Here is another random story from my internship days.
Alright so this happened during the 3rd month of my year long internship during my posting in general medicine.
So I was in the first unit and was going about my usual day in the male medicine ward and finally it came down to the discharging paperwork which is usually a pain in the ass.
But anyway as I was doing said paperwork, one of the nurses from another unit just walked up to me and asked me what the intercom number for a "code blue" is. And I replied saying "100...why?".
She picked up the phone and started dialing and I'm just wondering like "hold up...if she's dialing here that means there's something wrong here" and I look up to see one of the professors of medicine doing a CPR on one patient. Turns out the patient was under the care of another unit whose intern had gone to lunch and due to whatever reason, the patient had cardiac failure just as the professor was using this patient as a subject for the medicine class in front of bunch of junior students.
So when he found out that the patient was unresponsive he ignored the students and started a CPR all the while screaming "where is so and so intern???"
So he notices me there as I'm running towards him and I assist him in doing the CPR. The emergency medical team showed up in a minute and we secured an iv line, connected an ECG and saw that the heart was having an arrythmia which was also a shockable rhythm.
So my prof and I and the EMT are trying our best to resuscitate the patient and that's when I notice the nurse who had dialled the code blue number sitting casually and eating mixture snacks out of a steel lunch box.
WTF right so I'm fuming and was about to yell at her when my prof just told me to focus and handed me the pads of the defibrillator and charged it and asked me to shock the patient.
In my head I'm like "duuuudddeee I've never done this before" but I just looked and in the next few seconds my palms are sweaty knees weak, arms are heavy and there's no vomit on his clothing already I thought it was a STEMI.
I was nervous but on the surface the pads were primed and ready to deploy shocks but I kept on forgetting do I ask someone else to do it or go yell at the nurse who was stuffing her face with snacks like fuck it!
But yeah I apologise for the Eminem rip off
Anyway shocks were delivered and the patient vitals were check and he was shifted to the icu after a successful resuscitation. My professor said good job and gave me a pat on my shoulder and left to continue taking the rest of his class for the juniors.
I still hadn't calmed down cuz I was about to go give that nurse a piece of my mind about her sitting and eating instead of coming and helping. It was absolutely unacceptable.
So I go and stand in front of her glaring at her stuffing her face with snacks while I'm burning with the rage of a thousand suns. She doesn't understand why I look pissed off and without a word she raises one finger like she just had got enlightenment as to why I was nanoseconds away from shouting at her. And extends her other hand forward offering me the snacks!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm like wtf
The chronicles of Narnia
The lion
The witch
And the audacity of this bitch!!!!!!
The end
