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[e_jeanriley]

It's begun. The crusade against lethal coffee has commenced. It's about time, too

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[olivia_rn]

REVOLUTION! I have replaced the generic coffee at the nurses station with a fine dark Sumatran roast. Other sites shall soon be seeded.

Also, I see your waffle-iron burn and raise you one limo-driver high on pcp.

[e_jeanriley]

Finally, a member of the nursing staff with a head on her shoulders. (I will now, of course, be just under Dr. House on the RN's Union's Most Wanted List. But no matter)

Ok, you win that one. Just you wait, though. Pretty soon I'm going to have a teenager who has peirced themselves with a paperclip against their parent's permission, or something of the like. (This actually wouldn't be all that odd, if it weren't for the creative locales of these peircings)

Ah, clinic duty... can you ever be boring?

[dr_susan_ellis]

Ouch! That sounds painful!

[e_jeanriley]

Can't say I've tried it, but yes, I'd imagine it'd be very, very painful. Around here you see all shades of stupid teenage rebellion. We've got it all.

[eachan_emt]

As always, I laugh a little at you people and your Clinic duty. From the horror stories I hear, the Clinic is the Stupid Ward. The ER's so much cooler.

[e_jeanriley]

I agree only because in the ER, you know something's actually wrong with the patient, rather than getting glitter stuck up their nose.

Oh, and because unconscious people are traditionally much less talkative than fully awake hypochrondiacs.

[dr_susan_ellis]

But in the clinic, we have a lesser chance of being drenched in bodily fluids :)

[eachan_emt]

...Yeah.

[pconnielanglotz]

Clinic is NOT the stupid ward. Gotta defend my folks here; a lot of people I know come to the clinic with normal conditions because they're broke. It's just that you don't remember the plain old mom with a kid with bronchitis. That's boring, y'know?

[e_jeanriley]

Of course. I give credit for normalcy where credit is due. It's just a) there's an awful lot more reality TV imitation than there are unavoidable problems, and b) it's much more fun to complain about the weird stuff than brood over the normal.

Besides, if we can't talk about and laugh over the odd aspects of our job, what will we do? Nothing's meant by it... except when we say that a person's got to be pretty stupid to wind themselves up in a given situation.