Thursday, January 15, 2004
Spacefan Vs Re-minisce
It's just struck me what the real difference between spacefan and myself is.
Spacefan's an ER doctor.
I'm a casualty doctor.
Over in Singapore everything's slick, shiny spandex. (ok maybe no spandex, bugger.)
Here in the UK it's a battlefield... us vs management, us vs poor funding. Two of the three sats probes in Resusc. are dead. The BP cuff in the middle bay is down. The backup cuff gives ME a b/p of 40/20. My sats in the first bay on air is 42%. (Maybe I'm just working too hard...)
There're so few porters I have to wheel my patients to X-ray myself (I swear I'm gonna get a hernia one of these days)
And the needleholders in minor ops are so buggered they can't grip the 4/0 sutures, which makes sewing up someone's face laceration just that much more challenging.
Bring it on, baby.
It's just struck me what the real difference between spacefan and myself is.
Spacefan's an ER doctor.
I'm a casualty doctor.
Over in Singapore everything's slick, shiny spandex. (ok maybe no spandex, bugger.)
Here in the UK it's a battlefield... us vs management, us vs poor funding. Two of the three sats probes in Resusc. are dead. The BP cuff in the middle bay is down. The backup cuff gives ME a b/p of 40/20. My sats in the first bay on air is 42%. (Maybe I'm just working too hard...)
There're so few porters I have to wheel my patients to X-ray myself (I swear I'm gonna get a hernia one of these days)
And the needleholders in minor ops are so buggered they can't grip the 4/0 sutures, which makes sewing up someone's face laceration just that much more challenging.
Bring it on, baby.
