Things seen and heard in the ICU:
- Visitor:"How will it be when he wakes"
Nurse: "Is he a smoker?"
Visitor: "No"
Nurse: "Then he'll be fine." - It is a little odd to see your Dad happily snoozing on morphine. All non-emerg and going well, thanks.
- After seeing cops and corrections guys sitting around drinking coffee, I figure pretty much every day must land some prisoner in ICU after getting the hell beaten out of him given our nine or so Federal penitentiaries.
- It is nice to see a crap restaurant in a hospital where there are very good medical resources. Priorities.
- Queen's has got the best designed multi-story car park I have ever seen. It is under a sports field and you wouldn't know it is there if you were not within 50 feet of the entrance.
Comments
alfons - September 25, 2004 7:33 AM
<blockquote>Visitor:"How will it be when he wakes"
Nurse: "Is he a smoker?"
Visitor: "No"
Nurse: "Then he'll be fine."</blockquote>
Uhm?
Alan - September 25, 2004 8:23 AM
Whatever the person's condition, despite the ten tubes and rack of monitors, the only factor that was important as to how he would wake and respond was if he was a smoker. To be fair, however, the heart surgeon said an interesting thing - that high blood pressure was far worse than smoking for the heart. The first wracks every part of the system where smoking kills off discrete points that can be dealt with by him more easily.
alfons - September 25, 2004 1:21 PM
Exactly my point: Overly broad speaking: Living kills.