Work/home soon
I'm on the back side of working 7 out of 8 and possibly 8 out of 9. It has been busy, but not terrible. Tonight I have patients with an infected abcess from a surgical would (probably got MRSA during the surgery), a nursing home patient who is wheelchair bound and fell and broke his femur but no surgery is required to fix, a guy who fell down the steps and got a small pneumothorax, a man who was hit by a drunk driver and sustained a fractured femur in three places, a guy who fell off a roof sustaining a fractured elbow and fractured pelvis, and a man with a total knee replacement with a DVT complication.
All my patients are pretty good, and I like most of them. My one patient is a cab driver, so I was asking him about famous fares. He told me Charles Barkley was probably the coolest guy he ever drove. Barkley gives the driver a Benjamin when he gets in the cab, when he exits the cab, and if he makes any stops, a hundred more with each entrance and exit. He said the Round Mound of Rebound is like MENSA smart (not sure about that, so will have to check). I always have liked Barkley, so good to hear.
He works a lot out of Ceasars Palace driving a limo too. He said the drivers draw straws to see who has to take Celene Dion home. He said she is a complete bitch and horrible person. Doesn't want the driver to speak, and she makes them raise the divider as soon as she gets in the car. She won't talk to them, treats them like peasants, and she stiffs the tip every single time. Conversely, Elton John who also performs at Ceasars sometimes is awesome. Elton will have the driver go by the mall and buy them clothes, buy them pizza, and he has a custard place he likes to go as well. He too tips a hundo with each entrance and exit, and chats them up like long lost friends.
We are doing back home for about 10 days, then two weeks in Haiti, back home a week, then back to Vegas for an indeterminate time. More later.
I'm on the back side of working 7 out of 8 and possibly 8 out of 9. It has been busy, but not terrible. Tonight I have patients with an infected abcess from a surgical would (probably got MRSA during the surgery), a nursing home patient who is wheelchair bound and fell and broke his femur but no surgery is required to fix, a guy who fell down the steps and got a small pneumothorax, a man who was hit by a drunk driver and sustained a fractured femur in three places, a guy who fell off a roof sustaining a fractured elbow and fractured pelvis, and a man with a total knee replacement with a DVT complication.
All my patients are pretty good, and I like most of them. My one patient is a cab driver, so I was asking him about famous fares. He told me Charles Barkley was probably the coolest guy he ever drove. Barkley gives the driver a Benjamin when he gets in the cab, when he exits the cab, and if he makes any stops, a hundred more with each entrance and exit. He said the Round Mound of Rebound is like MENSA smart (not sure about that, so will have to check). I always have liked Barkley, so good to hear.
He works a lot out of Ceasars Palace driving a limo too. He said the drivers draw straws to see who has to take Celene Dion home. He said she is a complete bitch and horrible person. Doesn't want the driver to speak, and she makes them raise the divider as soon as she gets in the car. She won't talk to them, treats them like peasants, and she stiffs the tip every single time. Conversely, Elton John who also performs at Ceasars sometimes is awesome. Elton will have the driver go by the mall and buy them clothes, buy them pizza, and he has a custard place he likes to go as well. He too tips a hundo with each entrance and exit, and chats them up like long lost friends.
We are doing back home for about 10 days, then two weeks in Haiti, back home a week, then back to Vegas for an indeterminate time. More later.
