/sci/ - Science & Math

>residency anesthesiology
>23yo welder comes in for a tonsillectomy
>easy job, can basically do it with gas alone, even the nurses could probably do it without killing him
>attending wants to observe me ask pre-op questions and weigh him, ask about drugs etc.
>He goes off on a tangent about how it was hard to get his mail order bride here because of covid restrictions
>ok
>have you eaten anything today?
>"oh yes I had a burger and a beer, I got the day off"
>look at him like pic
>Didn't you read the pamphlet we sent you?
>attending basically calls him a retard and sends him home
>next patient is an immigrant kid also in for a tonsillectomy, mother bought kid a hotdog because she was hungry
Sometimes I think I chose the wrong specialty