Ok I’ll bite…?

Oh shoot I was worried a bunch spoiled and was going to weep for the loss but it sounds like it’s just a logistics problem. 😮‍💨

Reminder that even if you have O-positive (O-negative is the universal donor), O+ is still very useful! Negative blood types in general are fairly rare, and O+ can give to all other positive blood types. This means that blood can be used for most patients who they have time to type and crossmatch, and the only time they really don’t have time for that is traumas like car crashes and gunshots (so obviously they need as much of the O-negative as possible too). Unless they’re a negative blood type, all the anemics, the scheduled surgeries, and childbirth where the person can be typed and crossmatched in advance, they can often use the O+. Using the O+ for scheduled infusions means they can save that rarer O- (that might otherwise get used if no other match was available) for the emergencies where they need it most!

Even better if he just paid her to do it or knew her mom through church and set him up or something else just totally mundane just to fuck with him. Like this:

Even disregarding the misgendering aspect, the fact that anon thinks it would ever be ok to tell any person “hey I’m pretty sure I know what your genitals are even though you wouldn’t want me to” at any time is just… fascinating.

Fun fact: this is exactly what’s happening in Healthcare right now! I feel like every other week I have to explain basic concepts to my newer coworkers, and it’s not even their faults because admin is basically having them all train each other. Most new nurses these days are lucky to be trained by another nurse who has more than a full year of experience. And the resident doctors make all kinds of mistakes literally just because residency is basically hazing to the extent that they force them to work back to back to back nights vs days without adequate time to shift their circadian rhythms properly, so they’re relying on a new nurse trained by a slightly less new nurse to catch errors by a doctor who is also relatively new but most importantly has gotten 2 hours of sleep out of the last 72. I highly recommend getting in shape and wearing your seatbelt because whoever you think is going to save you after you get catapulted across 3 lanes of a crowded highway is becoming more likely to just kill you faster and more painfully every year.

I have no idea who this is so his power hasn’t reached me… yet.

I’ve told a lot of patients “don’t make that joke to the doctor.” Also depending on the joke I write,“patient able to appropriately use humor to cope with the stresses of hospitalization” in my note to document for future reference that they’re a fucking smartass.

Unironically what I learned from DBT. “If you want people to be impressed with you, think up something really impressive that you could do and go do that.”