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Debi G from Oz~
Holy Crap!
That sounds like it could be a beginning to an episode of C.S. I. and then the scene cuts away to the C.S.I. team finding the said apprentice dead in the same fridge hours later.

What a way to break an apprentice in.
Much milder than the cook asking the new guy to get him a bucket of steam A.S.A.P.!

Meh, I work in an ICU.
The fact that nearly all posters "freak out" at iron lung pictures as well as morgue fridges, autopsy tables etc and are obsessed by the subject of ECT and mouth gags, gives you an idea why most lay people s**t themselves when they visit very sick relatives in hospitals.

Things that we see every day ( for years ) and are quite ho hum to us - like ventilators, heart by pass stuff and richmond bolts (yes folks, a metal bolt for measuring pressures inside the brain)sticking out of six year olds' skulls etc are downright freaky s**t to the general community. Luckily, it's not freaky to health professionals, it's just a job - caring for the sick until they are well enough to go home.

P.S. A Richmond bolt can save your life when you have an open head injury after being hit by a suburban train. And you can walk out of the unit as if nothing hasppened to you.

I don't know how anyone can read STERILE WATER, then say it is normal saline (chem class!)
The thing sticking out is a valve that lets air into the jar as the fluid is being administered. Some chemical/medicine would have been added to the bottle, then a tubing set inserted for administration. Because it is glasss, you cannot get anything out of it unless air goes in. It even says on the bottle "vacuum". It may be science, but it's not ROCKET science. LOL.

Wouldn't the hose be just a simple water hose? As some of the organs coming out of the body cavity would be covered in a bit of gunky fluid, the mortician would have to wash it a bit before he hands the organ to the pathologist to slice up. (yes, I've seen autopsies). Interestingly, if you walked into any major hospital, at least in Aus, the tables would look exactly the same today. The holes on the tables are laminar air flow holes so any live germs on the bodies are extracted down away from the mortician's faces.

Speaking of beer and morgues in the one sentence, I used to work in a university connected to a teaching hospital. The maintenance guys from one of the buildings used to keep their beer cold in one designated morgue fridge. When they got a new apprentice, their first job was to go and get the beer after their first evening shift. At 10.30pm, they'd enter the empty building with a torch and go down to the morgue alone. They would nervously open the said fridge with shaking hands. All of a sudden, one of the other maintenance guys who would be lying inside the fridge with a sheet over himself would sit bolt upright in the dark and frighten the s**t outof the apprentice!! Some poor blokes would resign the next day as they couldn't trust that something like this would not happen again. This was 20 yrs ago. Prob couldn't get away with it nowadays.

Given the hasty/botched stencil paint job, maybe the mosquito symbol meant this room was an isolation room or contaminated in some way. It was marked as a warning?? like the biohazard symbols we use today.

Once a year, huh gals. "Scoot all the way to the end of he table, honey"

THERE IS EVEN A PILE OF ZAPPED HUMAN UNDER IT. YIKES!

It seems to me that a lot of people are all 'I could never be in one, trapped forever, locked inside' and some such. Frankly, I'd rather breathe with the use of an iron lung than not at all.

Good thing TB isn't the problem it used to be....can you imagine being sick with it and being shut away in a place like this?

Makes me want to dance...which is a weird thing to say, but true. All that open space...

I love how most of the...paint...?on the wall has stayed intact. It's a pretty color.

Your friends are very brave, Mr. Motts. I know I could never do that...

I just love how that table is in plain view of the window and other building. I'm sure the people on the top floor of the adjacent building must have loved the view so to speak. lol :P :)

That little dip in the table looks to be in about the right spot to hold the intestines as they were being pulled out. <<BLEGH>> :P