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Recent Chicken Scratchings
Unfortunately the camera phone makes it hard to view exactly what this is a picture of, but it’s a container for sharps disposal. Now that wouldn’t be so unusual if it were located in a doctor’s office and not, say, the bathroom at a riverboat casino. But let me assure you that it is in fact the latter. What goes on at this casino that they need to have a permanent system for the safe disposal of needles?!
Knowing the stereotypical Midwestern gambler, my first (rational) thought was lancets for diabetes. What is your guess?
Posted 24 Mar 2009
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Perhaps you were at the resort/casino in Needles, CA.
(http://www.havasulanding.com/)
I assume they have tons of those containers there.
Perhaps you weren’t actually at a casino, but the fancy waiting room of a hospital.
@ Liam,
As a patient, I say to you “Don’t hospitals take enough of our money without having slot machines and poker tables in the waiting rooms??”
As a health care industry employee, I think “Brilliant!”
Ok, lemme put this one out there. Now, nobody wants a knife fight to happen, but if it does, shouldn’t we at least be prepared to dispose of the knives in a safe manner afterward?
@ Meghan
Going into a hospital is always a gamble anyway, isn’t it?
@ Meghan -
If they moved that hospital to the UK, the slot machines could be a way for the NHS to recover some of the costs of providing free healthcare.
@ Conall -
Knife crime here in the UK is an issue. I bet that young thugs would like the idea of disposing of the knives in a safe way … certainly they would not want to catch some nasty disease after having stabbed someone.
@ Conall,
Groan. Good one.
@ Liam,
I know, right? I think I should get to work on a new policy paper for both of our countries.
@ The Man
Yes. Keep on rockin player. Good one.
My work (not really in a medical field) recently installed these in all the bathrooms…they claim for people with diabetes and insulin issues.