This one time a colleague and I were doing a fluoroscopy guided lumbar puncture for Cerebral Spinal Fluid sample. The patient had c-diff so we were in full contact precaution gear. She opened at low pressure, so her CSF trickled out at a painfully slow pace. The radiologist turned to my colleague and said " put on sterile gloves and fill the rest of these vials, then come get me when they're filled and I'll take the spinal needle out."

Full contact precaution includes wearing a plastic, full body disposable gown, face mask, hair net, gloves, booties. You get hot and sweat almost immediately after putting on the gown. My colleague is hunched over beside this patient with a plastic vial, collecting the fluid. Both of us are sweating profusely, not speaking a word. Then he turns to me and goes," sure is hot inside these rhinos."

I couldn't hold back my laugher.