I love working in medicine. There are days when I would actually pay them to be there solely for the entertainment value.
Here's the setup:
I work in a large clinic with many different specialties.
I work in Dermatology (Derm). Hair, Skin & Nails for those of you who don't know. We are busy, busy, busy.
The Nursing station that is used by the nursing staff to assist the doctors and support the patients that come to Derm is called the "pod". (No, the fact that groups of whales are called pods has not escaped us). Image a capital H. <---Or just look at this one.
Our pod (and every other one in the clinic) is designed in this manner. The bar in the center of the "H" is where the nurses sit, there are 6 of us, 7 including the one nurse that sits with us but is not in our department, technically. The horizontal lines on either side of the bar are where the exam rooms are as well as the doctor's private offices. There are three doctors at this point. They will here on out be referred to as Dr. C, Dr. D and LM.
The pod is the "heart" of our office. This is where we keep our computers, charts, paperwork; answer phones, do call backs and generally regroup. As you can imagine, this area is fertile ground for a variety of amusingly inappropriate conversation. All the nurses are female. All the doctors are male.
Here's an example:
Nurse is on the phone, dealing with a pharmacy. Pharmacy puts her one hold. Nurse is quiet for a moment, then announces to no one in general "I smell a GI bleed, I have a nose for GI bleeds and I swear I smell one." For those of you who have never had the pleasure, the end product of a GI bleed is a uniquely fragrant mixture of blood and shit that is most commonly found in hospitals, leaking out of some unfortunate patient's ass onto their bed sheets. Nurses are familiar with this smell as the doctors are not normally the ones who clean it up.
Since we are in a clinical setting it is unlikely that this occurring anywhere in the near vicinity, and nurse knows this, so she enquires further "if anyone has farted?" because if they have, "they might have a problem that they don't know about". Did anyone bat an eyelash? Nope. But we all had a good laugh. In my line of work, this is normal.
Love. My. Job.
