I'm no Superman

I (appropriately, considering the circumstances) rewatched the first episode of Scrubs. The one where JD starts his internship and realizes that after 4 years of med school, he still doesn't know crap. I laughed then at the absurdity. I laugh now at the irony. And the scary thing is, there are thousands of us interns.

The triage nurse understands this (this being my incompetence, and near misses with incontinence), and so she distributes patients accordingly. First patient I saw today: deaf. Earwax was clogging his ears. On the up side, I figured this out even before looking in his ears (he told me he could hear himself talk just fine, but couldn't hear others at all. Saved me the trouble of doing a Rinne test myself). Kobe! On the down side, it took me almost 45 minutes to figure out all the charting that had to be done. Also, I don't actually know how to remove earwax, so I referred him to ENT. I think they use miniature shovels. I wonder if they also have small rakes, and hoes, and flower beds. They probably keep ear gardens.