Tools of the trade

Where do I store my tools? Well, I keep my pens and sheets of paper in my pockets - if I don't have pockets, I wear my labcoat. This hangs around my neck, or sometimes sits in a the right labcoat pocket. Our hospital is well wired; lab results, transcription, and diagnostic imaging are all a key stroke away. I haven't bothered to get access from home, but it's not uncommon to do so. But the tools I use most I have with me at all times: For listening to stories and bodies For looking at Xrays and faces For examining and for comforting Asking, instructing, explaining, ordering, dictating...this week's bout of laryngitis has really brought home how much of my job involves talking And most days, I try not to leave home with this: No silly, not a hairstyle that will stay out of my face. My brain.