The Ice Queen Strikes Back

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Alas, this is me after a run in with the Ice Queen bitchosaurus of a registrar who made me stay behind late on a 10 hour shift by insisting that I clerk one more patient in the last 20 mins. She only had three fucking patients to be clerked and there were still two SHOs, a HO and herself after I went so it wasn't like they were drowning in referrals. I thought maybe she'd forgotten that I was supposed to go home at 7pm so I tried a little friendly tug at the heart strings by inquiring if she might have a reasonably simple one I could see quickly so I could get off on time (I later realised that said strings were not in fact attached to any heart, but to a cold, dark stone that remained resolutely unmoved by all tugging). There was a moment's pause before she looked up from her list, her naturally miserable face set like marble, and instantly froze me to the spot with her icey reply: as an SHO you should be seeing a patient every 15 mins! "OK.", I said slowly; "you horrible, bastard-faced, cold-hearted, evil bitch!", I thought quickly. Then, just to make sure I knew who was boss, she handed me some 900 year-old patient with "?TIA, decreasing mobility and confusion". A history and full neuro exam on some garrulous old baggage who barely even knows what day of the week it is never mind what's brought her in to hospital - that's just cruel!

No wonder I ended up having to be stretched out of the hospital at 7:40pm in the state shown above: worked to the bone and frozen to the core by the evil Ice Queen registrar.