When the anesthesiologist insists on his iPod full of head banger heavy metal right next to my desk and the phone where I have to convey orders and talk to patient's families, as well as coordinate with everyone else, there is a problem. When he turns it up before he leaves the room, I have a toehold. While he was out of the room, I turned it off. He came back in, "If we want to have a good day in here today..."
"You turned it up and left the room."
"I can put it up near me." This dripping with sarcastic disdain.
"Fine." I said, instead of -You have crap taste in music, and if I want a good day in here, I'd just as soon you scream in my ear all day, because that would be better than eight hours of Slayer. Moved, it was background rumble. I could tolerate.
If I can't understand the words (Yobitchho lemmefuckyou!), I would actually prefer rap. Not a favorite, but nowhere near as obnoxious in general sound. We were at a gathering recently where Guitar Hero ran the whole time. Noise and commotion, which makes me edgy and angry. To each his own, of course. But when I am trapped into listening, AND it interferes with my job, my tolerance ends.
Kept on call, three extra hours. Snowed yesterday afternoon. Car did fine, but folks here drive like they've never seen the stuff before.
Then, this morning, after I got to work, I realized I had a holy sock.
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Holy sock, Batman!
"If we want to have a good day in here today..."
It's the 'we' that's telling. "Either I can annoy you or we can both annoy one another, so be selfless."
Hell is other people's music, as Sartre meant to say.
The holy sock, eh? You could start a new religion with that, although it might turn out to be a sect within pastafarianism.
If I were a patient I think I'd worry a bit about being in the charge of an anesthesiologist like that one...
He's a competent anesthesiologist. I wouldn't go out of my way to choose him, but if I came in through the ER, and saw his face at my head in the OR, I'd feel safe. Personality and skill are not necessarily linked. I know a few that I like as people, that I would refuse to let put me out. Most of our guys are excellent.
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