Things I'm learning in my medical ethics class:Amputating the wrong limb is bad.
Leaving surgical instruments in a patient, also bad.
(Also, if you leave instruments in a patient, in the future, those x-rays will be passed around a medical ethics class and the students will all laugh at what an idiot health care professional you are.)
If your medical co-worker is doing drugs, and you shun your responsibility to get that person some help, that is bad.
If your co-worker comes to work reeking of Red Bull and vodka, and you let that co-worker give a 90-year old man a tub bath, this is bad.
Over a dinner out with friends, do not name your patients and state all the crazy VDs they're currently in treatment for. This is bad.
Even if your patient is Johnny Depp, and it's his birthday, and all he wants for his birthday is you, sleeping with your patients is bad.
Even if your patient is George Clooney, and he looks at you the way he looked at Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight, and he insists that all it will take for him to get better is to spend some quality time in a locked car trunk with a naked you...resist, because if you don't, this is bad.
Even if your patient is Channing Tatum, and he comes in with nether regions scalded in an on-set accident, even if he professes to harboring fantasies of nurses in their mid-thirties, do not, I repeat, do not sleep with this patient. This would be bad.
Do not squirrel away Percocets for yourself. Also goes for Stadol, Demerol, Propofol, and a host of other pain-relievers that, in general, make the world a more hospitable place if only for a moment. Because this is bad.
Do not ignore a patient's head wound, resulting in flies laying eggs in that wound and then resulting in maggots in that wound, and then attempt to falsify documents to show that you did actually take care of the wound and oh my God, I have no idea how the maggots got there Your Honor. This would be bad.
(Also, a medical ethics class will then pass around newspaper articles detailing the charges against you and shake their heads collectively at what a horrible person you are being responsible for the vulnerable elderly and not fulfilling your charge. Jerk.)
Do not specialize in ENT and then bill yourself as a plastic surgeon and actually operate on people's faces and bodies. You will screw something up, perhaps kill someone, be sued, lose everything. And this is many, many layers of bad.
If you are an 18-year old, please rethink your decision to get liposuction. Because you might end up in the office of someone without the proper precautions and monitoring in their recovery room, who might not notice you turning blue and dying of a pulmonary embolism. In a doctor's office. Unbelievably. This is so horribly bad it's painful to think about.
Some people shouldn't be responsible for plants, much less human beings. This is frightening, and bad.
Perhaps for my own future well-being, I should reconsider my medical vocation, and instead focus on getting a job in Happy Kitten Sunshine Rainbow Land.
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I'm fine with all of those except the Clooney one. If he looks at me like he looks at JLo in Out of Sight, all bets are off...
You don't say! Amputating the wrong limb is BAD? WHO KNEW? Also, is it bad to amputate the wrong person by mistake?
What? Can't sleep with Johnny Depp or George Clooney? What about the "laminated card?" That should include some sort of medical ethics dispensation.
I would have to refer Channing Tatum to a pediatrician.
Suppose Johnny Depp comes in on MY birthday. Then it's all good, right?
I'm sure the demands of the medical profession would always be beyond me. In fact, to make myself feel better, I often say, "It's a good thing I'm not a doctor." I just could NOT shoulder that kind of responsibility for others.
Now I feel like I should check my most recent head wound for maggots. Thanks bunches.
You'll be just fine, K. I bet you can remember all of these, no problemo.
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