Residents to rebuild following devastation

Housestaff members of the MICU team at University Hospital are slowly beginning to rebuild in the wake of attending physician, Marshall. Pulmonary and critical care specialist, Hugo Marshall, who reached an unprecedented level five on the malignancy scale, caused general devastation to University Hospital MICU service leaving behind broken dreams, flooded hopes and dashed egos. As no such attending had struck University Hospital since 1977, the residents and medical students in his path found their emotional infrastructure was not sound enough to withstand the torrents of sarcasm and belittlement that characterized Dr. Marshall's two weeks on service.
"It was horrible," recall internal medicine intern Amelia Cruz and family practice resident Michael Silverberg. "We lost everything - our confidence, our desire to learn, even our will to live. It's going to take months to rebuild our sense of worth and to start functioning effectively as doctors again."
Attending physician Marshall could not be reached for comment, but forecasters predict he will continue to move eastward across the hospital where he will strike the pulmonary clinic sometime early next week. Many housestaff in the area have no means of evacuation and have been sighted employing strategies such as barricading the call room doors and laying stronger emotional foundations.