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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