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Lately, if you're upset around her, she will come over to you and wrinkle her little toddler brow and say, "Okay? Okay?"

And if you say anything other than an affirmative she will gently pat whatever body part is closest and say, "So brave! So brave! Yay! I'm so proud!"

And then you're less upset because this little half-wild human who is basically in the process of domesticating herself has told you that you're brave and she's proud of you, and it's so sweet and funny and unexpected, and once you're happier and finish your thing and aren't as upset she says "Hand?"

Then she takes your hand and drags you to the nearest animal and shows you how to pet them, or takes you to the door and once you let her outside she drags you to the garden tower and starts showing you how to smell or touch the plants, and then she asks "Okay?" and of course you're okay at that point and then she smiles at you and takes you over to play with her chalk or her building blocks

Yes

Yes, we do love a well-insured queen

(Incidentally I'm sure we also love queens with bad insurance or no insurance, but that wasn't the situation we were discussing)

I never would've spoken to my attendings so casually but I think it's amazing so I'm pretty tickled

Coworker 2: Oh, thank you! Did you like it?

Coworker 1: I sure did! Sonic, do you read fairy smut?

Me: No, but I'm open to trying!

Me: Excuse me, I'm an adult, I'm a doctor, y'all can't tell me what to do

Aunt Sonic: Uh-huh, would you like to try that again?

So I sat down at my desk in clinic and opened my inbox and saw that one of my new patients who I've yet to meet had seen a cardiothoracic surgeon for a postop appointment

I skimmed the note and skipped to the plan where I saw the surgeon halved the patient's beta-blocker - totally reasonable and in his wheelhouse - but then he followed it up by writing, "Now that the surgery is over, it seems likely some of the patient's other meds can also be stopped, i.e. lamictal and loratidine, but defer to PCP"

Lamictal and loratidine, y'all

I blinked, read it again because surely I must be hallucinating that recommendation, read it a third time in case I'd hallucinated twice, turned to my medical partner who had just walked in, and rather than politely wishing them a good morning, I asked, "Did heart surgery start to cure bipolar and seasonal allergies when I wasn't paying attention?"

My medical partner kindly assured me no, heart surgery does not cure bipolar and seasonal allergies, why did I ask?

Reader, his father had switched his soap to Irish Spring

"Okay, well, switch back to something gentle and unscented, but make sure it's unscented, you have to check the ingredients."

His father called today saying he was cured

Me: I don't know, would it score points with admin if I continued to heroically clear my inbox while the flames surrounded me?

Clinic RN: Probably not, it's hard to come by doctors around here so they'd rather have you alive and with a full inbox than dead with an empty one

I would've given a tooth for the resources we have here

My patients and friends and colleagues are still back there and I left them

What am I doing here?" numbers probably in the teens at this point

But that's not topical to the meeting so I don't ask that, and even if it were I don't know the speaker's name because I was introduced to more people in a week than I've worked with in six years and apparently I just can't remember that many names anymore, so I'm not sure how to get their attention and it's all kind of moot, anyway, plus we do need things like enough radiology techs to get urgent OB ultrasounds in less than 3 weeks

Still