Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The simple things in life are often the worst

Tense Doctor
Here PTR, take the phone while I do this.

PTR
Ok.

Tense Doctor
Call the Operations Centre and tell them that the patient's O2 sats have dropped to 60% and we've initiated forceful ventilation and suction.  Tell them there's no indication of pneumothorax.  And tell them to inform the duty consultant what's going on.  And tell them...

PTR
Er, how do you unlock this phone?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Obloquy?

You can't just go changing your headline quote without discussion - especially if it includes obscure scrabble-nerd words like obloquy!

PTR said...

Of course I can't - welcome to the discussion! What did you want to talk about?