576 Comments for Haverford State Hospital

Apparently 'Bucky' is a common(ish) term in the x-ray field, named after Dr Peter Bucky. Bucky tables are often referred to as part of x-ray equipment so my guess is Bucky 1 and Bucky 2 were tables that patients used to lay on to get x-rayed. You learn something new everyday...

listen if you dont all stop it ill put you in the giant human autoclave torture device from hell, maybe......

look at 4 white buttons, do 2 of them say bucky1 bucky2, what is bucky.......

crawley hospital in england the morgue is next to the kitchens...

somethings are best left where they belong....

As always, I have to agree with Lynne. The "daily board" helps both the staff and the patient.

As a former patient, the "daily board" has helped me try to gain more awareness of my surroundings. When reality and mood are uncontrolled... the simple things can help you try to hang on.

It's kind of like in a classroom when you are assessing a student's abilities. You start out with the "lesson" verbally and gauge how everyone is doing. Are people watching you, can they follow what you are saying, can they tell what day it is, can they tell what year it is, are they reading the board versus listening to you read it, are they even paying attention, if you say that it is snowing out and ask what kind of clothes you should wear, do they know to wear cold vs. warm weather clothes, etc. You learn a ton of info by asking simple questions and gauging peoples' reactions, depth of knowledge, ability to string a sentence together, stay on topic, listen to the rhythm and "prosody" of their voice, see how close they sit to others, how much eye contact they are able to make and for how long, whether they have any possible movement disorders from their medications - as I said, you check out how they are reacting and interacting, how they are processing, and how they are learning from the situation.

It's a great way to learn about people without staring at them or making them take a test. :-)

yet if you write it up on a board, assuming the patient could read are you asking these questions without the said patient seeing the board, if not how can you judge this abillty to have a concept of reality if the answer to your question is clearly written in front of them.and if the board isnt in view of the patients then i find that even more strange. dean.waddington@hotmail.co.uk

Surely, Shirley. ;-)

lynne you keep educating me, and for this i say thank you..

When you are trying to reorient people who have reality/perceptual issues, a good place to start is with concrete things, like what day is it, what's the weather like, etc. You can both check to see whether the person is oriented to date and time (a quick mini mental status exam) and assist the folks who don't currently have this concept.

mmmm. did they go on holidays?


I would imagine quite a few of them went out for fun and adventure. These places weren't prison y'know. If some one was willing to take a patient out, or a group they could go.

be carefull my friend, i imagine you dont hang around tooooo long..

mmmm. did they go on holidays?

Maybe some fan of gore sites? I've checked a few of those out and was VERY sorry I did.