Beware the Plague

First the water turned dark red with oil and scum threatening the fish and other water life.

Then it rained from the heavens for days with frogs cropping up all over the land.

Then a plague of mosquitoes and flies overran the cities of man followed by wild lizards seemingly untamed.


Then the people developed boils, abscesses and infected gouty tophi. Then the elderly fell from their perches with broken hips and torn ankles.

What hath God wrought on this once peaceful land!

In the past week, the hospital has been deluged with a sea of sickly washing in with a multitude of diseases. An unprecedented calamity with the plague-infested victims clamouring at the doors to be let in at all hours from daybreak till dusk. The near Biblical nightmare is almost more than any of us can bear.

Dammit.

Paul : Didn't we see this patient last week?
Nurse : Yes, she came in for her hip replacement.
Paul : And she's back?
Nurse : She broke the other hip. And developed abscesses.
Paul : And who is this man?
Nurse : He got run over by a forklift.
Paul : And he's covered in boils as well. Are we getting the Ten Plagues of Egypt?
Nurse : Look out the window. The town is covered in pitch- black darkness too.
Paul : And we had frog infestations the week before. Then the insects. Damn. And to think I missed church last week.
Nurse : At least you're not the firstborn.
Paul : True.

Obviously March came in like a lion - with a shocking increase in the number of patients requiring non-stop surgeries for the entire week. It's beginning to feel like a particularly hectic episode of Grey's Anatomy.


This should knock you out sufficiently enough for surgery!
With such an indecent number of patients and only me left standing, obviously we had to resort to some rather rough and ready methods to deal with the crisis.