How I must look to a patient in the trauma bay with an open femur fracture...

I was starting a tibial plateau and the scrub tech teaching a new hire behind me was pointing to her specific instrument layout:
"You'll have to indulge me a little bit, these are just a few of my anal things."

My parents called to see how my current rotation (which has free food) was going...

When the ER attending says we have to do a grade 1 open fracture emergently at 3 AM because 'their literature says so'...

My self reflection on my clavicle analogy I came up with on the spot last night. It went something like this:

Patient: "But doctor, my clavicle is pretty displaced, how does it heal like that?

Me: "Sir, the ends of your clavicle...they're like two star crossed lovers in the night.  They will find each other... and they will... become one."

Thanks to Dr. Smith for the submission.

When an attending walks in on you struggling with a new approach...