My ex was a scrub tech for years, loved it until she hit the top of the pay scale and so went to nursing school. Training put her in a 6-month 3rd shift stint at the downtown OR, the local “gun and knife club”, loved it. When she got her RN, she went straight back in the OR.

She used to always laugh, “I don’t have to talk to those fuckers! They’re knocked out when I get to them!”