April 27th, 2008
“This is our first full week of using the pasties during mammograms,” the X-ray tech explained. “I wake up with nightmares that I’ll forget to take one off of a 90-year-old nun one day and she’ll end up in the E.R. and they’ll find her with pasties and wonder what’s going on in the convent!”
March 13th, 2008
Yes, real medicine is about — sometimes — very odd, very rare disorders, but most of the time, things are boring, run-of-the-mill stuff. The staff in an emergency room, often well-versed in handling all sorts of medical issues, such as anything from a pencil eraser in a six-year-old’s ear canal to someone who fell from atop an eight-story building and is impaled with what was a 14-foot steel rod that’s sliced its way through the person’s body on an angle, and is not just over six feet long because the fire department had to cut the pole to a size that could be handled in an ambulance. Yep, typical run-of-the-mill stuff.
