Monday, September 18, 2017

Fire And Prosecute Jackbooted Thugs XVIII




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

When my Dad worked in a hospital (he was in engineering, didn't have anything directly to do with patient care) he swore the nurses had needles with propellers on them for problem patients.

Mark D

Aesop said...

No, but we do have two other things:
blunt unsharpened "draw" needles, for mixing meds in the vials, and only intended to punch through rubber bottle stoppers. If someone was in a hurry, and "careless"...
Also, the regular needles come in different sizes, gauged according to how much they hurt.
There's no requirement I use the skinny little 23g; if, for instance, I wanted to use an 18g or 16g horse-needle instead, well...

I feel some more memes coming on.

loren said...

Had a doc use a horse needle to aspirate a busted knee once. Felt better............after.

The first project my dad developed for Abbot Labs was a machine to make needles sharper than previous ones. He was always proud of that.