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…