The Red Bags

Sorry the picture is out of focus; I was in a hurry. That's how it is at work lately. Anyway, that red bag is a bio hazard bag. It contains a bloody drain pulled from a patient.



We have special bio hazard bins for icky stuff like that, but the doctors find it easier to simply toss the bags under the counters at the nursing station.



In the doctor's defense, the bio hazard bins are ridiculously far away. Everything is far away at the new hospital. But if the doctors just toss bloody bags at the nursing station, then it becomes our problem and we have to go on the long trek to properly dispose of it.



It is tempting to just leave the bags there and let them pile up, but I'm pretty sure who would get in trouble and it wouldn't be the doctors.