Again with the weekend cases with the tech that I don’t care for.
To amuse myself, and to keep a civil tongue in my head, I began listing, also in my head, all the adjectives that embody this guy.
For no apparent reason I started with O.
Obstinate.
Obstructive.
Only out for his own sake.
Obstreperous.
I could go on.
This amused me and let me finish the case without blowing my top.
Especially after he put his dirty specimen cups and culture swabs on the metal table next to the “chart”. Without waiting for stickers, without care for the hand-off process that keeps the patient safe.
Obdurate *swear word*.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 