Drinking Blood And The Raffle

My patient needed blood, so I walked in the room with a unit and set it down on her table.

"I can't eat that," she said.

I explained that the blood was going to go in her veins; we weren't going to make her drink it.

"I'm a vegetarian," she replied.

I got a good laugh out of this. She got the blood anyway, she was too confused to refuse, but she got me thinking. Is it okay for vegetarians to get blood as long as it enters through their veins and not their mouth?

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The hospital Christmas party was a couple of weeks ago and people are still talking about what happened. If alcohol had been served, the lapse in judgment would have been more understandable, perhaps, but this was a dry party.

At this party given by a top hospital administrator, there was a drawing for prizes. The grand prize was a TV and guess who won it? The administrator who threw the party. How tacky is that? I don't particularly care who won the TV, but I am enjoying observing the brewing resentment and controversy. The employees are in two camps over this. One group thinks that the contest was rigged. The other group believes that she won through luck, but showed poor taste in entering her name in the drawing and then accepting the prize.

This is schadenfreude at its best. It's so enjoyable to watch someone you dislike fall on their face. And, no one even tripped her, she fell without anyone's help. *giggle*