The Witch Doctor's avatarTales of a Whiskey

I had just walked into the ER for my shift. I went into our break room that we call “the bucket” for reasons unknown to me. My only guess was because it’s the place to go when all you want to say is “fu$&-it”. But ya know, we can’t call it “the fu$&-it”, so we call it “the bucket”. I sat my stuff down in the corner and asked somebody if it was a busy night. So far so good and I was optimistic to how the night would go. Then someone said to hurry up and get out there because something good was coming in.

“Something good” to me is a trauma alert, or a code, or a red medical patient. However I wasn’t seeing anything like that or hearing anything like that on the radio. I went to the trauma room and didn’t see anybody really busy so…

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