Part 1: When you are a nurse and someone who just had a stroke says to you “Thank you for taking care of me.” I can’t think of anything that makes me feel better than that.
Part 2: Intoxicated trauma patient with severe facial wound secondary to knife injury looks up at me on the trauma room stretcher and says “Thank you doc,” I reply that I’m a nurse, to which he responds “I’m sorry, thank you anyway doc…”
It’s a good day in the ER…