Wednesday, June 29, 2011

A Tribute to Scrappy Doo


Our team at work changes every year as residents rotate through. We usually become very fond of our residents, and are sad to see them go. After a glorious year, we recently said goodbye to our chief, Scrappy Doo (pseudonym used to protect the innocent).

Scrappy Doo is one of the hardest working, smartest, most dedicated residents we've had, and I'm confident he'll be a fabulous grown-up brain surgeon when he's through. To boot, he's just a great human being. He put up with a lot of teammate sass over the course of the year with good humor, and dished it back, too. He endured the ghetto-antics of The Hostile Center with composure. He's a lover and a fighter. Thanks, Scrappy Doo! You're the best!

Haiku for the day's work

Curmudgeonly tech
Won't let me externalize
Shunt without "time out"

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Banes of My Existence

Since I am working 65+ hours this week, and got saddled with the pager when my coworker didn't show up for work today, and my pager-tude is in full force, I'd like to share a list of people and things (by no means comprehensive, mind you) which annoy me. In no particular order:

The Pager
Getting saddled with The Pager when my coworker doesn't show up
The ER
The Blood Bank
MRI Technicians
Heat/Humidity
Bad Grammar
Air Travel
Codman shunt programmers
Therapeutic Anticoagulation
Bad Table Manners
Bad Analogies

Thanks for humoring me, devoted readers. Perhaps I'll share a list of people and things that I love next week.