[Magdalen] I met Doogie Howser.

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/02/2016 16:37, ME Michaud wrote:
> I've probably told you this story. In 1985 the hospital had
> across-the-board layoffs.
> All the IV nurses were let go, (The jolly band of MBAs running the layoffs
> said the
> residents could handle this.) The poor kids failed miserably (O the
> stories!) and the
> IV nurses were all back in eight weeks.

I assume the people who had made the decision had never had an IV 
inseerted by a junior doctor.  It's one of the procedures where 
experience counts.

Roger