We had a brief orientation of the Pediatric floor today. I am looking forward to this rotation, but I know sick kids are going to make me sad. We stopped by a patient's room today, and saw a 4-year old girl in sickle cell crisis. Our instructor was talking to her, and asked what was on her arm. She said, "That's my PICC line." No kid should know what a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter is.

They do not perform any painful procedures in the patient's rooms, so they take them to the aptly named Procedure Room where they are presumably distracted by the cartoon characters. Or they learn to hate Donald Duck and Winnie the Pooh.