Bored to the max!

I don't know what the hell was going on this evening but there were 5 of us in the department and there was no patients to see. When I say no patients to see I don't mean that we had run out of beds in the department, nor were we being bed-blocked by the surgeons or orthopods, nor were we full but just waiting for results having seen everyone.

I mean there were not patients!!! We had only 3 in the whole Dept and they were all about to go home. It was torrential outside and I think everyone had decided to stay home and nurse their MIs and strokes by themselves.

From this picture you can see that we had nothing to do - (from left to right) MD looks mad probably because I was so bored that I shouted at him a bit just to give me something to do, David is reading a $2 gossip "Heat" style mag! Carl has just spent 30mins trying to come up with something for us all to do next week when we are all off together (which I think will end up involving beers, poker and shouting at MD) and Luis in the distance is checking his email.

Things were so boring that I even had time to go outside and spend about an hour pissing about in the rain with my camera trying to get a good shot of the dept. Briefly the rain stopped and I got this pic which shows how nice and shiney Hornsby's new Emergency Dept is. It really is a great dept and basically it's a slightly smaller version of the layout at the Royal in Glasgow (only sees about a quarter of the patients though!)

One thing that happened tonight that was interesting or amusing depending upon how you look at it was a man with iatrogenic priapism (go look it up if you don't know what it means). For all you women out there that say "You men don't know what pain is! You should try giving birth!" well this has to be a close second as he'd had it for 24 hours and was in agony. The treatment of sticking a big needle into the poor guys penis wasn't much better and definitley one to bring a tear to the eye of even the hardiest of souls.

Hopefully, tomorrow evening will be a bit busier and will involve less mutilation of peoples genitalia.