The Cheering Section in the OR

So this week's clinical day ended with nearly everyone in tears because we were laughing so hard. One of the women in my clinical group (all of whom are fantastic) is hilariously dramatic. She is always so perky and funny about things. Normally i think it would bug me, but you can't help but love her! So she got to go down to watch a surgery on one of the patients on our floor. There was a bit of a hold up because the nasty plastic surgeon was a real bear and said absolutely no students. Somehow, Robin totally won him over. So she comes up from the surgery all flushed and glowing and immediately spilled the story of her fantastic stint in the OR. I don't think i'll be able to describe it well enough to really get across the true brilliance of it, but i still crack up just thinking about it.

So the doctor was all angry and cursing all over the operating room, all, "F this and F that", so after he yelled at a couple of people he got his way and started doing something (i can't remember exactly what happened), but Robin decided that his gruff nature would really need a little cheer- that would stroke his ego just enough. So in her cute little high pitched voice she claps her hands and says, "Yay Dr. Thompson!!". He turned around and took notice of her but kept acting all nasty to the other people in the room. I think something was going on and they were trying to figure out what to do with a wound on the leg, and she shouts "just close that sucker up Dr. Thompson, you can do it!". I think this is where she totally won him over. He laughed and went ahead with what he was doing. He even answered some of her questions when she asked what he was doing. Everyone else in the operating room was just looking at each other, like who is this girl? She kept it up through the end of the surgery, and as she was walking out someone, i guess, commented on how she was the only one able to deal with him. To which she flippantly replies with a little wrist flip, "he's a gentle boy, he needs a soft touch." and sashayed out of the OR. It was fantastic!! She is so cute and dramatic, i just wish i could do her justice. She totally won him over, and apparently he's a total ass to both his patients and other staff, so it's even funnier that a second semester nursing student was able to have such an impact!