Nuthin’ Says “Happy Holidays!” Like a Code Green
Posted by realityrounds on December 23, 2009
All the health care worker elves are so busy at the station,
Cuz from December to Jan-u-ary, you can’t take no vacation.
So we work and we work, and keep the bitchin’ to ourselves,
Cuz’ holidays don’t exist for the health care worker elves.
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and at the station the angry elf , he don’t care, don’t give a shit.
He is so very mad, he is so very entitled.
He want what he want, and he don’t care bout what is vital.
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Us health care workers elves, we stay calm, we say “don’t be mean.”
But the angry elf just escalates, we must call a mean “Code Green!”
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“Code Green! Code Green”! A color we do not want to hear.
A color festive for the holidays
But in the big house brings only fear.
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And Santa’s security helpers ,they all come a runnin’
They tell the mean ole’ elf to take his story walkin’.
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So the health care worker elves
Watch the activity in silent night
We shake our heads in saddness
We know there is no light.
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Will mean ole’ elf who threatened us
Get the help he does not want?
Will next Christmas bring him
The souls he still does haunt?
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Us health care elves will think the best
Of peace for all, not one.
God bless us health care elves,
God bless us everyone.
MomTFH said
God bless the health care elves, every one!
Ugh on the code green. Whenever I have to deal with an angry person, I try to remember that my interaction with them hopefully ends with security. It sucks, but it’s over. As you said, will that elf get the help he needs? It must suck even more to be that guy, thrown out of a hospital, and still stuck with himself.
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midwest woman said
many a doc I wish I could call a code green on.
Merrt Christmas RR and the best to you and your family.
Dr.Dean said
“Why can’t we all just get along?”, as Rodney K., the famous philosopher was quoted as saying. Poetry always helps to soothe the soul.
Valerie said
Have you read the book “Code Green” by Dana Weinberg?
realityrounds said
No. What is it about?
Open call, please share and repost « Mom’s Tinfoil Hat said
[...] I am going to jot down items to look up. I already have some ideas. I know of many blogs out there for people with different disabilities, so I can search them for the easy to find encounters-with-medical-personnel horror stories. I know I can find plenty of health care practitioner bloggers out there (you know who you are) and pull something about a code green. [...]
Art Doctor said
Yikes- I thought it was external air alert- code white for us is violent pt.. funny poem! I’ll share it wi. staff. Merry Christmas- at least there are fresh Walker’s Shortbread to nibble on