What it must look like to a patient when I'd see a patient roll into the trauma bay with an extremity deformity, but the ED is still doing their primary survey...

Attending: 'So there's different pro-inflammatory cytokines that can be associated with trauma, TNF-alpha, IL-1, IL-10, but probably most importantly, IL-6'

Me: 'IL... probably forget that....'

I'm waiting for hepatology to page me back regarding a patient that's going into acute liver failure.  In the meantime...

(After answering a pimping question correctly)
Attending: 'Nice work. You're performing above your expectations.'

Leaving the hospital for a long weekend after 3 weeks straight on....

ED attending at 0230: 'Hey, I've got a raging prepatellar bursitis that should probably be opened'
Me: 'Okay, I'll be right in'.

(walking in at 0415)
Nurse: 'You fell back asleep, didn't you.'

I got a consult from psychiatry yesterday. They...
A) ordered xrays
B) ordered the correct xrays
C) ordered infectious labs
D) pronouced the named bones correctly
E) described accurately a hardware failure

Anytime an attending asks me how I feel about applying to fellowships in less than a year...

How I felt when an attending let me try a patella ORIF which turned into a partial patellectomy....

ED at 0230: "Hey, I've got a boxers fracture, closed, I'm just going to send it to clinic if that's okay with you..."

 My usual response to the chief complaint of 'My ______ told me I had a leg length discrepancy'...

How I establish arthroscopic portals...

When an attending tells me specifically not to...

When I would do a spine exam and try to subtly ask my senior in front of the patient if they need a rectal exam...

I just got my new ortho jacket. How I feel...

Nurse: 'You might not wanna set your coffee there, we might drink it'

Me (jokingly): 'I hope not, I've got just rampant oral herpes.'

Nurse response: ...