Every Tuesday at 5:30 pm we have a meeting. We have many meetings in Meetings San Frontieres as I like to say, but no meeting is hated as much as the Tuesday medical meeting. It usually runs until at least 7 if not nearly 8. What we can talk about for 2 and a half hours is beyond me. We go around the table and each person talks about their department. What has happened this week. What was difficult. What the admission and discharge statistics were. Any changes or new patterns and plans for next week. Then, as if that weren't enough, because we are a democratic organization built on dramatic French style debate, everyone else goes around the table and discusses the information you have given and even if it is nowhere near their area of expertise, they "take your points, think on them, and then sit and discuss." This can go on for hours. Because like elbows and assholes, everyone also has an opinion.
So to combat boredom, anger, and the distinct possibility of fist fights, one of the doctors devised a plan to make the meetings much more entertaining. Say hello to Bullshit Bingo. Each square has a topic we anticipate will be "discussed" in it and when you get five in a row, stand up and say "BULLSHIT!" It has made things much more fun. I wouldn't say we look forward to the meetings, because really who looks forward to meetings? However, it's a welcome distraction from the painful fact that not only do all twenty of us live and work together, we also come close to killing each other on a daily basis. It goes with the territory. Of course, we'd need to "sit and discuss" which person was most deserving of an untimely end and how they should meet it. You know to continue with the idea of democracy and all. But first, we'd need to have a meeting to plan that meeting.
So to combat boredom, anger, and the distinct possibility of fist fights, one of the doctors devised a plan to make the meetings much more entertaining. Say hello to Bullshit Bingo. Each square has a topic we anticipate will be "discussed" in it and when you get five in a row, stand up and say "BULLSHIT!" It has made things much more fun. I wouldn't say we look forward to the meetings, because really who looks forward to meetings? However, it's a welcome distraction from the painful fact that not only do all twenty of us live and work together, we also come close to killing each other on a daily basis. It goes with the territory. Of course, we'd need to "sit and discuss" which person was most deserving of an untimely end and how they should meet it. You know to continue with the idea of democracy and all. But first, we'd need to have a meeting to plan that meeting.
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