No Morgue And Missing In Action

To no one's surprise, the opening of the new hospital has been delayed again. We're now looking at late November or Early December. I'm betting on next March.

There is one particularly odd thing about the new hospital; there is no morgue. We don't know if they forgot or if they just don't think that anyone is going to die. We're good, but we're not that good. So, what do they expect us to do with all of the dead bodies?

I mentioned this to a coworker and she asked if the new hospital has a basement and I said no. She replied, that is why there is no morgue. Morgues have to go in basements. I'm not making this up.

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We lost a patient today. I don't mean that the patient died, I mean that we couldn't find her. We were too busy at the time to really care, but the lab tech who came to draw her blood was seething. The recovery room told here that the patient had been sent up to us a long time ago and we were insisting that the patient must still be in the recovery room because we hadn't seen her.

The tech needed to draw the blood and she was being given the run-around. She made several more trips back and forth between our departments and was starting to behave like a cat caught in the sprinklers. She was sure that someone was lying to her and she was irate.

The patient had just had her hip replaced, so it seemed unlikely that she got up and walked out. Eventually, it was noticed that the orderly was missing also. Now that both had gone missing, none of this was making any sense. Had we not been so busy, this would have been an entertaining mystery to try and solve. As it was, though, we didn't especially care.

Nearly an hour later, the missing patient and orderly were found in the elevator.