This Joke Is Out For Blood
Hospital, Italy | Healthy | January 4, 2018
(I’m receiving a dose of chemo treatment, which in this hospital means sitting at desks in a room with several other patients. Probably as a result of their job risk assessment, the nurses are all wearing funny-looking, disposable filter masks, which is a novelty and a noticeable one.)
Patient: “Nurse, why are you wearing those masks today?”
Nurse: “It’s a safety measure, so we don’t accidentally breathe the chemotherapy drugs.”
Patient: “Then why aren’t we given masks as well?”
Nurse: “Because they wouldn’t do much of a difference, since you’re getting the drugs straight into your bloodstream anyway?”
(Despite the usually sombre atmosphere in the room, there was some chuckling.)
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College Grades Go From A To E To STD
College & University, Health & Body, Rude & Risque, USA | Healthy | January 4, 2018
(Regrettably, our local university is the main reason that county STD rates are the second-highest in the state (the highest-ranking county is home to a naval base). Outbreaks are common and rather a grim joke with local healthcare providers. The county has purchased a new emergency radio system and one of their officers has arrived to train our staff on how to use the equipment.)
Instructor: “The great thing about this system is that it is linked to over two hundred towers, state-wide. This means that if you need to, you can communicate not only throughout the county, but with other jurisdictions as well. For example; let’s say you have to set up some kind of emergency clinic at the University for… I don’t know, what’s an epidemic that the students might experience there?”
Me: *without thinking* “Probably chlamydia.”
(My boss shushed me, but our director of nursing almost fell off her chair from laughing so hard.)
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