Viagra and A Cold Shower

With his wife and daughter present, the patient asked me to bring him some viagra. I looked at him blankly, trying to figure out if he was some kind of pervert or was just trying to be funny. Suddenly, his wife started laughing and said that he meant vicodin. What a relief to find out that he was only in pain and not looking for sex.

Walking by a bedside table tonight, I accidently knocked a picture of ice water on top of a patient. (I can't tell you how many times I have done that.) He was soaked from his waist to his toes and covered in crushed ice. No, it wasn't the viagra patient. This one didn't need cooling down, not that the other one did either, it turns out.