Being idle

This afternoon, I saw a very annoying scene. I was busy running around seeing pre-op patients and having tons of work to do, when I saw four, yes FOUR housemen at the nursing station totally idle. They were simply jobless, with nothing to do. And to make matters worse, that was what they were chit-chatting about; having nothing to do.

The irony is there will be plenty of such scenes to come in the near future as there continue to be too many housemen and shortage of medical officers. I heard that there will be yet another bunch of new housemen coming in end of this month, so I guess there will be even more idle days for them…