Nurse: Your patient in room 222 has a temperature of 43.5 Celsius and the computer notification went off that I need to tell you about that.
Me: Yeah, I'm sure it did because the computer is trying to tell us that there's no way that's possible.
Nurse: Well, he just got done with surgery and we took his temperature and that's what it was.
Me: Yeah...but that's over 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Nurse: Oh. Maybe we should retake it.
Me: Yeah, let's start with that.
Lo and behold, it was a normal 98.6.
To quote "Player Piano":
He who lives by technology, dies by technology. Sic sempre tyrannis.
Common sense is, like, hard and stuff.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that one, NeuroTrumpet.
DeleteI couldn't have, like, said it better myself !
- Paul
As a nurse I apologize for the lack of critical thinking by colleague displayed.
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