Thursday, March 31, 2016

You Know You're in Healthcare When...


You know you’re in healthcare when…

·         There is a cup of tongue depressors next to the coffee pot to use instead of coffee stirrers.

·         You wash your hands before AND after you use the restroom.

·         The letters PCI on construction equipment you view while driving down the interstate are immediately interpreted in your mind as percutaneous coronary intervention.

·         Your friends rank the “medicine” or “anatomy” question at trivia night as the highest-scoring question of the round because you and several other medical buddies are on the team.

·         You get excited explaining the Eustachian tube to patients several times a day.

·         You’d like to take vacation but you have to know 3-4 months in advance to get a day off of work.

·         You know certain other people’s date of birth (DOB) better than you do your own family members’ DOBs.

·         You have to leave a patient’s room because you “forgot your ears” and need to grab your stethoscope.

·         You can eat and talk “gross things” at the same time. Or you can eat and WATCH “gross things” at the same time. Or both.

·         You can outlast most of your friends when it comes to games that involve supplying multiple-syllable words.