No, it's not Pink Floyd, but I needed surgery, I'd want these guys trying to wake me up after it was over:
They don't have to sing about it while they're doing it, though. After I'm safely awake and in the recovery room would be fine.
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Posted on: September 21, 2008 10:30 AM, by Orac
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They should call themselves the "Halotones"
Posted by: notmercury | September 21, 2008 10:54 AM
Ah, they have their own webpage.
Posted by: Bob O'H | September 21, 2008 11:36 AM
That's amusing. You can tell that doctors clearly don't have enough patients. :)
Posted by: Daniel K. | September 21, 2008 12:59 PM
They are not doctors, they are nurses.
Just like the one sent in during my first birthing. I asked for an epidural... So he came in and noticed that I was not dilated enough. He sat down and explained in excruciating detail all the good and bad parts of an epidural. When he was done, I was examined again.
I was too dilated for an epidural!
AAAARGH.
I gave birth about three hours later (I had a wee bit of narcotics to dull the worst bits).
I've never had an epidural even though I have asked for one... though for the last kid it was understandable, I was barely at the hospital before that kid made its appearance! Absolutely no drugs with that kid, there was no time.
Not that it made a difference. She is as annoying a teenager as her older siblings.
Posted by: Chris H. | September 27, 2008 1:48 AM
Forgot to mention, whenever you are in the hospital you will mostly see nurses.
Nurses ROCK!
Even if they are long winded CRNAs.
Posted by: Chris H. | September 27, 2008 2:03 AM