[ziravan]

Reminds me of a story. I’m an RN. Calm night on Tele unit.

Phone rings. Excited doctor, “How’s my patient! Have you started CPR yet!?”

“Nothing’s going on here, doctor.”

“I don’t have time for that. Here, tell this officer it’s an emergency!”

(Me, to officer) “This guy’s going to die if we don’t get our doctor here, right now!”

(Officer) “Right away!”

A few minutes later, doc shows up. After a police escort to the hospital, he was honor bound to come.

He tried the same thing at a different hospital. (Nurse to officer): “I have no idea what he’s talking about, everybody’s fine here.”

[outofsalt]

Denton Cooley, a world renowned heart surgeon at Texas Heart tells a story of speeding to the hospital and being pulled over by police. When asked for his license he said to the officer, “Don't you know who I am?”

The officer replied, “I don't care if you are Michael DeBakey, I want to see your license.”

(Dr. Debakey was truly a pioneering professor of open heart surgery at Texas Heart in his day.)