Humor in Uniiform 4/26/2011

[R J]

4/26/2011
There was a long-standing practice at our hospital in Virginia that physicians with the rank of major or above did not have to rotate through nighttime emergency-room duty.  A new commanding officer, however, issued an order that all physicians, regardless of rank, must take ER call.   On his first night of ER duty, our pathologist, a major, had to see a colonel's wife who was complaining of an abdominal pain.   "I'll try to evaluate you as best as I can," he said after introducing himself.  "But I must inform you that you are the first living patient I've seen in fifteen years."
James R. Raymond,  M.D.