Friday, December 5, 2008

What I've learned in residency

Here are a few of the more interesting concepts I have gleaned from residency:
  • Don't mind your own business. Everyone who gets shot or stabbed was just minding their own business. Seriously it's not safe.
  • Watch out for handicap doors. There might have been a visitor coming to see a loved one in a bad accident who got hit by a handicap door, broke their hip, and had to have emergency surgery due to the internal bleeding. If it weren't for bad luck some people wouldn't have any luck.
  • Don't try to jump onto a moving train. You won't be pleased with the outcome.
  • Don't run away from a K9. Seriously, they will destroy you. I've seen the results. They're not a cute puppy, they are a dog trained to tear you to shreds and that is precisely what they do.
  • More shots doesn't guarantee that you will kill someone. In one night one person was shot over 20 times in the chest, abdomen and pelvis and lived while another was shot once in the arm and was dead within minutes. It's a crazy world.
  • Don't wait 5 weeks to come to the hospital if you haven't had a bowel movement. That's just crazy.
  • If you truly believe a criminal placed a silicone implant in your belly don't try and cut it out, just calmly make your way to the hospital and we will straighten things out.
  • Swallowing sporks is just stupid. Period.
  • If you want to get out of prison swallow everything in sight. It will not only be amusing but will win you a surgery,narcotics and a cute nurse to wait on you. Do this more than once and it isn't amusing any more it is just annoying and a massive waste of taxpayer money.
  • If you swear at the doctors trying to help you it won't win you better care.
  • Calling 911 to get an ambulance to bring you to the hospital for a pregnancy test really does happen. What a broken system we have!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow Angie! Your wisdom and principles for life are really being expanded. Thanks for clueing us in to these important lessons. I'll try to use them and apply them to my life. :)

So proud of you!
Love,
MOM

Anonymous said...

You're brilliant. We're so proud of you. I'm grateful that you are a person who practices reflection. We're all richer for it.

Dave Nordin said...

If you actual swallow enough stuff, enough times, they made just let you out of jail because the state can't afford to pay your hospital bills. At least that's the way it works in Minnesota.

Dave Nordin said...

If you swallow enough things enough times, they may just let you out of prison because the state can't afford to pay your hospital bills. At least that's the way it works in Minnesota's.

It works especially well if you've just been arrested that night because then they can avoid a bunch of paperwork too.