Paybacks

One of our registration clerks thinks she’s pretty slick. We play little practical jokes on each other every once in a while. One day she’ll unplug the keyboard to my computer when I’m in a room with a patient. I’ll come out to try to enter orders and start pounding the keyboard. Another day I’ll squirt a syringe of saline onto her chair so her butt gets wet when she sits down. And on and on and on. Recently, she tried to scare me. My desk sits across the station from hers and my back is to her. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can see everything that goes on behind me by the reflection off of the x-ray computer screen. While I was looking at an old chart on the screen, I saw her get up out of her desk, put her finger up to her lips to tell everyone to be quiet, and try to sneak up behind me. She was trying to tip-toe, but I could hear her little clown sneakers squeak as she walked. When she got close enough to me, she dug her fingers into my sides and yelled. I saw it all coming. I acted like I was sleeping and I stretched my arms up in the air, yawning. [Yawwwwwwn] “Is it time for me to go home already?” “You think you’re funny, don’t you WhiteCoat? Just wait. I’ll get you yet.” When my shift was over, I decided to make a pre-emptive strike. The registration clerk sits in a little cubby hole of sorts. There’s a line of several windows – one for each registration clerk – with a l...
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