You know when....

[Amiens]

I know that this isn't really a top ten list, but I thought it would be fun. Feel free to add to it!



You know when you significant other is a medical student/intern/resident/attending when...



- you sport "cool" free green/blue pajamas as your lounge wear (aka scrubs) that your significant other brings home from the hospital (ps- they make great maternity sleepwear!)

- drug dinners are your "date night"

- you have an eternal supply of pens, notepads, and sticky pads given by drug reps

- your first aid kit is state of the art due to the "left-overs" or unused kits for a procedure that your significant other brings home from the hospital- suture kits, local anesthetic, etc.

- you were and always will be their "practice" patient, meaning you can sit still for eye exams, and a variety of other physical exam skills

- q3, q4, or q5 are common terminology in your vocabulary, and you might even understand a bit of medical shorthand terminology

- the majority of the books in your bookcase are medically related



Crystal

[Amiens]

I know that this isn't really a top ten list, but I thought it would be fun. Feel free to add to it!



You know when you significant other is a medical student/intern/resident/attending when...



- you sport "cool" free green/blue pajamas as your lounge wear (aka scrubs) that your significant other brings home from the hospital (ps- they make great maternity sleepwear!)

- drug dinners are your "date night"

- you have an eternal supply of pens, notepads, and sticky pads given by drug reps

- your first aid kit is state of the art due to the "left-overs" or unused kits for a procedure that your significant other brings home from the hospital- suture kits, local anesthetic, etc.

- you were and always will be their "practice" patient, meaning you can sit still for eye exams, and a variety of other physical exam skills

- q3, q4, or q5 are common terminology in your vocabulary, and you might even understand a bit of medical shorthand terminology

- the majority of the books in your bookcase are medically related



Crystal

[Amiens]

I know that this isn't really a top ten list, but I thought it would be fun. Feel free to add to it!



You know when you significant other is a medical student/intern/resident/attending when...



- you sport "cool" free green/blue pajamas as your lounge wear (aka scrubs) that your significant other brings home from the hospital (ps- they make great maternity sleepwear!)

- drug dinners are your "date night"

- you have an eternal supply of pens, notepads, and sticky pads given by drug reps

- your first aid kit is state of the art due to the "left-overs" or unused kits for a procedure that your significant other brings home from the hospital- suture kits, local anesthetic, etc.

- you were and always will be their "practice" patient, meaning you can sit still for eye exams, and a variety of other physical exam skills

- q3, q4, or q5 are common terminology in your vocabulary, and you might even understand a bit of medical shorthand terminology

- the majority of the books in your bookcase are medically related



Crystal

~your debtload outstrips your potential income!

~you deliver your baby after the epidural has stopped working with all of the "friends" you have met at drug dinners standing at the foot of the bed waiting to catch the little bundle of joy and wisk him off to the NICU (egads....I couldn't look some of them in the face ever again!!)

~your calendar year begins in July, not January...





OK...I'm still thinking on these...but they are getting tough! I love this topic....



Kris

~your debtload outstrips your potential income!

~you deliver your baby after the epidural has stopped working with all of the "friends" you have met at drug dinners standing at the foot of the bed waiting to catch the little bundle of joy and wisk him off to the NICU (egads....I couldn't look some of them in the face ever again!!)

~your calendar year begins in July, not January...





OK...I'm still thinking on these...but they are getting tough! I love this topic....



Kris

~your debtload outstrips your potential income!

~you deliver your baby after the epidural has stopped working with all of the "friends" you have met at drug dinners standing at the foot of the bed waiting to catch the little bundle of joy and wisk him off to the NICU (egads....I couldn't look some of them in the face ever again!!)

~your calendar year begins in July, not January...





OK...I'm still thinking on these...but they are getting tough! I love this topic....



Kris

Those are great! I've got a few...



- You can knock your spouse unconscious for the night by pressing "Play" on the VCR



- You pay your bills with a Zithromax pen (or, for pediatrics spouses, an Enfamil pen)



- You know better than to bring up a touchy emotional issue the night before a call shift, but you foolishly do it anyway



- You haven't had to buy your own Tylenol, Ibuprofen, Sudafed or Claritin in years



- You have ever found any of the following at a random location within your house: microscope slides, hemastats, procedure cards, otoscope attachments, pager clips



- You have ever had this conversation:

YOU: "How was your night?"

YOUR SPOUSE: "Pretty good. I slept for almost two hours and was only interrupted five times."



- Your spouse has ever apologized for not returning your page because they had to go to the bathroom really, really badly and only had time to do one or the other



- You have ever had to ask an entire table full of people at a formal dinner if they would mind not discussing manual disimpaction during the main course

Those are great! I've got a few...



- You can knock your spouse unconscious for the night by pressing "Play" on the VCR



- You pay your bills with a Zithromax pen (or, for pediatrics spouses, an Enfamil pen)



- You know better than to bring up a touchy emotional issue the night before a call shift, but you foolishly do it anyway



- You haven't had to buy your own Tylenol, Ibuprofen, Sudafed or Claritin in years



- You have ever found any of the following at a random location within your house: microscope slides, hemastats, procedure cards, otoscope attachments, pager clips



- You have ever had this conversation:

YOU: "How was your night?"

YOUR SPOUSE: "Pretty good. I slept for almost two hours and was only interrupted five times."



- Your spouse has ever apologized for not returning your page because they had to go to the bathroom really, really badly and only had time to do one or the other



- You have ever had to ask an entire table full of people at a formal dinner if they would mind not discussing manual disimpaction during the main course

Those are great! I've got a few...



- You can knock your spouse unconscious for the night by pressing "Play" on the VCR



- You pay your bills with a Zithromax pen (or, for pediatrics spouses, an Enfamil pen)



- You know better than to bring up a touchy emotional issue the night before a call shift, but you foolishly do it anyway



- You haven't had to buy your own Tylenol, Ibuprofen, Sudafed or Claritin in years



- You have ever found any of the following at a random location within your house: microscope slides, hemastats, procedure cards, otoscope attachments, pager clips



- You have ever had this conversation:

YOU: "How was your night?"

YOUR SPOUSE: "Pretty good. I slept for almost two hours and was only interrupted five times."



- Your spouse has ever apologized for not returning your page because they had to go to the bathroom really, really badly and only had time to do one or the other



- You have ever had to ask an entire table full of people at a formal dinner if they would mind not discussing manual disimpaction during the main course

[Amiens]

- what's even worse about finding random items such as microscope slides, hemastats, procedure cards, otoscope attachments, etc. is that you know how to use them!



- You nor your children go to see the doc unless it something your significant other can't figure out what's wrong themselves.



- you give out basic medical advice to your friends about why you should take prenatals or a variety of other topics.



- family members only call you on the telephone to ask for medial advice.



- you get a call from your significant other telling you that it is a "slow" night, he/she has a single call room with a TV/VCR. So you pick up a movie and go and see them, only to not get through the movie due to pager interuptions from nurses and the attending.

[Amiens]

- what's even worse about finding random items such as microscope slides, hemastats, procedure cards, otoscope attachments, etc. is that you know how to use them!



- You nor your children go to see the doc unless it something your significant other can't figure out what's wrong themselves.



- you give out basic medical advice to your friends about why you should take prenatals or a variety of other topics.



- family members only call you on the telephone to ask for medial advice.



- you get a call from your significant other telling you that it is a "slow" night, he/she has a single call room with a TV/VCR. So you pick up a movie and go and see them, only to not get through the movie due to pager interuptions from nurses and the attending.

[Amiens]

- what's even worse about finding random items such as microscope slides, hemastats, procedure cards, otoscope attachments, etc. is that you know how to use them!



- You nor your children go to see the doc unless it something your significant other can't figure out what's wrong themselves.



- you give out basic medical advice to your friends about why you should take prenatals or a variety of other topics.



- family members only call you on the telephone to ask for medial advice.



- you get a call from your significant other telling you that it is a "slow" night, he/she has a single call room with a TV/VCR. So you pick up a movie and go and see them, only to not get through the movie due to pager interuptions from nurses and the attending.

[DCJenn]

-not only is the enitire office filled with medical books, the entiore living room is filled with medical journals...



-you actually read and and understand the medical journals...



-every check is indeed written with an emfamil pen- and your spouse has no idea what's been paid, what hasn't, what's due, what's not due and wouldn't know where to find the aforementioned checkbook if his/her life depended upon it. (Thank God)



-your spouse becomes the medical consultant be default to your entire office...(can you ask Rick if my grandson needs to see an ENT, I need to talk to Rick about vaccinations, or the best- my nurses 3 year old told his pediatrician that "My mommy beats me every day- started laughing and wouldn't recant... can I ask Rick what he would do?)



-q anything means bad food, bad tv and the bed to oneself....which sometimes is a beautiful thing



that's all for now!



Jenn

[DCJenn]

-not only is the enitire office filled with medical books, the entiore living room is filled with medical journals...



-you actually read and and understand the medical journals...



-every check is indeed written with an emfamil pen- and your spouse has no idea what's been paid, what hasn't, what's due, what's not due and wouldn't know where to find the aforementioned checkbook if his/her life depended upon it. (Thank God)



-your spouse becomes the medical consultant be default to your entire office...(can you ask Rick if my grandson needs to see an ENT, I need to talk to Rick about vaccinations, or the best- my nurses 3 year old told his pediatrician that "My mommy beats me every day- started laughing and wouldn't recant... can I ask Rick what he would do?)



-q anything means bad food, bad tv and the bed to oneself....which sometimes is a beautiful thing



that's all for now!



Jenn

[DCJenn]

-not only is the enitire office filled with medical books, the entiore living room is filled with medical journals...



-you actually read and and understand the medical journals...



-every check is indeed written with an emfamil pen- and your spouse has no idea what's been paid, what hasn't, what's due, what's not due and wouldn't know where to find the aforementioned checkbook if his/her life depended upon it. (Thank God)



-your spouse becomes the medical consultant be default to your entire office...(can you ask Rick if my grandson needs to see an ENT, I need to talk to Rick about vaccinations, or the best- my nurses 3 year old told his pediatrician that "My mommy beats me every day- started laughing and wouldn't recant... can I ask Rick what he would do?)



-q anything means bad food, bad tv and the bed to oneself....which sometimes is a beautiful thing



that's all for now!



Jenn