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it on the floor. And, yes, I only brought one of them to the room.
• "Blah Blah Blah," Ke$ha. Some annual in-service training sessions are real-
ly boring.
• "Turn It On," Eli Young Band. Three words I hate to hear from the people at
the field when I'm crawling under the table trying to troubleshoot cranky
electronic equipment … and thought I had it fixed.
• "Knee Deep," Zac Brown Band. Any code brown is a bad code brown.
• "Disturbia," Rihanna. The 3-to-11 shift. If you've ever worked it, you under-
stand. (And you wouldn't want it any other way. I'll give you this, it's never
dull.)
• "Get Lucky," Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams. Some nights you're on call but,
amazingly, your pager doesn't go off.
• "Big Girls Don't Cry," Fergie. Because even on your roughest days, your
patients are looking to you for support and counting on you to provide
them with some.
• "Forget You," Cee Lo Green. Dedicated to everyone and everything that
made your day a waking nightmare. (If you're wearing a mask, you can
even lip-sync the non-radio-edit version.) Now, doesn't that feel better?
• "Gives You Hell," All-American Rejects. To the surgeon who treats his staff
and patients like morons: After surgery, we hope that the patient calls you
every single day. And then, that you get to be a patient yourself.
• "As Good As I Once Was," Toby Keith. To all the longtime nurses who are still
wearing the scrubs: We just keep getting better.
• "Daughters," John Mayer. To all the longtime nurses, when we're meeting
the new hires at our facilities: Teach the next generation well.
• "Let It Go," Idina Menzel. At the end of the case, after all the blood, after all
the yelling, as soon as the patient is in the capable hands of the PACU nurs-
es, stop in the hall, close your eyes, take a deep breath and let it go.
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Ms. Watkins can be reached at pwatkins12@comcast.net.