The Pensieve

I didn’t know we had ’static interpreters’ at the ED. Heh heh… Today as I was walking past the station where they radio in the standbys, I paused to see what I could catch, after all I was curious how much time I had to settle my reviews in obs room before the standby came…

The voice over the radio came like this…

“Hotel 4… hotel 4….. static static static… male…. static static static….. 07 minutes’

It was like duh, why was I even trying to catch the case! I couldn’t make out all that information with all the buzzing going on and our own ED announcements…

And then to my utter amazement, E**** radios back the entire information perfectly!!! I was so utterly ashamed of my ears hahaha…

This blog entry is dedicated to all female physicians, who embark on this already very male dominated environment with a distinct disadvantage - not being familiar with the make and feel of normal testes.

Apart from their importance in the famed term 传宗接代, they are actually pretty useless things that get the other gender into trouble. For example, they could be undescended -> leading to higher chance of cancer, or they could get twisted around themselves leading to not just decreased fertility but also undergoing necrosis, getting infected, causing toxins to circulate through the body (thereby attacking the other testis) blah blah…

Anyway, apart from reminding myself and all others to ALWAYS CHECK FOR TESTES PRESENCE AND LIE in cases of abdominal pain especially…

Sometimes it’s just NOT easy to find the darn things!!!

oh i’ve got two night shifts coming up… first one’s tonight…

now’s 330pm, going to meet the ex -orthoHods (hah) for dinnerrrr!

i need to count sheep now!

MUST SLEEP!!!

The ED is a harrowing experience, both for the doctors, nurses and patients alike. Here are some of the small inconveniences (some not so small) of working there:

1. dry chapped hands :( (I wash and scrub my hands like twice after every shift just to get the glove dust off)

2. toe fractures (sometimes even crocs aren’t going to save you!)

3. garrulous combative drunks

4. head injury from the XR projector in resus room

5. crush injury from doors in the resus room (i dunno why but i keep walking into those)

6. mitotic lesions (after all we can’t possibly hide from all that radiation)

7. back pain. and more back pain.

8. alcohol intoxication on weekend nights (after inhaling noxious fumes all around)

9. learning to sleep ‘on command’

10. getting a bit deaf from the loudspeakers all around…

The 5th in the Thursday Next Series, I feel that it’s less tightly constructed then previous series, but I liked it better than ‘Something Rotten’, cuz the chronoguards and that whole concept was just too difficult to assimilate. Haha… The current issue has lot of subplots but no one main story so it’s kind of like a pleasure-reading thingy rather than a race to finish in order to find the ending… It talks about Thursday’s experiences with Thursday5 and Thursday Next1.4 both aspiring Jurisfiction agents, her troubles with her son Friday and her continuing of SpecsOp under the cover of Acme Carpets.

Ok by now, I think non-Fforde readers will be well and truly lost… Shall just share an interesting riddle in the book:

You have two identical doors. Behind one is safety you seek, and behind the other is a… tiger. Guarding the door of each is an individual, one who always tells the truth, and the other who always lies. You can’t know which is which, nor which door is guarded by whom - and you have one question, to one guard, to discover the correct door… to safety.

So what’s the answer to this riddle?

(answer ’s in the comments)