3:00AM. Bedside of somnolent patient. Intern and senior resident in side conversation about the patient’s poor kidney function, whether her kidneys could tolerate a load of contrast dye for a computed tomography scan, and the costs and benefits of obtaining said data. Somnolent patient looks up.

“What’s ‘punk-ass dye‘?”

When on call, you have to take the chipper moments as they come.

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Posted in Medicine, On the Wards on Thu Jan 25, 2007 at 2:42 pm by alex | 1 Comment