When you live a small city and work in one of only two hospitals in the area, you tend to end up meeting....well, everyone.
I have been the nurse for city officials, local celebrities, other nurses and their families, and of course, physicians.
It used to intimidate me, caring for doctors, but hey, they're only people, right?
So what do you say when a retired doctor thanks you for the enema you just gave him because, as he said, "I couldn't dig the dang thing out. I tried for 3 hours."
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I'd be saying, "RAAAAAALPH!"
THANK YOU!! Nurses ROCK!! And in my experience, they've always treated me better than any doctor.
i would have asked him if he would have liked to borrow a trowel.
tex:
Another good blackmail item you have to add to your repetoire...or at least to the smirk category.
Obviously digital impaction removal wasn't taught to MDs when this guy went to school.
Glove, lube and spin that finger and 99% of your regular old nurses can make that go away. And for that pesky 1%, we throw the soap suds enemas at them.
This just proves that you really do deserve that "shoveling" award. Maybe I need that one, too...do way too much shoveling in rehab!
Shoulda told him to handle it like a mathematician:
Sit down and work the problem out with a pencil.
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