Suck N' Blow

- "clubbing" no longer refers to the hitting up of the bar scene downtown

- you call someone "SOB" and are NOT calling them a son of a bitch

- you look at bigger people with no necks and think "man, they'd be a difficult intubation"

- SpO2, MDI, SOBOE, DPI, AECOPD, IPPA, FiO2 and R/A all mean something to you

- you DON'T encourage people to use cough medicines

- you measure the amount someone smokes in pack years

- you can hear the phrase "bronchial toilet" and not laugh

- you know the alveolar air equation backwards and forwards, in your sleep

- you know that the "breathing tube" doesn't actually go down the "throat" per se

- "pink and frothy" no longer describes that strawberry shake you had for lunch

- "blue bloater/pink puffer" means something to you

- you realize people really have no clue how to use an Aerochamber

- you get paged to use a "vibrator" while at work, and it's perfectly acceptable and even requested by staff and patients

- you can measure someone's RR just by walking by the patient

- you've been shot by an uncovered trach

- you know there's an "H", a "G" and no "F" in phlegm

- you call it a "ventilator", not a "respirator"

- you measure things by color, consistancy and smell

- you know "BiPAP" doesn't involve a smear

- A/C no longer stands for "air-conditioning"

- you take the best damn care of any patient