Perfect Timing 1

Bet you were wondering about Perfect Timing 1 what with Perfect Timing 2. I was on ENT when this wonderful thing happened to me.

Some background. Ahem. My first day on Ortho I happened to toss my OWN scrubs into the bin where the community scrub jackets go; in essence, I threw one pair of my scrubs away, and us students only have 2 pair on our ID cards. Now I was down to one. So when you wear a pair to the med center and come home, there's no way to get a fresh pair for tomorrow. Plus, when you're on Surgery and the laundry services open at 8 and close at 2, you have to leave a bunch of freaked-out-med-student messages when you finally get off after 5 since you've been there since 5 and pray to God that they somehow put another scrub suit onto your card. Somehow, some way. Student Affairs said they couldn't help me.

So when I was on ENT, I took a clinic day with Dr. Wildman, a crazy Jewish surgeon. I wore professional clothes to clinic that day, and my one pair of scrubs was at home. Dr. Wildman gets a page from Plastics and he has to leave clinic and head to the OR straight away. After powerwalking through hallways he says to me "Ok see you in OR 9" and disappears through the men's locker room. He of course is already IN scrubs. So I run to the scrub machine hoping against hope that Laundry Services finally got one of those frantic messages and was able to do something about it...

And lo and behold, who is there but the man who STOCKS the scrub machine! He takes one look at me in my haste, says "Small?" and tosses me a pair. I thanked him so profusely, but he'll never know how perfect his timing was!