Tuesday, April 04, 2006

PULLING A MARK FINNERAN

Back in the '80s (g-d....did I just say that?) I was working @ OSU Hospitals. During the monthly rotations of med students, I happened upon one named Mark Finneran. A nice chap. Friendly and approachable. You'd think med students would need to be nice to find their way - but they get that chip on their shoulder fairly early on (I mean, not you Andrew!). Mark was nice. He was a big football kind of guy and no surprise he went into orthopedic surgery. I mean - don't they all?

So Mark comes around the corner and sits down to chart. I'm minding my own business and hear this 'rrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiipppppppppp'. I turn around and the poor guy is beet red. I go, "did you just........?". He nods. He'd been caught. Ruckiry (not Jon's boss) no one else was around and he could scamper off to his call-room to put on scrubs. Problem solved!

Why do I mention this? Well today I'm in a series of meeting w/anesthesiology and finally decide to get lunch. I stop to talk to two of my medical assistants and go to leave. I hear them stop one of my nurses - I keep going. Well, turns out somewhere during the day, I pulled a Mark Finneran....except I didn't hear it. Or feel it. Shouldn't there have been some kind of breeze??

Ellen, the nurse, tracks me down to tell me b/c the others didn't know how to tell me. THANKS! By the time Ellen gets to me, I'm in the lobby of a very crowded hospital! Thanks again!

These are the times I'm glad I keep a few suits in my office. I swapped out - and could do nothing but laugh about it.

At least I wasn't going commando or anything!!!!!

(NOTE: Morty left me an email comment that makes me think I wasn't clear enough. I split my pants. Not SHIT my pants! Geeesh!)

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, thank g-d! I was horrified that a nurse had to track you down to tell you such a thing.

Split pants makes much more sense.

Blobby said...

I'd like to think I'd know if I crapped my pants or not!

Blobby said...

Girls have flies??

I guess some girls would - but those aren't really 'girls'.

Anonymous said...

LOL...Poor Blobby..I remember the Finneran story well. Oh how we laughed and laughed at his expense.....

Good times
Good times...

Anonymous said...

Webster says that you rrrrrriiiiippppppp a FART, not a CRAP - I was also confused.....

Blobby said...

Listen 'anonymous' (or, as I call you - 'David'!), show me the Webster entry. Or maybe you just mean that little black kid.