Heard in the Friday afternoon pacing lab:
Cardiologist: “Can we just start a timery thingy?”
Pacing tech: “You mean a clock?”
Cardiologist: “ ”
This is why they pay them the big bucks, folks! (Disclaimer: to be fair, he does actually have a brain the size of a planet, so…)
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Apparently orcas have been spotted at Island Bay beach this afternoon, and they were in Seatoun the other day. Cardiologist grumpy that nothing exciting like that ever happens in his suburb. He lives in Karori…
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Nothing like a sneaky 12 mg of adenosine to wake an anaesthetist up… (for the uninitiated: a couple of blank screens on the ECG trace and the monitoring alarms going wild)
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I’m not going to make fun of this cardiologist anymore – turns out he’s the one who stented my patient who had a perioperative MI on Tuesday, and saved his life. Thanks very much Mr Cardiologist, you lovely man!