When you are admitted to hospital, they place on your wrist a white wristband with your name on it. But there are other coloured wristbands which symbolise other things. The red wristbands are placed on dead people.
There was one surgeon who worked on a night shift in a school hospital. He had just finished an operation and was on his way down to the basement. He entered the elevator and there was only one other person there. He casually chatted with the woman while the elevator descended. When the elevator door opened, another woman was about to enter when the doctor slammed the close button and punched the button to the highest floor. Surprised, the woman reprimanded the docotor for being rude and asked why he did not let the other woman in. The doctor said 'that was the woman I just operated on. She died while I was doing the operation'. 'Didnt you see the red wristband she was wearing?'. The woman smiled and raised her arm 'something like this?'.
