Why is it so?

[onetrack]

Leaving medications lying around near patients in hospitals is probably a good way to have people thieving them. Theft in hospitals is a huge problem, and sizeable numbers of people will steal any pills they can get their hands on.

As far as checking your ID wristband, they must have had it hammered into them to keep the checks up, people go walkabout in hospitals, all kinds of things happen. They just simply can't afford to have a mix-up.

 

A friend told me recently they knew someone who went into hospital to have some surgery done on a leg. They must have heard about the stuff-ups when docs and nurses mixed up right or left legs - because this person had written on their good leg, in black texta - "NOT THIS ONE!"  

 

Edited September 30, 2021 by onetrack

[Jerry_Atrick]

When my daughter had to have her broken arm operated on, they drew in black text arrows pointing to the area and a big X's on the other arm...

 

 

[nomadpete]

I can picture the surgeon standing beside the patient, scalpel raised, scratching his head....

"Did you mean MY right side, or HIS right side?"

[facthunter]

The hospital has to fill up your medications from previously unopened packets to a list they have of your requirements. About 1/4 of the time my wife finds they get this wrong.. If I'm getting an operation on anything I have more than ONE of, I use a texta. Nev

[Marty_d]

On 01/10/2021 at 12:13 PM, facthunter said:

If I'm getting an operation on anything I have more than ONE of, I use a texta. Nev

Depending on what's being operated on, you might want to be careful with the mirror and the texta.

[facthunter]

It's only for writing last minute instructions. They put me to sleep so I miss out on all the jokes. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Is that last minit or mine-newt instructions.. depends on what part of the body it is being applied, I guess... *cough*

[old man emu]

How is it that some machine can secure one of these boxes  without damaging that locking tab, but if a human tries to open the box, the tab gets torn?

[Dax]

Have always wondered about that, always frustrating when you get a package and getting in to it becomes a battle with the box. I just cut them open now then clean up the mess.

[onetrack]

I slide a knife under the tab and pop it out. You can't open it with your fingers without damaging it, and I think that's part and parcel of the design.

[facthunter]

Part & parcel He he. Nev

[old man emu]

Remember when you were a kid and your Mum told you that if you were good while she was making cakes, you could lick the bowl? Nowadays, packet cake mixes come with a warning not to eat the uncooked batter as it contains raw egg. How did we ever survive? And what does this warning mean for the Yuletide Eggnog? 

[Marty_d]

58 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Remember when you were a kid and your Mum told you that if you were good while she was making cakes, you could lick the bowl? Nowadays, packet cake mixes come with a warning not to eat the uncooked batter as it contains raw egg. How did we ever survive? And what does this warning mean for the Yuletide Eggnog? 

They only put that there because they don't know if the dish licker is pregnant or not.  Whereas your mum probably knew for sure that you weren't up the duff.

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, Marty_d said:

They only put that there because they don't know if the dish licker is pregnant or not.

Ah!

[Marty_d]

Ah, the peak of robotics.  Garbage can on castors with a plunger for a hand and a limited vocabulary.  Escape them by... going up or down one step.

[Old Koreelah]

22 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Ah, the peak of robotics.  Garbage can on castors with a plunger for a hand and a limited vocabulary.  Escape them by... going up or down one step.

All true Marty, but they’ve outlasted every other bad-guy robot.

[old man emu]

Robbie the Robot from the movie Forbidden Planet

 

predates the Daleks by seven years, although there was an earlier robot bearing that name in Asimov's 1940 story about a first-generation robot designed to care for children.

 

Robbie the Robot has enjoyed a continuous career in films and TV since 1956 up to The Big Bang Theory in 2014.

[Marty_d]

If the designers of either the Daleks or Robbie could have looked in the future and seen the movement of the robots from Boston Dynamics, they would have hung up their T-square. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

And Robbie the Robot is pre-dated by the Lost In Space Robot of the early - mid 60's, and there is an uncanny resemblance:

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

On 26/10/2021 at 1:39 PM, Marty_d said:

Ah, the peak of robotics.  Garbage can on castors with a plunger for a hand and a limited vocabulary.  Escape them by... going up or down one step.

Except for the escape, a remarkable similarity to our pollies!

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

And Robbie the Robot is pre-dated by the Lost In Space Robot of the early - mid 60's, and there is an uncanny resemblance:

 

 

Sorry, Jerry, but Robbie first appeared in the movie Forbidden Planet in 1956. The L in S robot mostly only addressed as "Robot". Once or twice his model class designation, B-9, was used. It was a B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot. In one episode, Robbie and B-9 battle it out.

 

[old man emu]

[facthunter]

Plenty  of GOOD Australian wine about, otherwise spot on.  Some exports Cotton and almonds displace water for local necessary foods. Many brands we regard as Australian are not. We get to keep the damage done by mining Coal. Nev

[old man emu]

Usually at this time of year the HWP sets up lots of "Meet 'n' Greet" locations so they can celebrate with everyone the support they have received during the year. You even get to help them celebrate by blowing up their party balloons. Strangely, these "Meet 'n' Greet" opportunities have been missing from our roadsides this year.

[willedoo]

Dr. Roly Sussex on his ABC radio gig today was commenting on the estimated data on the internet. He said if it was put on DVD and they were stacked on top of each other, the stack would circle the Earth 220 times.