Tuesday Naked Tuesday
“But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.”
- Bob Dylan
I just got home from my inpatient psychiatry rotation. I’m leaving in a few minutes to catch a quick BYOM (bring your own mom) happy hour with my fellow psych residents. I wore a dress today. Is that what inspired the mayhem?
As I walked onto the unit today, I was immediately greeted by:
1. A female patient running naked down the hallway. She was manic. I helped her into her room and got her clothes back on.
2. Then my male patient disrobed and became combative. I found his clothes and managed to get them on him.
3. Seconds later I heard a loud thumping noise in another room. One patient, not mine, was naked and about to assault his roommate over the loss of a dollar. I restrained him, after he took a swing at me, punched his roommate, and threw his urinal at him. Luckily, my medical students were around to alert the nurses to bring a PRN.
I love my job. I really do.
Photo: “The Dominican Way.” I love that “Dominican” reminds me not of the Dominican Republic, but my previous home, Dominica.