Saturday, May 30, 2015

Some patient walked into clinic with a game of thrones shirt on (specifically one that had the knights watch creed on it) : 
Me: 'So one of my friends has a theory that jon snow is going to be a dragon rider because he has targaryan blood, so he can, BUT, bran is going to somehow control them through his wog powers and all that stuff."
Patient: 


Monday, May 25, 2015

Patient after a minor surgery: "Hey doc, these norco's probably won't do the trick, how about some percocet 10's?"
Me: "No, the norco's should be okay, if you're having a ton of pain, you should probably come to the ER."
Patient: "Well, okay. How about some oral dilaudid instead?"
Me:





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Walking into the ED during a motocross race weekend...

Me: "Hey man, so you've tested positive for meth a couple of times already. If this one comes back positive, we're going to have to put off your surgery for a while. Have you used recently?"
Patient:

When when of my co-residents asks how the day went after a patient lost 4 liters of blood...


Sunday, May 24, 2015

After struggling for a half hour to get a clavicle malunion back out to length...


Saturday, May 23, 2015

We have new PA's that we work with that take overnight call. This is currently how I spend most of my mornings during their sign out...


Patient: "My heel pain started like 10 years ago when I was in a motorcycle accident. The bone was fractured, but luckily it wasn't broken."
Me:

I had my pandora station in the OR yesterday on random and taylor swift's "style" came on...






















OR tech: "So why's it thumbs upped?"
Me:


Friday, May 15, 2015

(To the scrub tech at the end of a supracondylar pinning, motioning to the end of the k-wire as I went to cut it off)
Me: 'You might want to grab the tip right there, it's about to shoot at you.'




I saw one of my patients that I operated on driving home today...