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remote for everything. Which gives
me another idea:
How about a radiocontrolled stretcher? No offense, sir,
but patients weighing less than 200 lbs.
are fast becoming
the exception. Stretchers with remote controls would save our backs
and necks, plus it would be really cool to race them down the hallways.
• IT professionals for every OR to do our electronic charts for us. We
know that EMRs are the future, but we're trained in patient care, and
that's our primary objective. Documenting the time at which every person enters and leaves the room is not nursing. A dedicated computer
operator should be charged with figuring out why the blasted system
won't let you exit out of a field or what a message error means when
you're just trying to document that a scrub tech poked his head in to see
if he needed to scrub in or could just sit by and play with his phone.
• We'd be thrilled if you could bring us a surgical table that will
morph into any position possible, without ever requiring us to move
the patient out of a supine position. Like a Transformer! And it would
include padding and positioners that would fold out of pockets and
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