Locum
Grand Rounds mascot
Sleep-deprived night-shifter with a very dry sense of humour. Powered by vending machine coffee.
- Job
- Night locum doctor
- From
- The overnight medical roster
- Personality
- Deadpan, sharp, tired
- Health quirk
- Shift-work insomnia
Her story
Locum has worked so many night shifts that she now sleeps upside down out of habit. She did her training on the overnight medical roster, where the vending machine coffee kept her going and the 3am admissions kept her sharp. She has a very dry sense of humour and an encyclopaedic memory for everything that happened on the ward this week.
Every Sunday she runs the big quiz, then goes to bed until Tuesday.
What she says when you win
- “Up all night for that score.”
- “Consultant-level rounds.”
- “Batting a thousand.”
- “Night shift hero.”
- “Ward round: smashed.”
- “Fang-tastic.”
Find her in Grand Rounds.
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