Making rounds with a surgeon one evening, he asked a confused elderly man if there was anything he wanted or needed. Not missing a beat, nor cracking a smile, the old man says " a colt 45, a Marlboro and some *****..."
I was fresh out of nursing school in the early 1990s, and working night shift in I C U... we got an elderly gentleman admitted, history of cardiac arrest, diagnosis chest pain rule out m.i....he hadn't eaten for 3 days and he asked for a bologna sand...