ICU is a great place to work. It's interesting and fun, and when you're a student and an outsider, you get to see some of the insane characters that work there. One doctor, "Manny" went on a rampage one day. The night duty nurses left a patient with a temperature of 40 degrees Celcius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) all night, and didn't do much to get it down - effectively making his brain cook itself.
Hannibal Lecter eating brain on the aeroplane, anyone? It's chilling. I could practically smell the Soy Sauce.
Manny then saw a nurse putting up a 5% Dextrose in 0.45% Saline drip. He picks the drip up and looks at me.. "Nurse, what I want you to do, is go to the top floor of this hospital and throw every one of these drips out the window. You know why? Because they are pure shit." I tried my best to avoid giggling but my friends Ariel and Cindy were becoming increasingly red-faced and that didn't help all that much.
Another crazy ol' coot is one of the Sisters in ICU who eats polystyrene cups and bowls. She sits there chewing away with polystyrene remnants all over her face and clothes, content as a pig in crap. Either she is hungry and can't afford food - or just plain insane.
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