“why do you keep paging me? don’t you know i need some sleep, and i’m really tired?”
- from an on call intern who finally turned on his pager after the resident woke him up because he has not returned a page for a little over two hours.

let me just say this: since he was not even joking when he asked…either this doctor has some really loose screws, or amnesia just washed over his tired body and he completely forgot that it takes some sacrifice and endless sleepless nights before he can add those two letters after his name.

the pager was invented not just to annoy you, but to actually help the patients. sometimes, it’s not just about you.

next time you ask doctor A, i will hypnotize you, so you will remember why you wanted to be a doctor. or, i can also hypnotize you, so you will forget the idea that you are in the hospital to get some rest.