There were five nurses in Head Nurse Willows ward. All very sweet and caring women. Mary is the oldest at 55, she is the wisest of the bunch. She had been married thirty two years and had three sons in their twenties. She is past menopause and sleeping and taking care of herself again and finding sex with her husband more enjoyable again.

Enid is skinny and appears a little gothish. She is the most secretive of all women estimated to be in her mid to late 20s. She has a Count Chocula tattoo on her left butt cheek she got as a result of one of her webcam favorites begging her to get it for 12,000 dollars...she felt guilty and donated half to charity.

Lily is the ditzy one. Blondish, almost white hair, 32 years old with a live in boyfriend who is unemployed. Somewhat of a wild child she overcompensates by hanging close to Mary and is always asking advice on how to appear conservative at her job.

Katie is a hopelessly single brown-haired freckled face chubby woman who recently turned 28 and was getting baby rabies in the worst way. She started a nudist resort meant to attract like-minded men, but instead only women joined.

And yes, there is also Angela, everyone's favorite red haired angel.

Katie, Mary, Enid and Lily were all but done with the rectal thermometer, they found the procedure traumatic for their patients and only used them in an emergency situation directly approved by Dr. Wells. Angela and Annie were the two hold holdouts. If Annie retired Angela would follow the lead of the other nurses. However, despite Angela's philosophical difference with her four colleagues, they all respected her immensely. Ever since she arrived at Mercy Hospital Annie channeled all her energy in instructing Angela making the environment quite peaceful and tolerable.

There were new problems that arose as a result of Angela's soldier-like obedience, but nothing the ladies couldn't handle. Two weeks earlier a man around forty assumed to be a hypochondriac, approached Mary telling her he had stomach issues and wanted to know if she was going to order a rectal temperature like Annie ordered and Angela provided. The dirty blond nurse waved a loose lock of hair away from her glasses and it explained it was not necessary. The man became a little more agitated and insisted that the head nurse insisted and he needed it so he must continue to have it taken the same way.

Mary scoffed and made a rare request of her head nurse to "take care of her patient". When Annie arrived the man appeared somewhat disappointed at the cold stoic nurse clearly hoping Angela was the one who attended to him instead. Nevertheless the man turned over on his stomach and pulled down his jeans and underwear not waiting for the curtain to be closed around him.

Annie crossed her arms leaving the curtains wide open as patients and nurses got a gander at the man's full moon. "Sir, can I ask why you have your pants down? Is there any injury or problem you want to tell me about?"

The man turned his head around over his shoulder and looked past his naked rear end at the irritable nurse. "Ma'am, my stomach is hurting again. Last time I came you ordered a rectal temperature and an enema, I was hoping you could order the same thing again, last time I felt so wonderful aterward!"

Arms still crossed, Annie looked back at the man's face and bare buttocks, "Well, I am delighted to hear that, Sir. Last time I needed to rule out a fever as the reason for your discomfort. Now, that I know the enema helped so much I can have the doctor write you a prescription for one." The man continued to wiggle his butt anxiously explaining he was a little nervous about doing an insertion himself and would prefer the red-haired nurse who helped last time assist him.

Annie, completely ignored the man scribbled on her pad and turned in the opposite direction, "I find even the most helpless men, gain incredible abilities to help themselves when given the chance to relieve their own pain."

Back to the present...Chief of staff Wells calls all the nurses to his office as all of them cross their legs nervously. Mike Wells looks at all his nurses warmly, "Relax, I am here to discuss solutions to repeated hospital complaints about all the nurses, but I know you all aren't our problem." Enid interjects and begins to speak rapidly and lists off all the reasons why the complaints are bogus and lays the blame on the neverending drama started by head nurse Annie."

Mike smiles warmly and keeps nodding, "No, no these aren't her complaints. These are patient complaints about various nurses being unhelpful and refusing to offer medical care."

Angela blushes as Lily drops the name of five of her own suspects from an ivy league praternity who frequent the ER demanding a hernia check from her. Mary mentions a number of Mama's boys with terrible hygiene always stinking up her cubicle. Katie sighs in frustration, "Enid is right the whole problem is with Annie, she has created a bunch of fetishized zombie men who refuse to see us as human beings and want us to be glorified mommies who wipe their bottoms." The rest of the nurses in the room break out in applause and cheers.

Mike hangs his head in shame, "Ladies, I can assure, not all men are like that.." The nurses in the room respond in unison how they would never include him as one of those males. "Anywho, now to the solution part which should help to a limited degree, so to speak. Are you all aware of my friend Cal Luken from University of Miami?" Katie rubs her knees and wets her lips as she nods. "He has invented a microscopic, nearly painless disolvable pin that can be shot in the abdomen. Rectal thermometery will cease to exist in this hospital in the near future." Again the ladies clap and cheer in unison loving what needed relief this will give them in the future.

Mary temporarily becomes depressed and offers skepticism, "Mike, I have worked at this hospital for over twenty years. For what ever reason, Annie has convinced herself the rectal thermometer is the holy grail of medical diagnostics. She will never ever accept this change in policy...ever!"

Mike nods understandingly, "You are so right, Mary, that is why this next part is crucial. I need all of your help in this. Tomorrow, we have a patient Leo Rivers." Angela blushes deep red and Katie begins licking her lips more aggressively. Anywho, he has agreed to be our guinea pig. I have already informed Annie. He will be undergoing a routine corrective operation on his foot. As a precaution you will all be overseeing his aftercare. Cal will inject out patient with the abdominal pin before surgery and it should reflect temperature accuracy identical if not better than rectally in nearly every case. What I need you ladies to do is..."

Katie interjects as all the other ladies look toward Angela blushing profusely, "We will all do it!...I mean for the sake of not having to...do it again...right?"

Mike nods, "Welp, thanks for the vote of confidence, Katie, can I count on all the rest of you ladies as well?"

Angela still looking flushed asks if she could sit this one out and take a few personal days off. Mike kindly agrees and asks if she is coming down with something and needs to be looked over. Angela assures him she is fine and the meeting is adjourned.