Sunday, December 31, 2006

hello, yellow.

JAMIE:
[to attending]
I think he's jaundiced.

ATTENDING:
[looking straight on at jaundiced patient with ascites and cholelithiasis on CT scan
]
Really, where?!

JAMIE:
[wishing silently her pay check was a whole lot bigger]
Um, I don't know... his face, maybe?

ATTENDING:
[looking at patient again]
Yes, I guess you're right. He is jaundiced.

JAMIE:
[for the umpteenth time in three hours]
Do you think we can send him to the unit, now?

ATTENDING:
Yes, I think he needs an ICU bed.

JAMIE:
Thank you.

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