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You Might Be An ER Physician/Nurse If...
The following material is copyrighted by Michael Seaver, RN, EMT, and may not be reproduced without his permission.
- you believe 90% of people are a poor excuse for protoplasm.
- discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal to you.
- you believe a good tape job will fix anything.
- you have the bladder capacity of five normal people.
- you can identify the positive teeth to tattoo ratio.
- your idea of a good time is a full arrest at shift change.
- you find humor in other people's stupidity.
- you believe in aerial spraying of Prozac.
- you disbelieve 90% of what you are told and 75% of what you see.
- you have your weekends off planned a year in advance.
- when a patient presents with a list of medicine allergies you automatically assume they are a drug seeker or a patient of Dr. Solotkin.
- your idea of comforting a child is to place them in a papoose restraint.
- you encourage an obnoxious patient to sign out AMA so you don't have to deal with them any longer.
- you believe that "Shallow Gene Pool" should be a diagnosis.
- you believe the govt should require a permit to reproduce.
- you plan your dinner while performing gastric lavage.
- you believe that "Ask-A-Nurse" is an evil plot thought up by Satan.
- you believe that unspeakable evil will befall you if the phrase "Wow, it's really quiet" us uttered.
- you refer to Friday as "Dump Day".
- your diet consists of food that has undergone more processing than most computers.
- you believe chocolate is a food group.
- when someone calls you a bastard, you take it as a compliment.
- when you are out in public you compliment a complete stranger on their good veins.
- you have ever referred to someone's death as a transfer to the "Eternal Care Unit".
- you don't think a referral to Dr. Kevorkian is inappropriate.
- you have ever referred to someone's death as a "Celestial Discharge".
- you have ever answered a "lost condom" phone call (See "Ask-A-Nurse" above.)
- you refer to someone in respiratory distress as a "Smurf".
- your idea of a really good time is Duelling Shock Rooms.
- you have ever wanted to hold a seminar entitled "Suicide... Getting it right".
- you believe that "Too Stupid to Live" should be a diagnosis.
- you have ever had to leave a patients room before you began laughing uncontrollably.
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