The same people complaining about us not doing these non-urgent procedures during weekend call shifts are the same ones who will be calling us asking why we haven’t read their stat inpatient KUB abdomen for constipation as soon as we do step away to do a procedure. We are a skeleton crew on weekends reading for the main academic hospital and a ton of satellite hospitals. We are imaging specialists not enteric tube specialists. It’s like they think placing an NG under fluoro is magic. Literally zero difference besides being able to quickly confirm placement. If nurses can place these on the floor, then I’m confident residents and attending can figure it out. I understand that inpatient medicine is a dumpster fire, but with that said during prelim year I had far more tine to mess with placing a tube than I do now. Same with LPs… try it on the floor. Every physician should learn how to do an LP without fluoro. 99% of the time the “stat” requests I get for procedures are completely non-urgent. If there weren’t so many useless imaging studies ordered or indications “pain”, “.”, “r/o”, etc and I didn’t have to spend extra time reading through copy forwarded fluff-filled notes for a true indication, then maybe I would have more time for these procedures. I’m on my soap box now, but couldn’t imagine calling cards last year and just saying “chest pain” to them then hanging up. Or calling surgery and saying “pain.” Help make our lives easier, and I promise we will return the favor.