Michael Julius

Sometimes True Emergency Room Curses

May all of your virtuous contributions go totally unnoticed and your CPR make everyone uncomfortable.

May your Hill-Rom mostly malfunction, startling you with alarms and your tracker remain so full you can't see your patients.

May your telephone ring again as soon as you take that call and may the caller recognize that you are therapeutically communicating.

May your patients and their families be indecisive and only ever want to discuss the hospital food during their medical emergency.

May your saltines only ever contain the lowest of sodium and your budget remove all (and I mean all) of the sandwiches.

May you try and try again to help and to heal and may you come back again, tomorrow, despite it all.

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