i have just been sitting here half an hour before the end of my shift and had a good chuckle to myself after reading this. Thank you for giving me back my sense of humour.

Annie

Hay...thats me!! How did they know??

countrygirl75426 said:

1. Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal
to you.
2. Your idea of a good time is a full code at shift change.
3. You find humor in other people's stupidity.
4. You believe in the aerosol spraying of Prozac.
5. Your idea of comforting a child is placing them in a papoose restraint.
6. You believe that "Shallow gene pool" should be a diagnosis.
7. You believe that the government should require a permit to reproduce.
8. You believe unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says, "Boy it
sure is quiet here!"
9. You have ever referred to a patient death as a transfer to the
eternal care unit.
10. When out in public you compliment a stranger on their great veins.
11. You hate to work the night shift when there is a full moon.
12. You ever wanted to leave a patient's room before you began laughing
uncontrollably.
13. You think caffeine should be in IV form.
14. Your most commonly muttered phrase after midnight is "what changed
after 2am that makes this an emergency after 6 months?"
15. You believe "too stupid to live" should be a diagnosis.
16. When you mention vegetables you are not referring to a food group.
17. You have your weekends off marked and planned for.
18. You not only wash your hands after the restroom, but before also.
19. You use bandage scissors to clip coupons.
20. You are the only one at the table not allowed to talk about their
day at work.
21. You baste your Thanksgiving turkey with a 60 cc syringe.
22. You suggest which meds and labs you need when you visit the doctor.
23. You think pizza and a diet soda are a suitable meal.
24. You act as if you won the lottery when you see urine flowing from a
newly placed catheter.
25. You mentally assess your friends and coworkers.
26. You believe that nothing short of a cardiac arrest is a true emergency.
27. You wolf down food in record time, even at a fancy restaurant.
28. Your recurring nightmare is that a portable xray machine is about
to run you over.
29. You yell out diagnosis while watching medical dramas on tv.
30. You know its a full moon without looking at the sky.
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This is funny...crazy thing is, is most of them are completely true! I do find myself trying to decipher the medical diagnoses on House a lot, and when I used to watch ER, I'd do the same...BTW lenix, I'm a believer in gov't licensing for reproduction as the Dx's: "shallow end of the gene pool", and "too stupid to live" seem to run rampant in this country.

#20 definately applies to me. I am not allowed under any circumstances to talk about my day during mealtimes. If I am alone with my mother then we can talk (she's a retired nurse) , but if my dad is in the room we cannot talk about anything medical because he has a very weak stomach. And it would be sooooooo wonderful if caffeine would come in IV form.

Those are so true. I look at my friends veins and stangers all the time. It is like men with boobs; my eyes go straight to their veins in their arms.

When my fiancee goes to the doctor, I always say to get these tests done and tell him this and that. Funny