Comments on: Syringe Fights

By: The Ole' Apothecary

The Ole' Apothecary — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:30:22 +0000

What year did this take place? Was it 1965? Wasn’t that the last time that any E.D. in the world was that quiet?

By: Tk

Tk — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:07:58 +0000

It is even better doing it with ethyl chloride spray!

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:48:50 +0000

I just want to say that I can see from the above comments that the ED doesn’t have the corner on humor. However, in the hospital I worked in the other departments seemed more subdued by comparison.

You all have done some FUNNY stuff!!!

A friend of mine who worked in OB at another hospital told me a story of how this one doc got annoyed with the lab because it was taking too long to get results and so he wrapped up a dirty diaper and sent it to them via the hospital tube system.

Also…same doctor initiated a contest where he bet all the nurses that he could break them and cause them to go off their diets but if they didn’t and continued to lose weight…he would give them various prizes for beating him. My friend was going to get tickets to see a show in the city for her husband and her. I don’t recall what she said the other nurses would get.

So…one morning around 04:00 they are smelling a delicious barbecue in the OB department. They see there is a window open and when they look down to see what it is…that doc is down there grilling hamburgers and I don’t know what else. He smiles up at them and then tries to fan the aroma upward even more. Then when everything is cooked…he brings the big platter of barbecued foos and plops it right down in their area.

Another time he had an amazing platter of catered food sent to them. I don’t recall what else he did.

By: Chrys

Chrys — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:06:10 +0000

Corruption of a minor, shameless! I just love the way you write. I laughed just picturing all of you. “If you’re not careful, you’ll need swim trunks.” You should play at the F.D.. Now those boys and girls know how to play.

By: IVF-MD

IVF-MD — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:13:47 +0000

Thanks for the great post. It brings back great memories of the fun we had on labor and delivery back in residency. It’s good to know that life still has fun moments. In today’s climate, all it would take is a clever lawyer in cahoots with one of the soaking victims to drum up a lucrative case of either sexual harassment or racial discrimination (depending on the gender or ethnicity of the person being soaked) and turn this into a “hate crime”. My staff and I are not afraid of playing jokes on each other, because we trust each other. The most wonderful thing about playful camaraderie like this is the bonding of being in the trenches together!

By: Boo(ts)

Boo(ts) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:46:49 +0000

Ahhhh memories….

2 inch cloth tape in a web over the doorway of the call room and then paging the on-call to the Resus STAT.

Toomey syringes full of lubricating jelly.

Using casting material to secure the soundly sleeping attending to his chair. Double-0 chromic works well, too.

250 paper clips in a chain strung through the charge nurse’s office.

Sometimes I miss night shift.

By: Moondust

Moondust — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:54:26 +0000

stpaulandstpeter, LMAO

I wish our office was that fun. How did the guy react after you freed him?

By: stpaulandstpeter

stpaulandstpeter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:04:34 +0000

Our best “prank” was duct taping one of our physicians into a wheelchair (it took 8 of us to get him in there) – and then we quietly put him, wheelchair and all, into an elevator – and simply pushed “down” (we were on the 9th floor). He couldn’t go anywhere because he was securely taped to the chair.

When the elevator came back to us – we’d simply send him down again.

Too much fun! Those of us in Labor and Delivery have our share of fun too!

By: LAhead

LAhead — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:49:18 +0000

Don’t invite EMTs and Paramedics to this little bit of fun and tomfoolery. Seriously. We are the hands-down champs at practical jokes. You will not win. But you will have fun!

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:45:31 +0000

I agree with MoonDust!