Post by Jack Valentine, M.D. on Jan 10, 2007 5:28:27 GMT -5
Information about You
Name: Nino
Contact Information: PM me for MSN
How long have you been roleplaying? More than a couple weeks.
Have you read the rules? See below.
Information about your Character
Doctor, Patient, Nurse or Intern? Doctor (Resident)
Name: Jack Valentine, M.D.
Age: 27
Profession Medical Doctor - Second Year Medical Resident, Internal Medicine
Ethnicity: Caucasian
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Personal Style:
At the hospital, Dr. Jack Valentine wears fitted dress shirts, ties, dress pants and dress shoes along with his doctor’s white lab coat. When on call, he wears blue scrubs and black Nike high-tops. Outside the hospital, Jack dresses appropriately for the occasion. He wears no jewelry save for a gold Rolex Oyster Perpetual DateJust that his parents gave him as a gift when he graduated from medical school.
Physical Appearance:
Dr. Jack Valentine stands two inches over six feet and weighs a sturdy 195 lbs. He has dark brown hair which is usually seen in a tussled spike or in the style of the ‘bedhead’. Jack possesses brown eyes which appear friendly and inviting when he is relaxed, but fierce and intense when involved in competition or focused on an important task. It is also not uncommon to find the young doctor’s eyes to be bloodshot as he is used to long hours at work and little sleep. A solid jaw line underlines a tired, but vibrant Hollywood smile. Despite spending most of his time working in the hospital, his skin tone remains generally tan. Jack works out regularly at one of the city’s many 24-hour fitness centers and plays rugby on a local men’s team to keep in shape.
Scars/Tatoos/ Piercings: None
Best Physical Feature: His charming smile.
Worst Physical Feature: His eyes often seem tired and bloodshot.
Picture:
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Habits:
Talks in his sleep.
Twirls his pen without thinking about it.
Likes:
[+] World travel
[+] Playing rugby
[+] Gambling
[+] Flirting
[+] Thunderstorms
[+] Drinking
[+] Getting high (on occasion - shhh!)
[+] Dogs
Dislikes:
[-] Bible thumpers
[-] Feminist nazis
[-] People with no sense of humor
[-] Guys that act like girls
[-] Nuts on a sundae
[-] Those who steal other people’s ideas and try to pass them off as their own
[-] Cats
Personality:
Self-confident, ambitious and driven, Dr. Jack Valentine always carries himself with a certain ‘Devil-May-Care’ swagger. He is a long range thinker who is also mentally and intellectually quick. Jack’s well developed powers of concentration have helped him become a competent doctor capable of making well-founded decisions. Resourceful and assertive, Second Year Medical Resident, Jack Valentine has an excellent ability to understand different situational problems and use his knowledge and intuition to create solid solutions. Jack is outspoken, but never overbearing. And despite being somewhat jaded, he always maintains a cocky sense of humor as well as a genuine desire to help the sick at a high level. Extremely perceptive of other's feelings, Jack puts his patient’s needs above his own. While possessing outstanding people skills and an open-mind, he can be very judgmental. Despite this, Jack treats everyone with the same and equal respect, whether the person is a hospital bigwig, a janitor, a V.I.P. patient or a homeless heroin addict with no medical insurance.
Though he genuinely cares for his patients, none of them are spared from being submitted to his unique brand of humor when Jack thinks it appropriate. The young doctor doesn’t necessarily believe in the old saying: 'Laughter is the best medicine,' but he does like to make his patients laugh when he can. And happy patients are more likely to take their meds, get better, get discharged from the hospital and scratched off his patient list. Jack works hard and does his job well in addition to studying for his medical boards. At the same time, Jack goes out of his way to have fun and to be Mr. Funny Guy. After all, no one likes a sourpuss. Everyone at the hospital knows him as a jokester. But they also know that when the shit goes down and a crisis arises, Dr. Jack Valentine is rock solid. He has proven time and time again that he is competent and capable of handling any medical urgency or emergency effectively under the current 'standard of care' for medical practice. Based on his clutch performance, Jack has developed an undoubting self-confidence which he carries with him both in and outside the hospital.
As mentioned previously, Jack maintains a cocky sense of humor despite the harsh and rigorous nature of residency. He can be somewhat of a goofball as well. When he's not flirting with the nurses, Jack finds time to contribute to the ever-escalating prank war among the residents. When hospital hi-jinx are afoot, Dr. Jack Valentine is sure to be found nearby. Just because you're overworked and miserable, doesn't mean you can't have any fun. Outside the hospital, he is more laid back dividing his time among such pursuits as sleeping, watching TV, playing rugby for a local men’s rugby club, traveling the world and hanging out with friends. If he wants to, Jack is able to suppress his fatigue in the name of having fun.
Biggest Personality Flaw:
Despite being very perceptive of people’s feelings, Jack still enjoys laughing at the expense of others.
Biggest Personality Strength:
No matter how bad things may appear at times, Jack always seems to be able to smile and bring out the humor in any situation.
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Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Educational Background:
High School: Jesuit College Preparatory School
College: University of Miami
Medical School: Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Previous Places of Employment: Worked as a bartender at Club Space in Miami during his summers in college.
Family:
Father: Theodore Valentine, M.D.
Mother: Marie Blaze-Valentine, M.D.
Brief Medical History: None
History:
Jack Valentine was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and is the son of Theodore and Marie Valentine, both successful doctors. Jack had a normal and unremarkable childhood, staying out of trouble and doing well in school for the most part. Since an early age, he was encouraged by his parents to participate in sports in the hopes he would develop a taste for competition as well as setting goals and working toward those goals. He soon found that he enjoyed sports, especially those involving hard physical contact. Jack went to a Prep school and starred on the football team. Having two good role-models as parents who had the means to send their son to good schools worked in Jack’s favor.
Jack went on to attend the University of Miami where he majored in Biochemistry/Pre-Med and played rugby. It was here that he formed his strongest friendships and developed his social skills. Despite being somewhat of a party animal in college, he never lost sight of his goal of following in his parent’s footsteps and becoming a doctor. Jack was able to maintain a high GPA and was able to get into medical school, thus making himself and his parents proud. Med school was tough, but because of his competitiveness, Jack stayed the course and made the grade. After completing medical school, Jack landed a residency position at Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital in New Jersey
where he currently toils as a Second Year Medical Resident in Internal Medicine.
The first six months of his internship was a living nightmare for Jack. Being on call every fourth night when on the floors and every third night when working in the Intensive Care Unit, constantly being grilled and pimped, having only two separate days off a month and being expected to perform at a continuously high level had taken its toll on the young doctor. The transition from being a medical student to being a doctor responsible for the lives of real people is traditionally a trial by fire. For some, it can be a real kick in the face. Sink or swim. Though Jack and his fellow residents joke about their hectic working conditions, he never complains nor does he ever feel sorry for himself. Truth be told, there's nothing else Jack would rather be doing at this point in his life.
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Pets? None
Married? No
Homeowner? No, rents an apartment.
Average Salary? $39,000 ~ the average salary for a second year medical resident.
Favorite Color Blue
Favorite Band Doesn’t have a favorite band. Listens to everything except country.
Your character frequently says… “Double shot of Rumplemintz and a Budweiser, please.”
Is your character in general satisfied with their life? So far, yes.
Roleplaying Sample:
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Jack awoke to the annoyingly high-pitched staccato beeping of his pager going off. "FUCK!" Jack cursed aloud into the darkness of his on-call room. Jack checked his pager which read: "CODE 99 A3" indicating that one of the patients on A-3 was in cardiac arrest. "Shit." As he rolled out of bed, Jack looked at his watch. 4:20am. "FUUUCK!!" He exclaimed again. Jack had just put his head down not more than fifteen minutes ago. It was the first time his body had been horizontal since he had gotten up yesterday morning at 5:30am. He had spent all day and all night running around the hospital like a monkey on crack with his intern [first year medical resident] doing admissions and putting out various ‘fires’ around the hospital.
Currently, it was July and being assigned to the floor teams in July and August, as opposed to a cushy elective, sucked ass for the second year resident. The new interns, having just started in July fresh out of medical school, were still green and clueless - hence the saying, "Never get sick in July." Jack grabbed his stethoscope which was on the night stand and staggered out the door of his call room and into the harsh fluorescence of the hallway lights. At the same time, Dr. Edward Battle, Jack’s friend and fellow second year resident, stumbled out of the call room next door squinting and sporting some serious bed head. The two residents just looked at each other knowingly then began their mad dash for A-3.
Though half asleep, the two doctors raced through the hospital with reckless abandon, much like two airline passengers late for their flight, running through an airport terminal trying to catch their plane before it left the gate while dodging people and large objects along the way. Upon reaching A-3, Jack entered the patient's room which was already abuzz with activity. The patient was male and looked to be in his late 70's. Dr. Ishimoto, the third year medical resident, was there along with one of the interns and a medical student and had already intubated the patient and was now 'running the code' according to ACLS* Protocol. Nurses were pulling out meds from the crash cart and administering them as per the third year's orders while the intern and medical student took turns doing chest compressions. Jack took up position at the side of the bed.
"Here you go Dr. 'V'," one of the nurses said as she handed Jack a pair of latex gloves.
"Oh, thanks, Gloria," Jack told her as he put them on. Jack could see that the patient already had a central line through which the nurses were pushing emergency medications and i.v. fluids. There wasn't much for Jack to do at the moment but watch the cardiac monitor and keep checking for a femoral pulse over the area just lateral to the patient's groin. His friend, Edward, stood on the opposite side of the bed next to the defibrillator in case the indication for its use arose.
The third year continued running the code, his arms crossed, giving orders in a clear, calm and composed manner. The nurses pushed meds. The respiratory tech gave the patient oxygen via the Ambu-bag through the endotracheal tube which had been placed by the third year earlier. And the intern and medical student continued to take turns doggedly doing chest compressions. Plastic needle caps, used alcohol prep pads, empty medicine vials and other assorted medical litter cluttered the patient’s bed and the floor as nurses, doctors and techs worked feverishly to save the patient. The code continued this way for another thirty minutes. At one point during the code, Jack looked up at the patient’s television which was on. He smiled to himself seeing that the old man had been watching an infomercial for Girls Gone Wild.
"Hey Eddie," Jack said, getting his friends attention.
"What?" Edward asked standing there half asleep.
"How can you tell if a lawyer is well hung?" Jack asked aloud so that all could hear.
Edward shook his head slowly and yawned. "I give up, how?" he patronized in a tired voice.
To which Jack answered, "When you can't fit your finger between the rope and his neck."
Edward and the other doctors chuckled at the punchline as did most of the nurses in the room. Jack was known for telling a joke or two during codes just in case the departing spirit could hear them - a parting gift, so to speak, to take with them as they passed into the afterlife.
With that, the third year resident trained his eyes on the flat line on the cardiac monitor indicating no electrical activity in the patient's heart and announced, "Alright… let's get a rhythm strip and call it… Time of death… 5:05am. Someone call the family and let them know."
Jack took off his latex gloves and tossed them in the trash receptacle. "Sometimes dead is better," Jack thought silently to himself, recalling the words someone once told him when he was a medical student. He solemnly took one last look at the deceased before joining the procession out of the patient's room. A happy smile stretched Jack’s lips as he stepped out into the hallway. The sun was now rising and soon he would be going home.
*ACLS = Advanced Cardiac Life Support
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