No Friday night drinking thread last night. I'm sorry. I missed you. I'm on call this weekend.

[Aristus]

Looking forward to next Friday. Getting buzzed, watching the Great British Baking Show, and hanging out with my beloved Loungers.

[Marthe48]

1. I checked before I went to bed

glad I didn't miss anything

Here's to a quiet on call weekend for you!

[Aristus]

3. Only had one call last night.

Thank God for nurse triage. Trained, battle-hardened professionals who have no reservations about telling a caller “This sounds like something that can wait for your primary care provider”, or “Do you really expect me to wake up the on-call provider for this shit???”

So no more getting calls on the ‘emergency’ line at 3 in the morning like: “Yeah, I just have some questions about COVID-19…”

[niyad]

2. And we missed you. I hope your weekend is quiet and uneventful.

[Aristus]

4. So far, so good.

[niyad]

5. Glad to hear that!

[Aristus]

6. I have a whole week to decide what drink I want to mix next Friday.

There are some recipes in my bar book that I will never try. The ones the call for grapefruit juice or (ugh!) clam juice, for example.

Otherwise, there are still hundreds left to experience. There’s a whole chapter on cocktails made with sake. So I need to get a bottle of it.

[niyad]

7. Decisions! Decisions! I skip anything with clam juice as well.

You will have to let us know about the sake. Only tried it once, not a fan.

I tried a Paloma. Again, not a fan.

[Aristus]

8. I've had sake straight up before.

Also not a huge fan, but like a lot of things in life, maybe I was doing it wrong.

[niyad]

9. A very small possibility, but cannot be entirely discounted. And it is

possible that I ws drinking an inferior sake.

[Aristus]

10. So there's an opportunity to see how it works as a mixer.

🍶

[berniesandersmittens]

11. Being on call is hard work

Especially when that call comes at 2am and you're in a deep sleep. I spent many years in that life.

Have a nice, uneventful weekend!

[Aristus]

12. With my new employer, it's not so bad. We have nurse triage.

They vet the calls to see if they're worth waking up the on-call provider. My old employer didn't have nurse triage. I got some of the stupidest non-emergency calls in the middle of the night imaginable.

*Half-awake, stifling a yawn* "Hello?..."

"Yeah, can you refill medication X for me?"

"How long have you been out of it?"

"Oh...about three weeks."

They called in the middle of the night, instead of during office hours at anytime in a three-week period. Like I don't need to be well-rested for the next day of clinic...

[Aristus]

14. I'm a Physician Assistant, not a doctor.

But yeah; I don’t sleep…