You Might be in the Health Care Field If….

  • Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal is perfectly normal to you.
  • You find humor in other people’s stupidity.
  • You believe in serial spraying of Prozac.
  • Your idea of comforting a child is placing him in a papoose restraint.
  • You believe that “Shallow Gene Pool” should be a diagnosis.
  • You believe that the government should require a permit to reproduce.
  • You think unspeakable evil will befall you is anyone says: “Boy, it sure is quiet around here.”
  • When you are out in public, you compliment complete strangers on their veins.
  • You have ever wanted to hold a seminar entitled: “Suicide – Getting It Right The First Time.”
  • You have ever had to leave a patient’s room before laughing hysterically.
  • You think caffeine should be available in IV form.
  • You have ever restrained someone, and it was not a sexual experience.
  • You commonly utter the phrase: “What changed tonight at 2am that made this emergency after 6 months?!”
  • You believe that “Too Stupid To Live” should be a diagnosis.
  • You think putting a Valium salt lick in the ER waiting room is a novel idea.
  • When you mention vegetables, you are not thinking of a food group.
  • You have been exposed to so many x-rays you don’t even bother with birth control.
  • You have used the words “Healthcare Reform” to strike fear in the hearts of your co-workers.
  • You have heard, “Why, I don’t know how that got stuck there” too many times.