If you've never done it, you will soon. As demonstrated here by a very brave Canadian OT student, this was by far the most ridiculous experience thus far in medical school (BLS takes 2nd place). So today we were required to get fitted for a N95 respirator... some red tape, non-liability, bureaucratic BS so they can never say we weren't properly instructed on mask use should we come down with some nasty strain of TB.
Here's the bad part. I could NOT stop laughing. The instructors seemed so serious, and kept walking around spraying the inside of our hood with increasing concentrations of saccharine. Then they'd say "Can you taste or smell that?" Which of course I could... but I didn't want to be there for six hours... so I said no. And so did everyone else. The worst part? At one point they made us recite this diatribe about rainbows... and I could barely squeak out 2 lines without cracking up laughing. The instructors were not amused to say the least.
I work in a hospital, and when I started working I had a pretty full beard, so they fitted me for one of those. I felt like they were going to send me to the moon or something.
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