Posted on 03/02/2011 1:43:18 PM PST by nuconvert
The elderly patient was lying on a stretcher in the emergency ward’s waiting room, right under the television.
Adam Lund was trying to have a private conversation with his patient, who was near the end of life and had problems that had suddenly flared up. The doctor was acutely aware he was having this discussion in front of an audience.
“Everybody in the waiting room was sitting with their eyes on the television, trying to pretend that we were not doing patient-care right underneath them. They were either watching us do ER live or watching what was on television,” he said Tuesday in an interview.
That’s when he thought the overflow patients from the emergency room at New Westminster’s Royal Columbian Hospital would be better off at the adjacent coffee shop.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
-Eh George!
-Quoi Maurice?
-C’est-tu vrai qu’il faut que t’en aille a l’hopital a matin?
-Ben oui Maurice. C’pour mon tabernack’ de colonoscopie.
-Chez Dunkin ou ben Horton?
-Ben - Horton surement! Ils ont ces p’tits trous!
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Lol (fortunately, I understood that)
LOL. I just came from spending Christmas with my family in BC, and even though I love Timmy H timbits, the coffee is just overrated.
I looked up the cuss word
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