On those particularly crazy busy days. Those days when the traumas don't seem to stop. We look for a reason why. Why does it never stop? And usually we settle on the ominous "black cloud." The said "cloud" being a specific resident or Attending who when they take call coincides with these difficult days/nights.
I say "coincides" as if it happens by chance. But it's legitimate enough that I inwardly grown when I see certain names on call, because I know to expect a super busy shift.
At Westchester the trauma team actually made it official this year. They got a black cloud pin and at the end of each month they tally traumas for each Attending and award the black cloud to whomever saw the most trauma that month.
Today though we gave the black cloud a break and blamed the Winter Solstice instead. The earth rotated with too dramatic of a jolt. All those unsteady of cane and wobbly of knee hit the ground hard.
Much Love.
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