Thursday, March 29, 2007

Dumb techs do dumb things



About a hundred years ago I worked with this really dumb tech. We called him
Gump. He was Duh-um! One day Gump was down in the ER taking X-rays, when a young girl came in on a stretcher. She had been in a bad car accident. Hit from behind.
She was in a neckbrace and on a backboard all strapped in. So Gump slid her onto the table and began taking her X-rays. The ER docs thought that she might have broken her neck. Normally we take about 5-7 films in a case like this. About halfway through the neck series she told Gump that she had to pee. Usually we put people on a bedpan. What did Gump do?? He sat her up, got her off the table, WALKED HER down the hall, about 50 feet, to the bathroom and left her there so she could pee. He told her to go back to X-ray when she was done so he could finish her films. Risking possible paralysis.
Just then the Tech supervisor stopped by to see what was going on, when who should limp thought the door?? You guessed it....the patient!!!
I can still hear it," I got fired Lieutenant Dan!"
No patients were harmed in the making of this story. Thank God!!
Laters

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