Twelve hour shifts are kinda long
You know you've been at work too long when you start dancing in the hallway and turning the "Hokey Pokey" into the "Patient Pokey" with phrases like "you re-attach your leg leads and you turn the lights back out..."
Or when the funniest thing you've seen in your life is a paper meant for communication with non-English speaking patients that has lots of ambiguous faces drawn on it, with the word for the emotion written above it, in English, including a "stupid" face, complete with dunce cap.
Or your favorite quote becomes "I'd like 37 pizzas." "You'd like what?" "I'd like 37 pieces of water."
Or you have a long, long list of what not to name your children that includes names like Edsel and Belvet.
Or your patients ask if you live there, too.
Yeah.
