They Were a Little Too Eager
Before I got into medical school I worked as an orderly in an ER. At the time, the university hospital was getting all the “good” trauma and we got the routine stuff. Some of the younger and more enthusiastic nurses really wanted the more “challenging” cases, the kind of stuff you see in movies.
This one day, an old guy came into the triage office and the nurse asked him what his chief complaint was. The man answered, “I was shot—,” and before he could finish, the nurse leapt into action. She called out a trauma code on the intercom overhead and demanded a stretcher.
The nurse started cutting the man’s shirt and yelled, “Sir, where were you shot?” The man yelled back, “In Korea!” Everyone turned to the nurse, who was looking quite sheepish. The old guy looked around and said, “My knee hurts when it’s going to rain.” surfwaxgoesonthetop