surge.

these are dark times, my friends.  all of the area hospitals are bursting at the seams, beds are nonexistent, and we are having a thing called "surge capacity" that means that we have to clear out physician and nurse work rooms and stick patients in them.

it's a pandemic!!  it's an epidemic!!

it's a bunch of people with acute-on-chronic lung problems who were too lazy (or something) to get their flu shots.

it is scary, though.  the whole hospital is short staffed.  we're admitting patients to PACU, day surgery, and random makeshift rooms throughout the hospital.  there are no ICU beds, so you'd better pray that your patients don't get sick.  no one can transfer off the floor to anywhere else, so we're doing a bunch of random things like managing patients who need continuous EEG monitoring and other crap we know nothing about.

we're getting by on a wing and a prayer.

also with lots and lots of caffeine.

so if people could actually get vaccinated next year so we don't have to do this again, that would be great.  thank you in advance for your cooperation.

now i'm going to excuse myself so i can sleep for a few hours before i have to go back to work and run myself into the ground some more.

go team!!