This is from a 3rd year resident's (in internal medicine) blog that I follow. Its not really that funny, but its more of a "face palm" type of thing. There are other funny ones. If you like them, I can paste the good ones periodically, or just give you the link to the blog. Anyway:
Me, to a nurse, 3AM: "Hi, I just need you to put a Foley catheter into Patient Smith, when you get a chance."
Nurse: "I'm sorry, I just started working here."
Me: "Okay.... I'm [name]. Nice to meet you."
Nurse: "No, I meant I don't feel comfortable putting in a Foley. Sorry."
Me: "I don't feel comfortable putting in a Foley either, on zero hours of sleep, and having put in, uh, two Foleys myself in the past three years, since nurses are supposed to be able to do it. And I have six other patients to see. Is there another nurse you can ask?"
Nurse: "I don't feel comfortable asking anyone else, since I just started working here."
Me: "Okay, well, I need someone to do this. And you should learn how to do it, since you're going to have to do it."
Nurse: "I'm not sure what I'm supposed to know how to do. I just started working here."
Me: "Please stop saying that!"
Nurse: "Can't you call the GI fellow?"
Me: "You mean the GU fellow?"
Nurse: "I don't know. Where does a catheter go?"
Me: "Oh, wow. No, I don't feel comfortable calling the GU fellow at home at 3AM about a Foley catheter. Is there another nurse on with you?"
Nurse: "She told me not to bother her."
Me: "Okay, how about you bother her, and one of you puts in the Foley catheter, okay?"
Nurse: "I don't think I can do that. I just started working here."
Me: "Okay, I'm going to call my intern and the two of us are going to put in the Foley catheter, and then I'm going to tell your supervisor that you need to be trained on how to put in Foley catheters, and then I'm going to try and get some sleep and forget this conversation."
Nurse: "That sounds good, except for the part about talking to my supervisor. Do you have to? Since I just started working here and everything."
Me: "Please go somewhere else."
Nurse: "I'm supposed to stay at the nurse's station."
Me: "Can you at least get me a Foley catheter so I can put it in Patient Smith?"
Nurse: "I don't know where anything is. I just started working here."