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I confess, I am petty enough to be pleased at the thought of the potplant and the other coping with the last work day before xmess without me fielding the phones, and doing more referrals than both of them combined, and two-thirds of the clinicians across all services on leave, and the traditional last-minute ward-dump of the three primary hospitals in our area, and two private hospitals, and 3 rehab hospitals... and entitled eastern suburbs princesses realising that having Nana to stay means helping her have a shower and surely there's a nurse that can come and do that (and why should I have to pay a private nurse? I pay my taxes and I was told that you have nurses so send one, don't tell me no, you're a public servant right? not doing a very good job are you?), and the woman whose man came home drunk and beat the shit out of them AGAIN (crying, at a friends house now but can't stay and nowhere else to go but home but so scared and he'll kill me if I call the cops), or the homeless woman who's been on an ice binge and has run out of money and places to stay and so now is a good time to go in rehab (screaming abuse), or the backpackers who just arrived from thailand and have this weird rash thing on their feet wots really itchy innit and a geezer at the hostel told them about the foot clinic so can they see someone, or the 8 or 9 "housebound" clients ringing up to complain that thier nurse hasn't arrived yet and they have to go shopping/to the hairdresser/to bridge club christmas lunch, or the guy who thinks he's a prophet and Jesus wants him to cleanse all the santa bullshit because santa is really just satan (12 minutes of insane rambling on this theme and threats of harm if I transfer him), or the GPs who are going on holidays and expect the community nurses to monitor just two or three of their elderly patients for the next month or so (the guilt trip one was the most fun "well I hope my 92yo blind diabetic lady doesn't misdose and go into a coma without someon monitoring her BSL's")... y'know, just as a random sampling of calls I dealt with today alone.

Good luck colleagues, have fun with it. And Merry Christmas.