This just suddenly occurred to me while I was wondering why I was reading about this Essex-Lopresti fracture-dislocation. Remember how we used to get such calls at night.

1. “I cannot sleep!”
- and you make the nurse call me up (me who’s been working non stop for 17hours before this call interrupts me 10min into a much needed rest

Are you in pain? If not,
-> go count sheep

2. “I haven’t passed motion for 2 days…”

Are you having constipation colic now? If not,
-> we’ll fleet you tomorrow, why make the poor nurses change you bathe you in the middle of the night while your shit wakes up other patients

3. “My finger very itchy.”

Now this kind of complaint is kinda weird…

I remember a friend wrote ‘SCRATCH PRN’ in the IMR.

4. “I keep burping I cannot sleep!”

I used to think this was an absurd complaint but I’ve seen first-hand how bad it can be and I really pitied the poor guy!

5. “Can I eat my lingzhi-health supplement-mysterious-all-healing-brown-pill?”

Which brings me to this, WHY are you not sleeping and thinking about taking your TCM/elixir of everlasting life in the middle of the night?!

That’s all for now. My poor abused brain cannot think further.
Feel free to contibute.