of an outsider.
(Its been a slow night, including a computer crash for several hours...)
I couldn't help but remember your post when I saw this:
Nice!
roja said:Not that I have a secret horde of surgeons or anything.
If you did, that'd be a first...an EM-G Surg collaboration!
Not really a scrub tech related story, but during my OB rotation, I had this attending who, whenever I was doing a C-section with him, would slap my hand once or twice with a set of Mayo scissors if he didn't like the way I was doing something. In this case, I didn't really mind because I knew he wasn't really trying to be an a$$, he was just trying to teach me something. He was one of the attendings that actually cared about us med students learning something. So that would be another context in which I didn't really mind getting my hand slapped.
As he was cackling like a demented old goblin with neurosyphilis, I looked into his glowing red eyes and
seriously, Dre, that was damn poetic. Where you been in all of my (posting) life?
The funny (terrible?) thing about that story is that it's absolutely true. I took some poetic license with the adjectives, but it really happened. And the whole time, I knew the guy was going to pop the expander in my face (thankfully I was wearing one of the masks with the face shields); but I also knew I needed the guy's help to get into PRS, so I had to let him have his fun. I'm not kidding about him being an old-school guy, either. He's both famous and infamous in plastic surgery circles. I'm not sure if his help put me over the top getting into integrated plastics, but if I'd pissed him off he damn sure could have kept me out.
Man that was a few thousand dollars dumped in the garbage with a stab of a scalpel....
That really was well written.
But why do you have a pic of Tupac and the name of Dre?
I wonder how the rap game would be different if 2Pac were still around?