Top 10 Signs You Work in a Hospital

Sometimes you can tell what a person’s profession is just by observing their actions; accountants, engineers, and mechanics are pretty easy to spot. Other times, it’s the attitude that divulges everything. I here by present to you the top 10 signs you work in a hospital.

10. You wear other people’s bodily fluids and don’t think twice about it.

9. You can eat out of an emesis basin and not flinch.

8. Your diet at work consists of caffeine, caffeine, and more caffeine.

7. Having to wear clothes without an elastic waistband bothers you.

6. Pushing around a 50 pound computer is the easiest part of your day.

5. You can hold your bladder an entire 12 hour shift.

4. Sometimes your best days are when your patients are sedated and intubated.

3. You laugh when a patient calmly says that their pain is a 10 out of 10.

2. You’ve seen more body parts than a prostitute.

1. Going on a patient transport seems like a vacation.

As gross as it may sound, working in a hospital does have its good points. I have yet to find a more loyal, trustworthy, and friendly group of people as my co-workers. If I had to choose, I’d gladly wear sputum, vomit, or blood any day of the week in order to keep my exciting, and always interesting, job.