Let's Play Jeopardy!

We play two types of Jeopardy at Wilford Hall. One fairly entertaining and always educational. The other, well it kills a little bit of me every turn of the game.

The first version involves Morning Report. We break up into teams and do Jeopardy in the regular TV fashion complete with little hand buzzers. It's pretty great. 'Nuff said.

The second version involves the few pleasant rotations we have each year. In order to complicate them and instill a pervasive sense of fear we are periodically put on "jeopardy." For a number of days were are required to carry our pagers with us wherever we go in the rare case that someone cannot come in for work and a substitute must take his or her place. For some it is an uneventful moment in time that passes before it is even realized to have begun. For others the rare moments seem to rarely be rare. And for some, namely the married men amongst us, it is a chance to strike it rich at the Impregnate Your Wife Lotto. With enough planning, and enough of some other things as well, a beautiful new baby child can be brought into the world right in the middle of one's ward month or ICU block ensuring a garunteed week of paternity leave to, you know, assist the wife with child care and stuff. It is the scourge of childbirth that has created such a terrible taste in my mouth for jeopardy, and I blame paternity leave for all of it.

At this point I would go on about how when we cannot come in due to illness we either still come in or come in once the rigors have stopped while paternity leavers seem to always return 7 days later fully rested, I may then segue into how I rose from bed one morning vomiting and yet still reported for duty, and I could then follow that with even more raving about how every jeopardy I have been on this year, save the one I covered for a friend, has resulted in me being jeopardized, but I will instead end my rant here. Let me just say that Jeopardy sucks, I hate it, and come on people! Enough with the baby making already!

(or let me in on some of the baby making action.)