This maybe a 1st.

[TAB]

I'm actually glad my wife got called into work...

that means I don't have to goto a xmas party at the hospital.

I stick out like a swore thumb there.

[PegLeg45]

I'm actually glad my wife got called into work...

that means I don't have to goto a xmas party at the hospital.

I stick out like a swore thumb there.

Yeah, but do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth??   


Couldn't help it........Merry Christmas, dude!!! 

[TAB]

no but I will tell them to kiss my butt.


about 95% of all doctors are ass hats.  about 5% "get it"  I know I'd love to beat the crap out of sarahs boss, the guys head is so big he has to trun sideways to get thru a door.  There is no doubt he is highly skilled, but gd pull your head out of your ass.

[fightingquaker13]

Right there with you Tab. I dated a surgical intern. The office party I went to was like the Twilight Zone. First there were the interns who couldn't remember when they last had 48 consecutive hours off. They could only drink a half glass of champagne, if that, because they had to be on call. Then there were the attending physicians who I desperately wanted to punch. First for the aroggance they displayed in terms of wanting the interns to bow and scrape, and also expecting us dates to do likewise (I pissed my girl off when I refered to one as a "jumped up mechanic" within his earshot ). Then there was the fact that giving my girl a 72 hour workday was normal to them. (Sometimes its good to have gun free zones ). Add to that the gallows humor that makes me seem positively fluffy. Jokes about suicide victims needing to aim back not up, otherwise they'll cry before they bleed out,  or stories about needing to grab the scapel before the morphine and how it makes the lawyers nervous. I mean, I considered myself pretty hardcore, but damn! Hang around a bunch of Miami trauma surgeons and you'll redefine the word hardcore PDQ. Anyway, I'd say be glad it was a miss. Its better for your blood pressure. Just give the girl a  back rub when she stumbles in at some ungodly hour and try not to beat the crap out of her boss. Its the best that I could manage.
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[kmitch200]

no but I will tell them to kiss my butt. about 95% of all doctors are ass hats. 

Sounds about right, maybe a little lower percentage here - except when I was still working and bringing them work.
"Why did you bring this guy to the hospital?"
Well gee doc we were bored so we threw a dart at the wall map, went over there and drug that person out of their house just for fun.

Bunghole docs I always call by their first names, real friendly like - "Hi Joe, nice to see you!" Bugs the shit out of them while at the same time disarming them. Some, you can see steam rising out of their ears if the light is just right. 

FQ: "Add to that the gallows humor that makes me seem positively fluffy. Jokes about suicide victims needing to aim back not up"

Gallows humor is my specialty. 31+ years in a fire house, working calls with cops and your brain just kind of evolves that way. 

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[tombogan03884]

FQ, Cut them slack on the gallows humor, if you can't laugh at the sh!t in life it might wind up being YOUR brains on the wall.

[fightingquaker13]

FQ, Cut them slack on the gallows humor, if you can't laugh at the sh!t in life it might wind up being YOUR brains on the wall.

You misunderstand me Tom. I stand in awe of them. Its just that I always prided myself on my ability to shock a class into silence by making some totally inappropriate joke about a particularly bloody piece of history, and then, once I had their attention, move on to my point (believe it or not, there is humor to be found in the 100 Years War or the Battle of the Alamo). But these guys? They were artists. I found myself speechless. It was like going from Friday Night Lights to the NFL in terms of dark comedy.
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[cookie62]

Sit in on an autopsy and listen to the pathologist before he turns the recorder on. If they have an intern it's worse.