The gown card reads “Mocking MDs to their faces is funny.”
Yeah, on its surface this gown card is kind of mean.
But MDs are people too. They should be people first.
I remember when I wrote this gown card. The companion note says that “the squeaky wheel gets the flip.” And I wrote the Post-it Sunday dispatch last year on 4/9/23. And you thought I was just picking post-it notes from the cloud.
Nope. I still have a container full of them.
But I should really have left these two together.
I have laughed in a surgeon’s face when they requested a flip. Only to have them go behind my back and TEXT my manager. Who told them of course they could have the flip room. No matter that we didn’t have staff for another room. Or that another room wasn’t even cleaned. No matter that they were at home with their wine and their kids. The squeaky wheel got the flip.
But I got to laugh at a surgeon. So that’s good.
The title of this dispatch is that I am not that kind of nurse.
I was thinking of John Travolta and the movie Michael, where he played the titular angel who leans over to Andie McDowell as she was protesting that he was an angel and he couldn’t do what he was doing. His next line was my favorite in the movie, “I’m not that kind of angel.”
Still cracks me up.
I am not that kind of nurse. I will take under advisement any requests for a flip room.
But the surgeon may not get it.
So don’t go and tattle to someone who isn’t even at the hospital.
Or I’ve got a mop you can sling.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 