You know how I know you're not lazy?

The DNB gets pimped at work!

This isn't unusual. Pimping is when a more senior physician sells a less senior doctor's body on the streets tries to make a younger doctor look stupid in front of a group intensely questions a younger medical professional about a topic.

On this particular day, the DNB was being pimped on why he didn't take a specific course of action with a patient. The truth was, he considered the options and risks, and decided to do something different. The pimping physician, however, doesn't know him, didn't believe him, and ended the conversation by noting that the DNB was "just being lazy."

OH NO YOU DIDN'T.

I'll grant you this: the DNB can be lazy. I've got 5 months worth of opened mail he needs to sort through to prove it. But at work? The man is at the hospital nearly 80 hours a week. I don't think so.

"How did you respond?" I ask him, incredulous.

"How was I supposed to respond? It was in a group. I didn't want to be disrespectful," he replies.

I get it, but I'm not happy about it.

So instead, we've compiled a list of How A Medical Professional Might Know He's Not Lazy:

If you've had to pee for the last 5 hours, and you're not on a family car trip... You're Not Lazy

If you've skipped 4 meals in 2 days because of work...

If employees return to the hospital the next morning the morning and say, "Oh, you're still here?"...

When it would be frowned upon to take a 20 minute nap during a 30 hour call shift...

When patients' families ask, "When do you get to go home?" and the answer is greater than 24 hours...

If you've rounded 5 times during your call shift...

If while you're eating dinner, you answer 15 phone calls and none of them are for your teenage daughter...