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the stone , still there , silent and reaching up for the blood that walks . no dreams with the cord cut . you sell it .

He's got this. He's got this! That's crazy. Couple months in here really do work wonders.

Otherwise minor MVA. Patient was picking their nose. Finger fractured as it was jammed further into the nostril and lodged in the nasal cavity. Who's up?

⠀ i'm so cooked. ⠀

"Riiight here." Arin wheeled it closer, and went about connecting it to the IV line. Patient weighed 77 Kgs, so. . . "We'll set the drip at 7 units per hour to start. Check glycemic levels each hour to see if we need to lower the rate."

Okay, okay, good. With a nurse standing by his side, he felt a little more confident — someone to lend a hand and put a stop to him if he ever started straying from the right path. Arin led the way down to bed number 12. "Patient is a 37 year old man with a known history of -

Ah, the exact same look he had on his very first day here! Vindicating, really, to see he was not the only one. "Yup! C'mon. Wanna help me with this DKA?"

allergies .. now let me take my nap

"Oh. Well." Vague gesturing at the entire ED. A 27 year old man is screaming from pain after breaking his leg in a motorbike accident. Four residents run to manage a traumatic pneumothorax. Two nurses hold down a child while a third tries to extract a blood sample. "Mess is -

definitely. ( looong cough. ) all good.

i'm fine. allergies are killing me and it's really hot in here, i'm all good

we're swamped today. gonna go take a power nap, come get me if you need me?

i'm kidding, renal failure. have to drink less. i'm already on. workin' a double

". . . The coffee?" He glanced over his shoulder. "Cafeteria."

that's private medical information, nurse han.

thanks, can't drink it though

"That's how you know I'm fully in tune with my surroundings." Does he look like a mess? Probably. But so does every other doctor in the ED, so he chalks it up to occupational hazards.

"In my own defense —" He walks around her to pick up the chart on the counter. "Have you seen how triage is looking?"

"I had four cups of coffee to endure the rest of the day with energy." . . . A smile.

morning!