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A ham handed intern trying, six or seven times unsuccessfully, to take a blood sample for a bilirubin test on my newborn son, as I slid him up the wall by his throat: "He is due for a blood test at 1600" and my reply as I throttled him cheerfully while a nurse battered my back trying to get me off him was: "It's 2200, you idiot, and if you ever touch him again I am going to do a blood test on you, all over the floor."

Did he think I didn't understand 24 hour clock, or was he just that much of an idiot?

We picked a guy in scrubs up from a car wreck once, and as we were extricating him from the car, he started in telling us what to do. The EMT that was leading the effort told him he had two choices, to shut up and let us do what we were trained to do, or he could rescue himself. He shut up.

Never did find out what he did to wear scrubs, but one of the other members of the rescue squad told me he was a dental hygenist.