you can have ice chips

It always seems so strange that patients are so grateful when we let them eat ice chips, pee without a catheter walk with the freedom of no iv's. On my psych rotation we handed out smoke passes to patients who were well behaved.

If patients make enough urine, out goes the foley.

There is such a huge amount of power given to the docs over their patients' smallest and most basic bodily function. Things everyone takes for granted.