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Thread #163388 Message #3897962
Posted By: Tattie Bogle
07-Jan-18 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your former odd jobs
Subject: RE: BS: Your former odd jobs
Not mine, but jobs some of my ex-patients had:
Chicken catcher - don't ask what happened next!
Banana ripener - loved his job, just had to keep turning them over.
Love Senofou's stories: I did work during vacation from being a medical student, on some of our hospital wards as what was then called a "ward orderly": might be "auxiliary nurse" these days. One ward was orthopaedics: elderly Jewish lady wakes up from anaesthetic after below-knee amputation. Her first question was , "Have you got it then?" "Have we got what?" says we. "My leg, my leg!" says she. Apparently, at least then in the 1960s, for those of the Jewish faith, any amputated parts had to be kept until the person eventually died, so that all parts can go together. So that's what all those things in pots were in our Pathology Dept!