Lateral Thinking
Sep. 12th, 2008 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosen(apologies to those who've heard this one before)
Interview time reminded me of a story my brother told a while back, about a friend of his who was trying to get into a surgical program. It was one of those interviews where every good answer is punished with a harder question until they find something you can't answer.
Interviewer: Here's the scenario: you're a junior doctor, scheduled to assist a surgeon who's going to operate on a patient that morning, and you realise the surgeon is drunk. What do you do?
Interviewee: I tell him he looks tired and ask him if he really feels he should be doing surgery today.
Interviewer: He says he's fine, never better, wants to get started.
Interviewee: Okay, I go to the senior doctor on duty.
Interviewer: He is the senior doctor on duty.
Interviewee: I call the head of surgery.
Interviewer: He is the head of surgery.
Interviewee: I call the head of the hospital...
Interviewer: He is the head of the hospital.
Interviewee: Fine. Then I ask the nurses to feed the patient. We're not allowed to operate on him if he's eaten recently.
Interviewer: *is pwned*
Interview time reminded me of a story my brother told a while back, about a friend of his who was trying to get into a surgical program. It was one of those interviews where every good answer is punished with a harder question until they find something you can't answer.
Interviewer: Here's the scenario: you're a junior doctor, scheduled to assist a surgeon who's going to operate on a patient that morning, and you realise the surgeon is drunk. What do you do?
Interviewee: I tell him he looks tired and ask him if he really feels he should be doing surgery today.
Interviewer: He says he's fine, never better, wants to get started.
Interviewee: Okay, I go to the senior doctor on duty.
Interviewer: He is the senior doctor on duty.
Interviewee: I call the head of surgery.
Interviewer: He is the head of surgery.
Interviewee: I call the head of the hospital...
Interviewer: He is the head of the hospital.
Interviewee: Fine. Then I ask the nurses to feed the patient. We're not allowed to operate on him if he's eaten recently.
Interviewer: *is pwned*
