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Originally Posted by Bruinrab
It's exciting, in small doses. Unfortunately, it comes at you so quickly that you don't have time to think about the magnitude of the suffering you're seeing every day. Over a month, it's actually a kind of punishment. You have to detach or you go crazy. I don't understand how people can spend a lifetime doing trauma.
Ah, the stories I could tell. 
-guy who got run over by a truck just months after having a stroke
-sisters who got head injuries after their car was rear-ended by a teenager on drugs
-toddler whose babysitter accidently backed over him with her SUV
-a John Doe who died in the OR a month after running into traffic (we were never able to identify him)
-donorcyclists galore
-folks who shot/hanged/etc themselves
-folks who were shot by other people
Donorcycle - n. a motorcycle. Refers to high likelihood that motorcycle riders involved in traumas are more likely to die.
Dude Brothers - two fictional brothers, This Dude and Some Dude, who go around shooting "innocent" victims. Together, they're known as Two Dudes. Typically referred to by a gang member after he's been shot: "I was doin' nothin'. I was sitting on my front porch minding my own business, reading my Bible, and This Dude/Some Dude came and shot me."
Two beers - the number of beers every patient involved in an alcohol-related automobile accident claims to have drunk before the accident.
Two dudes - The usual answer when doctors ask a patient who beat them up, as in "I was walking down the street minding my own business when these two dudes jumped me for no reason." The implication is that if it were only one dude the patient would have won the fight. |
subhaAllah, gazillion golden rep pts for sharing your invaluable experiences
i confess i find things like that interesting since this kind of stuff makes me appreciate life better and helps me see the goodness of living a jolly-good life.
and there is so much lessons to be learn even when we think we got it enough..or can't apply to our own life..
this incidences were eye-opener for me, i know i sound like a dork, but really..
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