In my previous position, I fielded more than one call mid-surgery, from
docs needing a "paper consult"  

Pam

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-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Stielstra [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:29 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: I have seen it all

Well, considering this story from today's London Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/03/congo-text-message-amputat
ion

maybe he wasn't so off base...!!!   I suppose it's better he looked up
the
procedure and wanted to do it "by the book" instead of winging it...
Eek.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Blackwell, Lisa <
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>
> I can't stand it anymore - I've got to share one of my favorites from 
> shortly after I began working here a number of years ago. We routinely

> kept high-theft books locked in the staff room (coincidentally next to

> my desk) when the library wasn't staffed (we are open 24X7 to staff). 
> An orthopedic surgery resident asked to borrow one of the very 
> expensive standard orthopedic surgery texts. I told him that he would 
> need to return the book before closing (which did not please him.) He 
> came in the next morning before I arrived and asked a coworker where 
> to find "the blonde who hoards the books in the back" and was told to 
> come back later. When I arrived he cornered me and told me that it was

> urgent that he check that book out because (get this) he had an 
> operation to perform that morning and he had to have the book in the 
> OR!!! I don't know about all of you but we don't encourage folks to 
> take our ref texts into the operating theater. "Surgery by the book"?!

> The coup de gras? He stormed out muttering that he'd just have to go
home and get his own copy...
> (note to self - get that doc's name - he sure won't be operating on 
> anyone in my family)
>
> Lisa Blackwell
> Serials Librarian
> Nationwide Children's Hospital
>
> >I am sure many of you can relate similar experiences. My recent 
> >experiences, and no, I am not making this up:.....
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