Jul 19, 2019
"It's okay not to have friends but do not have 'enemies' within the hospital".
Our Consultant during morning ward rounds
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"It's okay not to have friends but do not have 'enemies' within the hospital".
Our Consultant during morning ward rounds
From the medical consultant:
The best thing about alcohol hand rubs in hospitals isn't the hygiene, but that everyone walks around like they're hatching a dastardly plan
sage advice.
From a patient during ward rounds: "Now, don't you go to too many discos this weekend, girls and boys!"
people you meet in hospital: the showboating registrar.
Go on ward rounds with him and you'll only be acknowledged when he wants to show off his knowledge of (usually eponymously-named) rare signs and symptoms. "What's Homan's sign? Hugh-Fitz-Curtis syndrome? Courvoisier's law?" he'll ask, leaving you perplexed and flipping frantically through the pages of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine to find some semblance of an answer.
But don't worry. No one else in the room will know what he's talking about either. Which is good, because you really shouldn't mention what Courvoisier's law is in front of a patient.