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HTuttle: for gawds sake , yeah! This stuff doesn't bother me, though. I have a friend in the biz...and if you don't go.... ; ) ...all the world will know....
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The use of the fluoroscope was discontinued because of the high amount of radiation that it puts on the patient.
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actually, really confused patients will still climb over the side rails of the beds. Hence the job of the sitters was born.
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It looks like a late seventies / early eighties bike. From the time period when the style of childrens bikes made the shift from street cruiser style to a more BMX style. The handle bars look BMX but the seat is closer to a banana seat. I had a bike that was similar to this bike in 1979 called the Huffy "road thunder". It was sweet!
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did you have a moment to find out what those books were? were they text books, or peices of fiction?
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Good spot to see how those vertigo therapy sessions are working out.
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They still look like that. What do you mean?
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Don't you folks go to the dentist?
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Looks fairly modern.
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Those buttons were obviously used to slyly divert the patient's attention while she went about her dastardly deeds.

(Just hopping on the over-imagination bandwagon)
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I suppose cribs could have been used for certain folks who just tended to roll around a lot and fall out of normal beds. Modern hospital beds do have low side bars.
If they were strapped in, they wouldn't really need the bars, and the bars don't seem like they would have stopped someone not strapped in from hopping out.
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They likely used to go through quite a few toilets from being repeatedly jumped on until they started with the concrete. The sink is probably high enough to deter most jumping.
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... yessum, that would be Sir Laurence I was referring to...thank god I checked back so I could clear up this mass confusion ; )
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Thank you for the information. I had no idea children could be placed so young....
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Vic Tanny Machine we called them, as he always had those in his tv commercials. He was the Jack LaLanne of the era.