I thought I would tell you all an amusing story. There is a unit secretary with the first name of Ricki and I have now dubbed her Ricki Bobbi. Let me describe Ricki Bobbi she is a 55 y/o caucasion woman weighing 186 lbs and is 4'10" inches tall. She wears the exact same navy blue skirt everymorning has a lower lip that protrudes just like a chimpanzee. Her hair style borders very close to the female mullet but not as long as the classic mullet. Apparently she has worked here since the civil war and knows more about medicine than Osler.
This tale starts out with my search for a chart, a task I loathe in the morning. After several minutes I find my chart and it is opened up on a desk with a medicine team standing around it like they just finished with chart. So I go over and ask one of my fellow interns if they are done wiht the chart and he responds they are not using it. So I pick up the chart and take it to a quiet corner of the floor and begin my Pulmonary note for the day. About 3 minutes into the note I discover a large disturbance on the floor and I can make out that Ricki Bobbi is upset her lip is out quite further than normal, she is red in the face, and she is wobbling around as quick as possible looking for something. 30 seconds later I see Ricki Bobbi and she is coming straight at me, it takes her only 5 seconds to wobble over and stops 12 inches from me. I respond hello Ricki, where she yells "who's chart do you have?" Mr. So and So I respond, she then says you have stolen that from me what are you thinking. Apparently she had pulled an order sheet off and went to the fax machine to send it off. I told her I had aske the medicine team if they were done and thought they were using the chart. Apparently she did not listen to me because she asked if I thought it was OK to steal things. I said, Ricki if you were using the chart I'm sorry, let me just get my note out and you can have it. After getting my note out Ricki Bobbi snatched the chart and started away when all of sudden she turned around and asked my name, Dr. Glover I told her, I thought she was going to spit in my face. She turns around to leave for the second time without a word then five steps later she spins back around. There is a rule of no eating or drinking in Pt. care areas and one of the nurses had a big Pepsi they were drinking and it was next to me. She shouted IS THAT YOUR PEPSI. I responded Ricki Bobbi that is not my Pepsi, she was beside herself. OK I did not really call her Ricki Bobbi but I was thinking it. I wanted to ask her if she had a son with the name "Walker" or "Texas Ranger".
But Ricki Bobbi spent the next several hours relating this episode to several other of Ricki Bobbi's cohorts because they could visibly detect how unsettled she was, where she responded that she had a something stolen by a new intern.
So Rob the other intern on my team and I have started to give nicknames to some people after I told him of Tarmack, Fake Tarmack, Terminator, and Blackwidow to list a few. So we have Ricki Bobbi and Captian Obvious. Captain Obvious is another intern that is a DO doing radiology at the Cleveland Clinic or just the Clinic as he calls it. Captain Obvious is another story for another day. But come on guys lets hear those nicknames. See ya. My month for Night Float has started and I am on CVICU so I need to go give 15 milimoles of phos????
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If she gives you any more trouble, I'll be on her like a spider monkey.
Shake and bake, Dave.
I'm wanting to hear the story about Captain Obvious. It's gotta be a good story.
Boy, between Bingham, Rob, and Brent, we've come up with a bunch of nicknames at our program....but remembering all of them on the spot is like trying to give a urine sample with the nurse standing in the room next to you-you know you've got it in you, but you just can't get it out. Jeremy (Rumblestrip) has been coined Scuba Steve and the Junkie. We have an attending Captain Anal. I'll try to remember the others.
Scuba Steve was a name I brought up so I am not sure that counts. Great story though, I can really see the HUC freaking out. I agree with Adam, I would like to hear the captain O story.
-Rumblefish
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