Another Night at Work

We get dialysis patients in the ED. Not folks on scheduled dialysis (although we get those too sometimes), but folks from out of town who should be on scheduled dialysis and aren't. For legal reasons. If you get my drift and I think you do.

The other night we had an unusual patient. Nothing unusual wrong with him, but he knew the right people. Was married to an ICE agent*. So, while his agent-spouse was flying in from East Armpit, a bunch of local agents showed up to well-wish, "expedite" matters, and generally get in the way as cops do when one of their own winds up in my ED.

Interestingly enough, that night all the dialysis patients disappeared.

*For those who don't know, ICE is the Immigration Control and Enforcement division of Homeland Security. Yes, they're the new front for the MIB.