Work/Life Balance
Judge Advises Colonoscopy-Averse Lawyers to ‘Get Over It’
Posted May 13, 2008, 08:20 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A judge says he dreaded his first colonoscopy with the same kind of trepidation reserved for requests for a tax audit and scary parts of the movie Alien.
“I’m not talking here about your basic, ordinary garden-variety bar exam dread,” writes Judge William Bedsworth of the California Court of Appeal in a humor column published in the Recorder (sub. req.). “I’m talking about full-on, under the theater seat with your eyes closed, screaming at Sigourney Weaver not to open that airlock because the scariest monster in the history of the universe is on the other side.”
Bedsworth didn’t relish the prep procedure, which required him to sleep on the bathroom floor after taking pills and… Continue reading...
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