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would you find it quite hard to start a family and/or raise children with hours like those?

saturn wrote:Last night was crazy, a few reanimations

I know it's a translation thing, but every time you say "reanimation", I can't get this image out of my head (in English, it's "resuscitation" for both correction of intravascular volume and CPR):





Sounds pretty crazy where you're working. We're rather more low-tech most of the time in Edmonton, although we do have an incredibly unhealthy population which means you regularly get MIs in the under-40s, plenty of TB and people walking in with PCP pneumonia without the slightest idea of what AIDS even is.

zeeko wrote:would you find it quite hard to start a family and/or raise children with hours like those?

It's hard enough trying to get it up in the first place, to be brutally honest. But again, lots of coffee helps.

That's why I find it really hard not to crack up when I have to examine a female patient and they insist on a female doctor - really, all of the Casualty staff are far too knackered to get up to any malpractice

saturn wrote:

Massive Quasars wrote:Doctors should be medicated so they can be kept awake and alert for an extended period of time.

We do that all the time my young padwan. It's called: "large amounts of black coffee".

I was thinking more along the lines of modafinil.

Geebs wrote:

saturn wrote:Last night was crazy, a few reanimations

I know it's a translation thing, but every time you say "reanimation", I can't get this image out of my head (in English, it's "resuscitation" for both correction of intravascular volume and CPR):

Sounds pretty crazy where you're working. We're rather more low-tech most of the time in Edmonton, although we do have an incredibly unhealthy population which means you regularly get MIs in the under-40s, plenty of TB and people walking in with PCP pneumonia without the slightest idea of what AIDS even is.

lol, i was thinking that I was typing the wrong word. We call resuscitation "reanimeren" here.

I'm working in the academic hospital of Rotterdam so all the crazy shit from a big region comes here. Also, it's the traumacenter of south-west holland with the flying cowboys of Mobile Medical Team located here.

Where's Edmonton in the UK? Is it part of London?

Massive Quasars wrote:

saturn wrote:

Massive Quasars wrote:Doctors should be medicated so they can be kept awake and alert for an extended period of time.

We do that all the time my young padwan. It's called: "large amounts of black coffee".

I was thinking more along the lines of modafinil.

sounds interesting

not only for narcoleptics

saturn wrote:lol, i was thinking that I was typing the wrong word. We call resuscitation "reanimeren" here.

I'm working in the academic hospital of Rotterdam so all the crazy shit from a big region comes here. Also, it's the traumacenter of south-west holland with the flying cowboys of Mobile Medical Team located here.

Where's Edmonton in the UK? Is it part of London?

Yeah, it's a real shithole in north east london. Patient population is Africans, Afro-Caribbeans, Turks, Cypriots, random Eastern Europeans of various flavours up to and including Kurds (try not to mix them up with the Turks.....), Irish, white trash heroin addicts, and the odd Chinese. Most of them don't speak a word of english (and I mean a single word - there are shops you can walk into in this part of London where if english is the only language you speak, you simply won't get served). It's great fun because all the history-taking is done through their 6 year old kid, hence "tell your mommy she has a thing called 'gonorrhea'. No, I don't know how she got it....."

Basically it's rather like being a vet.

So what did you both think of the danish hospital series, The Kingdom?