Pissing off the ER doctor means no sleep for you. So even when they are being idiotic and asking you for permission to discharge a patient home, which permission you are not allowed to give on the basis that you are the resident and not the fellow or attending and therefore have no say in anything, please try to be nicer (I know, I know, you were super nice… but there was that note of baffled condension in your voice).

I knew that going into call with no patients was a call for badness. Nature abhors a vacuum, after all.

*heads off to admit yet another patient*