You Might Be A Respiratory Therapist If...
1. You own at least three pens with the names of prescription meds on them.
2. You wash your hands BEFORE you go to the bathroom even at home.
3. You believe that any job where you can drive to work in your pajamas is a cool one.
4. You've been exposed to so many x-rays you consider it a form of birth control.
5. You've ever heard a patient with a nose ring, brow ring, and twelve earrings say "I'm afraid of needles" as you pick up their wrist.
6. You've told a confused patient that your name is that of a co-worker and to call if they need help.
7. You had no idea in RT school that you'd see so many naked people once you started working in the hospital.
8. You believe that not all patients are annoying...some are unconscious.
9. You family and friends refuse to watch medical sitcomes with you because you spend the whole time correcting everyone and point out the upside down x-rays. (Glenna's comment: Why stop at sitcoms? What about dramas and movies?)
10. You don't get excited about blood...unless it's your own.
11. You understand that you can't cure stupid.
12. You've sworn to have "Do not resuscitate" tattooed on your chest.
13. Discussing body fluids and dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal to you.
14. You believe in the aerial spraying of prozac and xanax.
15. You believe that "shallow end of the gene pool" shoudl be a recognized diagnosis.
16. You have ever wanted to write a book titled "Suicide: Getting it Right the First Time".
17. You've ever had to leave a patient's room before you begin to laugh uncontrollably.
18. You consider graham crackers and peanut butter stolen from the ward kitchen your lunch break.
19. You believe there's a special place in hell for the inventor of the beeper.
20. You've ever had a patient look you straight in the eye and tell you they quit smoking "a long time ago" while you're holding the ABG report that shows a CoHb of 7.
Who knew medicine could be so hilarious?? Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: babs m | February 22, 2008 at 12:28 PM
I particularly like "You understand that you can't cure stupid."
I received this a few days ago via forward from one of my nursing friends. Cool.
Posted by: freadom | February 22, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Babs--We have to keep our sense of humor!
Freadom--yeah, that's where I got it but I reworked it and added some for us.
Posted by: Glenna | February 23, 2008 at 12:05 AM
Hey from Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio - where Level I Trauma Therapists ROCK! Keep up the great website :)
Amy
Posted by: Amy | July 13, 2008 at 01:56 PM
Thank you! I have a friend in OHIO so woooohoooo Ohio!
Posted by: Glenna | July 25, 2008 at 01:04 AM