The gown card reads “I’d rather be working here than being worked on here.”
A retired orthopedic surgeon said this to another orthopedic surgeon.
This is the cure for all the people who are bellyaching about working.
Let us put it more simply. Would you rather work on the patient or be the patient that the team is being worked on?
Can’t put it any simpler than that.
I know, I know, you’d rather be at home with your children/spouse/significant other/pet.
However, if you had to choose which would you choose?
Because none of us are getting out of here alive, or intact.
I would definitely be working than the one on the table. But then you all knew that because I am the workaholic here.
It strikes me this can be analogous to learning as an adult. And this could have probably waited for a School Me Saturday.
Which would you rather do?
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 