Wednesday, January 02, 2008

doing our job



Doctor: I'm going to ignore the troponin, there's no evidence of heart trouble
Nurse: What do you mean you're going to ignore the trop, it's up
Doctor: It's been up before, he has no chest pain or ECG changes
Nurse: What is it normally? 0.28? this is high, have you talk to someone?
Doctor: Yes, but he has no chest pain, no ECG changes, I talked to a consultant, a chemical pathologist to get a Trop T done.
Nurse: So who are you?
Doctor: I'm the medical registrar, he won't arrest on you in the middle of the night
Nurse: Oh... ok, have you documented all this?
Doctor: Yes i have, here you go. Do you want my home number just in case?
Nurse: Yes doctor! haha..

You can't blame the nurse for being annoying, she's doing her job, afterall, despite in a very confrontational manner.

Everyone is better off with a laugh.

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