Down side of working in a trauma center near a music venue: drunks.
I used to work in a trauma center near a large music venue and the staff would plan its schedule around what band was playing there that weekend. Ditto for all the ambulance services. Jimmy Buffet and OzzFest were the worst. Documenting skin color on someone painted up to look like Lily Munster is challenging.
The hospital administration used to complain to the owners of the venue and about every month someone would show up in the ED and give us 50-100 free tickets to one of the shows. Developed an enjoyment of Tom Petty’s music because of those tickets.
Never did get offered tickets to Jimmy Buffet or OzzFest, though.
Guess the music venue owners figured if all the docs and nurses were at the concerts, the hospital would have trouble staffing the EDs to treat all the drunks.
Lucky for you KISS wasn’t touring…take a scapel to scrape that greasepaint off.
I’d say you lucked out with Tom Petty rather than Jimmy Buffet or OzzFest…pretty nice tunes with good lyrics. “I can stand at the gates of hell but I won’t back down” is one of my early AM rev up songs.
From your writing, Tom Petty seems like a good match of messages.
With body paint, or somebody covered in blood or dirt, all I worry about is color of mucus membranes. Even if they aren’t covered in something, the mucus membranes are all that matter to me.
Haha I used to do that from the venue I worked at. My mom is a nurse (lucky for her not at that hospital) so I felt bad sending all those injured drunks their way… I figured free tickets for them was only fair!
Where I was before we feared the Phish concerts. Drunks hit by cars over and over and over…