We were greeted on our first day of radiology with extensive exhortations not to take food or beverages into the reading room (the room with all the computers where the radiologists work). The food rule, it was explained, was to avoid mice. Fair enough. Then we were told that beverages used to be allowed, until the day some hapless student dropped an unopened can of Coke on the floor and it exploded all over his attending. From that day forward, no drinks.
This news was heralded with some mild grumbling, of course, but we took it in stride.
Then, what did our innocent disbelieving eyes see, but this:
What is that, there, in his hand? we asked ourselves. What is that attending holding?
The answer? Coffee. (If you can't make it out in the blurry cell-phone close-up taken in a dark room, trust me. That's what it is.)
Was this for real? Surely it was just a fluke! After all, Beverages Aren't Allowed In The Reading Room.
Alas, we learned it was not just an aberration, as we became more and more jaded over the following weeks. Observe (and note that all the photos in this post were taken over the course of one day).
Illegal water bottle:
Illegal pop can:
Illegal (and very hard to see from across the room, I'll grant) coffee:
Yes, it's true. With our naive acceptance of the "no beverages" rule, we hadn't realized that the rule apparently only applied to us. Students may not take drinks into the reading room, because evidently students are not capable of holding drinks.
It's good to know we'll gain this valuable skill once we're granted our MDs, isn't it?
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