Medical Music
Looking through some rarely used drawers at work, I found some interesting things. In the drawer with the lubricants, there is a cassette of Man of LeMancha. In another drawer with rubber hammers, is a Don Ho cassette. We don't even have a cassette player, so these must be left-overs from an earlier era.
It does seem kind of strange, though. I'm wondering if someone decided that Man of LeMancha is best for getting lubricated and Don Ho is best for getting banged (with a rubber hammer).
There was also a tuning fork in a drawer. Does anyone have any idea what that would be used for? The last time I checked, we didn't have a piano on the floor.
Written by Melissa on 12:41 AM
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I may be wrong but the tuning fork may be used to check for broken finger bones???? I heard that someplace when I was a kid.... that was about the same time Don Ho was popular I would guess.
Maybe somebody wanted to find out whether their harmonica was in tune.
I hope you're having a wonderful week.
Tuning forks are used for testing hearing, but also to diagnose diabetic polyneuropathy (PNP), according to the Web. :)
I was having trouble with my hearing, so an audiologist used a tuning fork on my head. It was really strange.
If the cassettes are from another era, exactly how old are the lubricants at your facility?
Patti, nowadays we use xrays to diagnose broken bones.
Gary, now I have to start looking for harmonicas.
Dave, at first I thought that maybe you went to med school.
Connie, I hope that your problem resolved itself. We do audiology tests on a regular basis because so many of the antibiotics we use damage hearing, but the technicians use some kind of automated machines. I bet if the tuning fork disappeared, no one would miss it.
Alan, the lubricants we use are all individually wrapped in single serving size packages. It's been that way since before I became a nurse over 5 years ago. The lubricants in that drawer are so old it's scary to think about.
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