Panties in a bunch....kind of

Today during rounds, I was presenting one of my more complicated patients.  Well, they're all complicated.  Especially when you've been up since 4:00am, your baby didn't feel like going to sleep the night before and your brain needs an oil change.  Did that make any sense?  See what I mean?  Even this blog is complicated.

I digress.  So, I was presenting my patient, and all of a sudden, when I was going through the pertinent lab values from today, my resident and my attending just started laughing.  They acted like they were trying not to, but they both were finding something really entertaining.  I shot a quick glance to my right and then my left, but there was nothing I saw that was funny.  "Oh crap," I thought.  I could feel my face getting red and warm.  "They're laughing at me."  I'm turning into the med student that rattles off random lab values, comments on the color of the patient's gown, reports the music that was playing in their room, says "um" every other word.....  But I hadn't. Did I have a booger?  Were my boobs leaking?  Ugh!  Why are they laughing at me? 

I'm usually not a very sensitive person, but I was a little upset during the remainder of our time rounding.  My paranoia festered so much into the afternoon that I finally broke down and asked my resident what they were laughing at.  I played it all cool though, like I really didn't care. 

Apparently while I was in the middle of my accurate, concise and well thought out presentation, one of the ICU nurses went to change out some bags on the ventilator in my patient's room.  When she bent down, her pants were sitting really low and her shirt came up a little bit and... heavens to Betsy!  Her thong was showing!  Actually the resident said...."and we saw her THONG!"  I don't know what part of my naive little brain thought that an ICU doctor might be a sliver more mature than the average joe, but alas!  I was wrong.