Night have their perks and I didn’t mind them too much when I was working hospital life, but I eventually realized it wasn’t conducive to a normal life with wife and kids with her working 9-5 and all of their sports shit going on through the years.
You even think about getting off the floor all together and working a clinic life??
Oof. I don’t think I could handle clinic life. I much prefer nights it’s just catching up to me. This contract is up at the end of summer, and I’ll either travel as a day walker in the ICU… or… go over to the organ procurement side of things. I’m already called the Grimm reaper for how well I can get a family to go to comfort care when it’s time. Might as well snatch those organs up too
It’s the southern charm it wins em over as I tell them plainly “their heart will most likely stop beating, and when it does there’s two paths:
They pass comfortably surrounded by family and loved ones with no pain.
I stand next to the bed, press on their chest 120x a min so hard I break their ribs, then possibly electrocute them to restart their heart… and do that until you tell me to stop.
Think about what they would want”
Then I smile and they say “you really break their ribs?”
And I say, “ummm yes. Usually. I’m trying to restart a heart. Gotta pump hard.”
Come to the dark side man!! I know you likely wouldn’t like to do it in Fl. with the heat and all of that. I do have to say, we have a nice strong breeze year round down in here in South Fl. though. Not quite as great as they Keys, but stays less than 90 degrees during summer compared to that cesspool of bugs, sweat, and humidity I used to embrace in south Atlanta.
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