boobs

So I'm a guy right? I'm supposed to like boobs. I really don't anymore. Of of the duties of my new job is doing EKGs on people and as luck would have it, about 90 percent of all the EKGs I do are on women. Let me give some background. An EKG is a way of monitoring the electrical activity of the heart, which makes a nice squiggly little line that doctors can magically interpret into whether or not the person is dead, not dead or on their way to being dead. To get such a reading I have to attach 10 electrodes to the patient, 6 of which go on the chest in the under boob region. Some boobs are more equal than others which can be a pain in placing all those electrodes and wires leading to the EKG machine when you have to lift up double Ds just to find the ribcage. It's so damn akward too. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the comment "but you look so young." And here I am dealing with that and I have to come in and get all touchy feely with female patients just to do my job. I always feel dirty doing an EKG on a woman or I fear that the patient will think I'm some pervert who got his dream job. I've come to hate boobs and I try and do my electrode sticking as fast as possible. I relish doing EKGs on men 'cause most men walk around shirtless half the time anyway (plus no boobs). Was it worth quitting my job as a scrub tech, a job I knew I was good at, to take a new job that I may only hope to be at best mediocre?

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