Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Free Food

I get free meals at the hospital. Every morning I go through the line and get the same thing: 2 hard-boiled eggs. It is the only gluten-free thing they have that I can see besides the Gatorade and tired, tasteless apples brought out of storage from last winter. And every morning the lady who serves me the eggs says with surprise, "is that all? Are you sure? You're so tiny." Either she is determined to get me to gain the intern 15 before my rotation ends, or she is just baffled by my order after serving orders along the lines of "1 cheese omlette, 2 hashbrowns, 3 sausages, 3 strips of bacon, and a cinnamon bun, to go please." Just because you work at a hospital doesn't mean you eat healthy food.

4 comments:

Bostonian in NY said...

Most hospitals are the WORST place for healthy food. Why do you think a lot of docs/employees are sporting guts and butts? I've been half tempted to order the 1800 cal diabetic lo-fat/lo-cal diet for myself...at least I'd get to eat something almost healthy!

The Lone Coyote said...

I go with a lot of salads... but sometimes the freshness of the veggies, or lack thereof, is a bit concerning.

Bostonian in NY said...

Something about hospital salad bars has always screamed C. diff/VRE/MRSA to me. Families don't know any better than

The Lone Coyote said...

Yeah, I have thought about that and I did once get food poisoning after eating at a hospital salad bar at 2 am on a call night. But, I have to eat something and it is the best of many poor options.