Normally when I ask patients what they had for breakfast during our theatre sign in, it’s to break the tension a bit and make the patient feel more relaxed (and/or torment them as part of my sick and twisted personality, if you want to take it that way – they’re not meant to have eaten within 6 hours before coming to theatre). Was not expecting my appendicectomy this morning to say he had half a packet of toffee pops at 1:30 this morning.
Tragic also that the surgical registrar didn’t know what toffee pops were. Clearly we’re not being strict enough with our citizenship requirements.