there's this white board in every theater that had to be stated the vital main details of op and the team members involved. If not mistaken, it was being known as the white board of SSSL (Safe Surgery Saves Lives), mainly saving the patients by avoiding cutting the wrong patients and saving the surgeon's livelihood, too.
I didn't know what was going through the mind of my house officer as she wrote there in the board...
And the anaesthetist-in-charge with rather similar name stood there, eyes fixed on that part of the board, stunned for 20 seconds minimum. Behind the face mask, I couldn't tell whether she was smiling, dropping her jaw or just smirking.
But I had to turn around and held my bursting laughter, suppressing them into simple heavy breathing.
I asked the house officer. "Hey, do you know who is Lina Teoh?"
"I think so. Miss Malaysia, right?"
"Oh, not her ah? OK, I go re-write it."
Laughing behind my mask, "There is no one in this whole hospital named Lina Teoh."
"Hey, don't laugh lar. Anyway, she's prettier than Lina Teoh?"
"Yeah, good way to cover your silliness."
That really made my day. Really.