Phone out of order

Due to continued abuse, phone communications are suspended until further notice, effective immediately. This is due to another incident involving an apparently extremely stubborn sister of a female member of our party, her second offense against the phone code in a row and another hissy fit of mine.

In other news, tonight's shift was, like skriehma indicated, very sociable with basically all my (and presumably skriehma's) favorite residents on shift and a lot of fun. I also found fetal heart tones by myself and stuck a needle between someone's vertebrae for the first time.

Right now we're watching reruns of ER on TV, which is so much more fun now knowing the intricacies of the ED's inner workings, with students, interns, residents, attendings, consults, the actual smell of the bums they bring in, the "feel" of a real code and hundreds of other details. It's - who would have guessed - not quite as dramatic in real life, where everybody goes back to business really quickly when a patient expired - and, thankfully, attendings, residents and especially medstudents are NOT ambulating encyclopedias as they appear to be on the show. In many other regards, ER is a realistic show and still fun to watch, mostly, of course, the earlier seasons.