OPERATING ROOM DELAY CODES

Lab on strike
H & P too legible
EKG shorted out
Patient lost
Room spinning around
Surgeon out of control
Anesthesia on ego trip
Purple haze
Orderly crushed by guerney
Everyone confused by reality
X-ray Personnel glowing Excessively
Nurses refuse to leave lounge
Short lunch break
Long lunch break
Patient at McDonald's
Surgeons meeting with the IRS
Unable to awaken anesthesia

Surgeon asleep in nearby city
Patient getting pregnant
Salesman arriving with donuts
Medical convention in town
Housekeeping attending cockfight
Patient consulting with bookie
Surgeon sweating like a pig
Scrub tech having convulsions
Free lunch upstairs
Urologist drowned under cysto table
Patient's dog ate Kaiser card
Resident gone insane
Orthoedists singing in barbershop
Earthquake, Flood, Fire, & Plague
Pathology specimens served in cafeteria
Staff hypnotised by talking machines
Idiots blithering and blathering
Alternate universe seen thru laparoscope
Anesthesiologist swallowed beeper
Everyone called in sick