First weekend on call for Orthopaedics as an FY1. A male consultant surgeon threw an orange at a wall with such force that it exploded over the SHO because there was a typo on the handover sheet.

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The same person also punched a window because a patient had been moved to a different ward which meant we unexpectedly had to walk down a flight of stairs

Another time we were running down a flight of stairs (just on ward round, there was no emergency) and I said, “Careful Mr [redacted], your shoelace has come undone.” He stopped dead, turned to me and said, monotonously, “It was never tied in the first place.”

Y tho

Oh and re: the orange fiasco, the SHO just sat there finishing handover covered in bits of orange (https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Gesicht mit Freudentränen" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Freudentränen">) and ten minutes later the consultant muttered, “Sorry about the afterspray.”

Reader, I cried