8:30pm - Eating ice cream on the beach in Narraganset. Katy is not supposed to be on call, but due to miscommunication among her subordinates, receives a call from the hospital.
Lab: "Your patient's lab results from 3:30 this afternoon are in. His blood sugar level is 2."
Katy: "Great, so he is probably dead. Now I'm gonna have to go to a wake."
Minutes of discussion on the inappropriate hilarity of the lab taking so long to get those vital results back.
Jackie: "Wait, why would you have to go to the wake?"
Katy: "It's part of the hippocratic oath."
Sarah: "That's just plain ridiculous..."
T-shirt that Katy will inevitably have to wear to the wake, showing her support of the family on behalf of vacationing medical professionals everywhere:
*Disclaimer: It is not likely that Katy's patient actually died, as he is a long-time sufferer of diabetes and should have had the common sense to recognize his plummeting blood sugar level and give himself an insulin shot
Also, the lab result was very likely wrong. It happens so frequently that The most common response of health care professionals to the news of a life threatening lab result is, "That must not be right, we should redraw that lab..."
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