Here in this case, there are some rather nasty looking (what I assume to be) drill bits. There is no other purpose that I can fathom other than to bore through a human skull... sometimes looking at these tools makes me somewhat nauseous... but I thought they belonged in this thread.

I sure hope I never have to have any of this stuff used on me.

Here is... well... I don't really know what this is either... but it looks like you insert it somewhere... It also looks rather unpleasant.

Behind it is what a doctor or a surgeon would see on a normal day, but to this security officer it looks like a scene right out of that movie Hostel...

My mom is a nuclear medicine tech and whenever I have to pick her up from the hospital I always go in and play with the geiger counters. Man that sound is creepy in real life.

>>1376
I think those are for spreading things apart, like in the middle of a surgery, the doc isn't gonna go arm deep in a person to do that.

..clicked "I like this".

They let you dick around with their stuff? Fun times, but surely there must be stranger stuff around there.

OP see if you can find one of these.

Pic related

>>1387

I'll have to scrub up, (to get in the OR's) but I bet I can find more weird stuff on my next shift. My next shift will be Saturday night.

>>1376
op, my paramedic girlfriend says that they are clamps for shutting (blocking?) of arteries and veins and various tubes inside your body.
Put a defibrilator on a piece of uncooked chicken and let it ride.

Steal pills and medical marijuana.

I'm pretty sure the clamps are for clamping cut blood vessels, as >>1390 said.
>>1378
This, I know not... Actually, I'm pretty sure you're at a body shop, not a hospital. I don't want that thing near any of my holes.

>>1390
Most defibrillators are able supposed to sense a gelled heart thingy IIRC, so I'm not sure if it would shock the chicken. Or maybe it would, I dunno.

>>1390

I read that as uncooked children.

Also, I'm excited for OP's Saturday shift.

Here's one of the new OR's... whenever I see an operating room I kind of get a chill down my spine. I mean come on, people get chopped up and opened in there! This OR is brand new though, never been used. Not yet anyway.

This operating table gives me the creeps as well... See the straps on it? It looks to me like something that would be used to torture someone, rather than save their life. Can't you just imagine someone undergoing live vivisection on it?

Creepy.

This is our morgue. It is little more than an industrial sized refrigerator. This hospital lacks a proper morgue, because we do not have a coroner's department, thus autopsies are not performed here. Hopefully when I transfer to a somewhat more established facility there will be a cooler one that I can show you guys pictures of.

I have not invested in image modification software, so I would much appreciate if one of you could rotate this thing for me...

Here is another view of one of the new ORs. These rooms are full of very expensive computer equipment. I would venture to say that each OR contains nearly two million dollars worth of gear.

These new operating rooms are in the hospital's as of yet completely unpopulated new wing. I walk around the place and there is no one there, so it's very quiet. Sometimes I will hear doors open and close and there will not be anyone there when I check them.... Maybe I should make a post on /x/ about my supernatural experiences here.

>>1514

>>1514
One time free.

>>1519

>>1525
:3

>>1525
>>1533

>>1534
Errr...

I had the misfortune of coming across this in the decontamination room. This can mean one (or both) of two things.

1) this is a deep penetration drill bit
2) it has been used recently

The more I walk these halls the more horrific implements of torture I find...

I like this thread.
Can you get us a look at some radiography stuff, The kind they use to treat cancer? I'm interested in that sort of thing, but even an x-ray room would do.

>>1555

Shouldn't be a problem, sir. I start work in 6 hours.

>>1565

in the decontamination room, would you get caught if you covered the tools in fake Halloween blood and hunks of twinkie?

I would LOVE too see how strong a will power the guys who clean that shit have...

Is it just your camera and bad lighting, or did they choose to paint that hospital piss yellow and shit brown?

>>1555

As requested, here is one of our X Ray rooms. It is really quite small in my estimation, and it is attached directly with another X Ray room. The other room is exactly the same.

>>1575

I'm afraid that your conjecture is quite accurate... the colour scheme here leaves much to be desired.

Here is one of the Cat Scan rooms. It is a great departure from the old days when people would be shoved in a tube. I once had to hold a drunk down on that bed whilst wearing a lead vest because he just would not cooperate. He was also screaming absolute jibberish and spitting in his "spit sock" which is pretty much just a mask that is placed over the face of "spitters."

Here's an interesting implement... It appears as though something is inserted in to the extrusion at the end, like it is some sort of stabiliser for a drill... The teeth on it are sharp, and look like they lock in to something. It looks like someone took Josef Mengele's silverware drawer and dumped it out here....

Hmm... It appears as though someone has left a vial of insulin laying about... I'll have to bring this to the security office and bag it.

Someone is in a lot of shit...

Just think OP, we use these things and facilities to mould flesh into whatever form we desire, to make it more perfect, to eliminate its little faults and breakdowns. Wonderful, isn't it?

>>1583
GET THAT FUCKER FIRED

>>1579>>1580
These are lovely. That X-ray room looks pretty different to the one at my hospital, much more clinical. Bigger than ours too, which is half-taken up by the operator's booth.
I'm not in a position to get pictures, or I'd post them. I don't have regular opportunities to look around either, but I'll see what I can do. I think a friend of mine has a real little camera I can borrow.

This is pretty cool. What's your work schedule, OP?

In addition to the awesome pictures of this thread, the style you type your posts in is amazing, they make this 100x more enjoyable. You are an amazing man. Be proud, you deserve it.

>>1595

I work graveyard shift. My life is similar to that of a vampire, except I don't suck blood at the hospital. I don't know who has aids.

>>1598

Thank you! It has been my pleasure perpetuating this thread. I will continue tonight. I'm running out of interesting things though. I'll come up with something else I'm sure.

>>1584

Okay, Dr. Steinman, we have ethics on the surface.

In the cath lab, I came upon this machine. I'm nut quite sure what it's intended purpose is, but it looks like it might have a radiographic use. It reminds me a little of that movie Robo Cop, with all the futuristic hospital crap... I can just imagine someone being given a new life on that table. I also heard from someone in EVS that this area is used to install pacemakers in the elderly.

>>1543

In regard to the referenced post, there was some interest expressed in further exploration of the decontamination room. The machines in this room disturbed me somewhat the first time I saw them, but then I realised that they were used to sterilize instruments. This would explain why I found that mammoth drill bit here. (And without fake blood and chunks of twinkie). There were some OR staff on the other side, so I had to remain stealthy here...

Those ovens do give an ominous impression though... I am reminded of ovens about that size used for other purposes in a very well known world conflict.

But, I digress...

The view from the hospital's roof is breathtaking at night... During the day it is quite lovely as well, because the Rocky Mountains can be seen from here, but to me there is just a certain mystique that comes from observing the landscape at night. The lack of lighting anywhere near the hospital might give you the impression that it is out in the middle of nowhere... You would be right in that assumption.

Regardless though, the crisp cool air mixed with the far off lights just adds to the ambiance above the ambulances....

(Pun very much intended.... :p )

Speaking of being on the roof, as I re entered the hospitals upstairs mechanical sector I thought that I would take a snapshot or two of the elevator machine room. I know that this was the first time I ever had the experience of seeing how an elevator really works (though it's really not too difficult to understand) in person. Let's go in, shall we?

This is the main motor unit for the elevator system. There is one per elevator, and there are 7 elevators. Three for general use, and 4 for staff. Because of HIPAA regulations, the staff elevators are located off the mail floor area and away from security cameras.

These enormous units are powered by equally enormous electric motors that are connected to mammoth gearboxes. These gears allow the motor's torque to multiply such that it can lift the 1500+ pound elevators each holding 2300 pounds of cargo. When the elevator is stopped at a floor, the wheel showcased here has (on the other side) a large drum (like a brake drum) with two inch thick brake shoes that lock in to place, holding the elevator still while people get on and off. Should the motor cease to operate properly, or the brake experience failure, this wheel is stopped by interruption of massive cotter pins that stick through holes machined in to it.

This left me to wonder... what happens in the (quite unlikely) event the cables break? The cables, however, are each about 5 centimeters thick (I am assuming aluminum aircraft cable). Each one is capable of suspending the elevator on it's own.

Of course, I could be mean and just shut the elevator down myself....

:D

>>1616
Don't they usually have mechanical or magnetic brakes at the bottom or on side tracks?

>>1622

Really not sure, elevator mechanics is not my forte. All I know is what I can see, and I am certain there are safeties in the way keeping the elevator safe.

>>1623
So, being a security guard, do you know much about medicinals? For emergencies of if someone broke in and fucked up something important or contagious, would you know how to stabilize the situation?

>>1657

My primary concern is the stability of the facility's security. I have no knowledge of medicine, so my first step in that situation would be to call the nursing supervisor so that they could get the correct people to the scene to diffuse the situation.

During that time I would be responsible for crowd control, maintenance of the scene for protection of any potential tampering evidence, and then relaying information to the police.

excellent photo tour, OP. I'm a 3rd shifter as well, though at a somewhat boring hotel. I love exploring all the nooks and crannies. I haven't made it to the roof yet, but I vow to, someday.

>>1669

One final question,
Are you armed?

>>1694
This bread is so delicious OP. Thank you.
Does this hospital have a spooky basement where all the plumbing is?

>>1712

Well, there isn't a pipe filled basement. The basement houses the morgue, and ironically enough, the kitchen. However, there is an interesting power plant out behind the dock. I would be happy to take some pictures in there for you all...

Points of interest in there would include, but not be limited to diesel generator engines that are nearly the size of a bus. Plus some really hot boilers and tons of power equipment.

I'll snap some photos tonight. I go to work Midnight MST USA. I've been using my cell phone camera for the other photos, but I think this time I'll take my nice fuji camera.

Unfortunately, tonight I have been shainghaied by the emergency room staff to watch a suicidal patient. However, this does not necessarily mean that I will be here all night, however with the gross incompetency and constant failures to meet deadlines at the facility it is a real possibility.

Anyway, here's to hoping I get out of here....

>>1612
I don't know what this is either. Doesn't look like anything I've seen in my hospital. I like it though.
I'm still no closer to getting any pictures either: Our security have a thing about cameras being taken into the hospital, you need to be able to provide an intended use for them and shit. There's a couple of power-trip nutters who think they can search you on demand and I don't want to piss them off. I'm not even allowed a phone on me so it's difficult, you know.

>>1753

Hide the camera in your underwear or something.

>>1753
What the hell are they hiding there? You MUST find out.

Next on the agenda, I snapped a good little photo of the main standpipe inside of the power plant. The standpipe has something to do with the fire control system. I do not know much about these systems, but this photo is eerie.... The pipes extend at least 30 feet below the surface, and there have been incidents of people falling down there who weren't paying attention. However, no deaths. It is now chained off at the end.

This is one of our massive diesel generators. Each of these engines is nearly the size of a commuter bus. They are twin - turbocharged with turbos the size of a full size truck tire. As you can see, the exhaust that spins them is emitted directly out the ceiling. There are 5 of these generators on the premesis. Behind me, there are two diesel fuel tanks each 8'x8', making them a massive 512 cubic feet of nothing but diesel fuel.

This room is very closely monitored, so I had to find a vantage point outside of the camera's view. Wouldn't you want to protect 2,560 cubic feet of diesel fuel?

I can only imagine if someone stuck one of these huge 12 cylinder engines in a vehicle.... That would be one fast bus!

As you can see, these engines are manufactured by Caterpillar. Caterpillar makes excellent equipment in my opinion.

Each of these head segments is the size of a large coffee can. I bet these engines have HUGE displacement. They can run for two whole days on their 512 cubic foot fuel tanks.

Even larger than the generators are the boilers. There are two in this plant. They heat the entire hospital. Each one can house a mid sized sedan, and they burn up in the thousands of degrees fahrenheit. The amount of energy it takes to run one of these must be stupefying.

Here's a picture of the boiler's peep hole. From the intense light displayed in this optic piece, the question of "how hot is it" can truely be understood. I don't even want to image how hot that is. I'm a cold weather person!

Now, this is the last thing I would expect to find inside this power plant. Someone left a very nice Suzuki in here! I sat on it :3 I'm trying to save enough money up to get my own motorcycle.... I wouldn't get one that fast though, probably just something comfortable to ride.

Anyway, this was in the same room as the boilers. The boiler room wasn't really too hot inside, those devices are VERY well insulated.

More pics tomorrow!

>>1776
That is certainly a very unusual spot to park your bike.

>>1776

Suzuki?

>>1780

Oops... yamaha. I was tired.

  >>1780
this thread is no longer about hospital antics, it is now about this DICK who wants to point out that this bike may not me a suzuki, way to be a DICK, DIC.K

Is there a bomb shelter down there?

>>1776

Sort of off topic here but, I might be getting my motorcycle tomorrow, if not later on this week :3. Used Kawasaki Ninja 500cc, only 4000 miles on it though!.

This is not OP btw. But I will take pics of it when I get it.

>>1790

This thread is once again about hospital "antics" as it was so eloquently penned.

I returned to the room with the generators, because door to the plant was wedged open. After searching the room, I found the power rating of the engines. Each one is 1350 Kilowatts, which translates to roughly 1800 horsepower.

Yow.

>>1794

No sir, there is not a bomb shelter.

>>1775

Is it just me or are there eyes in there?

>>1795
Here.

With my bike :D.

>>1835

That's really nice! I want one like that... Either that or a medium sized cruiser... they're more comfortable in my opinion.

>>1833

Quite correct!

Very astute of you, longshanks... That is actually a vent through which the natural gas fuel is fed, and sent in to the combustion chamber. I am suprised no one else said anything about this earlier!

Tonight I'm just sitting in the ER.... again.... watching a nutjob.... again.

*sigh*

Nice set present, this reminds me of a semi-abandoned office/factory setup above my dad's office.

>>1846
Your hospital doesn't assign techs for a 1-on-1? Or is the patient "combative" and they want you around just in case?

>>1907

Not only am I posted for the potential combativeness of a patient, but I am also put in place in order to guarantee the remainder of a patient who is on an M-1 Psychiatric hold. If they try to leave, I am within right to do what ever is necessary to keep them there. Once I have the patient restrained, I am aided by staff to put them in 4 points restraints until they calm down. (Normally it takes a dose of "vitamin h" to achieve this).

As an update to this thread, I have been stuck in the Emergency room for every night since my last post. I will have more pictures... I guarantee it... however, until I can get out of here that will be a tall order.

Anyway, tonight I am watching an individual who eluded police for nearly an hour. He has tried to run several times, and now he is asleep. If he wakes up, I'll probably be crossing hands with him.

Wish me luck!

>>1910

Tell us stories of restraining people.

Weirdest patient you remember? The worse you have hurt a patient trying to restrain him?

I feel safe at night knowing that a fellow btard is a security officer.

>>1775

lol, looks like HAL.

cool thread, you're surprisingly knowledgeable. You should get a picture of the chillers & cooling towers. And anything else in the plant for that matter. I work in the plant at a small hospital, it's really interesting for me to see what yours looks like.

>>2048

I'll get pictures of those for you just as soon as I can get a night where I'm not in the ER watching idiots all night long, lol. Don't give up hope! More photos will be coming!

>>2034

Well, as far as war stories go, the wildest thing I've had to do physically is break up a fight between two drunk mexican chicks.

Those of you who are IRC users might remember the story of the woman who believed that she was in labor and delivering a baby when she was not even pregnant. She DID have a surgical scar on her stomach though, which leads me to believe she had a baby and lost it. She sat there on the bed and held an imaginary baby and talked to it. It was kind of sad, but I laughed anyway because I'm an equal opportunity asshole...

There was an individual in here who spoke like Dr. Mephesto on South Park claiming he was the CEO of Denver.

There was an individual who had the living shit beaten out of him because he went upstairs to ask his neighbour to turn the music down. Next thing he knows he's got more than 50 stitches on his face, and he is extremely combative and speaking absolute jibberish. He spit at me, but I dodged it. (Fortunate, because it was a bloody loogie... gross...)

If I remember anything else I'll make sure to post it.

>>2049
>>2050
You're my hero.

Anyways, do you have any CDC suits in there? Any high tech labs or anything?

This thread entertained me, thank you very much op.

>>2081

But it is not over!

Once again I am free to roam the lonely halls of this lonely medical outpost. I say that it is a lonely outpost, as it is quite isolated by at least a half a mile on all sides.

Anyway, I found this piece of equipment in a very unusual place. This is a general access hallway in the new OR wing (The one that has, until recently been under construction... as of the 24th of this month it was opened. The OR photos taken earlier in this thread are now restricted to sterile personnel. I can never again enter there unless I scrub up. Not worth it) which is open to all. This has at least a six digit price tag, so why they would leave it in a general access hallway with no security cameras (HIPAA reglulatoin) ripe for the picking is beyond me. This hospital is really quite stupid as far as security goes, particularly considering that I am the lone officer here at night.

Did I mention that there is an exit door not 50 feet away?

As you can see in this photo, the unit is not a dummy. It is nuclear equipped, and left alone. This is foolish indeed, but not nearly as stupid as what I saw next!

They left the damn thing armed! I can't believe it! I switched it off, and now have the keys in my pocket... but geez! If you feel like calling someone who is responsible for the maintenance and vending of these units, the necessary procedures should not be particularly difficult as to how... but... just because this is a piece of demo equipment for sale doesn't mean that they should leave nuclear materials scattered about.

Wonder what I'll find tomorrow....

Present you are the most ever.

<3

Also: you have the best.

<3

No ones suggested for him to post a picture of his dick on something or something in his dick yet. What the fuck.

(USER WAS FOUND TO BE IN VIOLATION OF THE REGULATIONS SET IN PLACE BY THE INTERNAL GUIDE TO MODERATION AND THEREFORE HAS BEEN BANISHED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)

>>2126
I think you might be in the wrong place...

>>2126
>>2127

>>2126
No dicks up in here, buddy.

In after faggotry:

On a more serious note, last night around 9pm MST, an 18 year old girl who had been admitted to the Emergency Department because of a serious drug overdose cored (to core is to go unresponsive) and died right there in the emergency room. The officer I relieved was on duty at the time and had the responsibility of securing the room and kicking everyone out before the police arrived. The county coroner collected the body half an hour later. It is very sad news.

However....

Why does all the interesting shit happen when I'm not there?!

Looks like someone was REALLY hungry....

This is one of the doors to the dry goods storage room... Or rather it was. Someone has broken in to and stolen from this room. The only thing inside this room, however, is non perishable food. After a search of this room, I find that most of the stuff is still there, which leads me to believe that very little was taken.

I doubt very much that the cleaning staff had anything to do with it... They have keys to the kitchen, but I know them well and doubt that they would do something like this. I know that the house supervisor will go in the kitchen here and forget to lock the door now and then... I just don't know. All I know is that this means more paperwork.

*sigh*

There are no cameras in this room, as well as many areas throughout the hospital, as HIPAA regulations forbid it, so unless the administrators, or my company can come up with a better control system for the hospital, this sort of thing will continue to happen.

Last night a girl arrived at our front entrance disoriented and dazed... I aided her to the emergency department and she was admitted. Turns out she had overdosed on ambien, and was dropped off by her friends at the hospital. They just left her there at the main entrance. Her sister and her friend and boyfriend showed up a little later, but they were drunk. So was the patient in question. The police were called by ER staff and each of the 4 individuals were issued MIP's (minor in posession) for alcohol. Here's the kicker: the police would never have been called if not for their bragging about "how drunk they are." If I was an underage kid who was drunk, I'd have shut the fuck up.

Wow... people...

sticky for permanent bump

>>2076

There is a laboratory here, however it is cimply for medication and for analyzing samples from patients. This hospital is quite ancillary in it's capabilities. We don't even really have a proper morgue because we do not have a coroner's facility. I have never seen any sort of CDC or Environment suits here...

At this point, I would like to ask the much appreciated patrons of this thread for requests. Please keep them feasible, and keep in mind that I must not violate HIPAA regulations. If there is anything you would like to see, please let me know!

Detailed schematics would be nice.

>>1580

In a follow up to this post (way back when)...

I was making my rounds in the radiology wing when I found a door that I had neglected in the past. It was labeled "MRI Computer."

I thought it would be interesting to see an MRI/Radiology/CT scan supercomputer. When I entered the room I was surprised to find it to be as small as it was. I actually had to turn sideways to walk past the 6 foot tall units depicted here. These machines use so much power! The noise in here from the cooling fans was quite incredible. I'm sure we've all heard our computers make whirring noises whilst loading something, but the sound this made was almost aircraft - like. The hard drives and the cooling fans on these machines are enormous!

As aforementioned, the cooling fans on these machines were quite large. Each of the fans you see here are close to the diameter of an average pie tin. They were spinning at full power, because a Cat scan was being performed in the CT room next door while I was taking these photographs. I cannot imagine the amount of electricity these machines consume.

This thread reminds me of point-and-click adventure games, even by the way you write your posts. Hell, a hospital like this would be an excellent milieu for such a game. I'm already conjuring up a /pro/ject in my mind.

Present, I would like to thank you for an excellent thread.
Request: Hospital staff parking garage. Given how highly payed doctors are there's bound to be some nice vehicles (like that Yamaha in the boiler room).

>>2233

There is not a parking garage, but there are certainly some very nice, and very expensive cars that find their way to our hospital. Excellent idea! I'll post em up starting Saturday night.

>>2236

I found a BMW 645 ci. I don't know much about BMW's other than I don't like them very much. This car looked expensive though, so I took a shot of it.

This computer provided a nice opportunity... This is part of the machines used for endoscopy. If you don't know what endoscopy is, that's where they insert cameras... in you. That's right, this is where they keep the butthole filming equipment. Figures this is the only place I'd be able to sport 99chan, lol.

99chan: we'll film inside your butthole :3

Here is a backed out view of the cart. Notice all of the extra computer equipment stacked on it.

I just got a call from dispatch, I need to go.

>>2266

Well, that was a big bunch of nothing...

Anyway, that cart has a huge amount of equipment on it. It was so heavy to push that I had to put my back against it and use my legs. Each machine was interconnected, too... I found that to be somewhat peculiar.

I think that thing at the bottom is what they hook the "camera equipment" to.

This cart was parked next to it. Geez, how much gear do they need to look up your ass?! It's just a little video, it's not like they're spackling your anus and making it in to some kind of living space or anything...

As you can see by the "Narkomed" label, it's connected to a drug cart. Maybe they use something in there to deaden your asshole enough to get the camera in without having to goatse you.

I think I'm going to leave this topic alone now....

Tonight looks like another night in the ER. I'm gonna be sitting here watching a drunk and a cutter, so I'll be checking this thread periodically....

>>1773 cat engines are evil to service. they require a lot of cat built speciality tools and other kinds of lameness. come to think of it cat high-torque patterns are pretty retarded too. in addition to these things they cost a shit-ton of money compared with competitors. pretty reliable though

>>2317
Same thing with a ferrari.

That doesn't change the fact that they are hella long lasting and powerful.

>>1376

Awesome roach clips.

>>1376

Awesome roach clips.

>>2265

i think you're confusing endoscopy with colonoscopy.
pretty sure endoscopy goes down your esophagus to your stomach.


if you're doing requests, can you get me a box of fentanyl lollipops?
i mean a picture of a box of fentanyl lollipops.
(no really, the first one.)

>>2345

I'm afraid I don't know what those are, but I'll find out and then see if I can snap a photo of some for you. I'm off till Saturday night.

>>2357

I got stuck in the ER tonight watching some drunk faggot piss himself 3 times. I'll be excited to see him v& this morning since he was already v& for drunk driving. He was not taken to prison because of his .430 B.A.

This is me in the elevator. This white cart I'm pushing is a body transport cart. Inside is a very unfortunate 47 year old breast cancer victim. Aren't they supposed to have a cure for this shit yet?

Family wasn't in the room, but I could sense that there was an enormous amount of grief in that room... of course, there always is when a family member dies... but...

It's just really sad. This patient is in the morgue now.

>>2397
Why are you, a security guard, pushing around dead bodies?

>>2405

It's part of my job description. A human body is very valuable, particularly when the body is one of a beloved family member. It is actually considered property once the person dies, therefore security is responsible for making sure that the body arrives safely and is locked up in the morgue. It is then our duty to release the body to the mortuary where they are prepared for viewing at a funeral.

This is so frustruating... I have been stuck in the ER all week so far. I'll be in here all night again watching emo idiots who can't get past their own shit.

*sigh*

>>2345

I apologize, but after researching what this item is, I have come to the conclusion that a photo of this would be a chance happening at best. Since it is such a powerful drug it is no doubt locked up in the pharmacy. The pharmacist is the only person with a key to it. Therefore unless I happen upon them by chance, a photo is unlikely.

These have been staring me in the face all night long and I've no idea what they are. It says something about one being aerobic, and the other being anaerobic.... could they be steroids?

>>2434

My guess is that it's either bottles of something which kills bacteria, or bottles of.. erm.. actual bacteria (seeing as Bacteria come in two delicious flavours - aerobic and anerobic).

>>2434

Umm, google anyone? Took me all of 15 seconds.

http://www.bd.com/ds/productCenter/BC-Bactec.asp

Click on the link for BACTEC™ Fluorescent Series Bar Coded Blood Culture Media. There's a list of products, and you can see the names of the two in the picture.

>>2436

The guessing is the fun part.

>>2439

So is actually finding out. :3

I don't know how many of you have been in or around an ambulance, but a nice little opportunity presented itself to me tonight. There was a severe trauma patient rushed in to the ER tonight (consequently stabilized and sent to the ICU). The EMT's left the ambulance doors open. As a courtesy I closed it up for them, but not before snapping a photo :3

This is the first time I'd ever seen inside an ambulance.

>>2475

Ooh, that's pretty neat. I like this thread.

>>2478
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
When I was really young some girl let me ride on her pegs but didn't tighten them, so after about 10 seconds my foot slipped and went into the spokes, she rode for around 3 seconds after I started screaming.

Anyway, she called 911 because she thought my foot was broken (Ankle =/= foot, Christ) and when the ambulance came, they took me inside and I remember being in wonder as the inside was so furnished and nice, it looked like a little hotel room.

If I ever found a decommissioned ambulance for cheap and needed a place to stay, you bet your ass I'd buy it. Install an RV toilet and get a satellite card, I'd be set.

Use the drugs storage as a fridge, EMT told me you can either set it to cooler or heater.

>>2483

Fuckawesome. I need to look around govt surplus auctions now...

Since I have been in the ER all night, I thought (that since it has been very dead in here all night, and I've only one psych to watch, and she is asleep and in restraints) that I would take a picture of perhaps one of the most used rooms in the ER. I am talking, of course, about the trauma rooms. This trauma room is fully equipped to handle everything from a minor injury to open heart surgery. I have seen surgeries performed in this very room, and they were started and finished very quickly. I also saw a patient die in this room. It was an old man who came in with an ambulance crew. They were pumping his chest as they hurriedly wheeled him in to the room. He was surrounded almost instantly by doctors and nurses. They had him hooked up to almost every machine you see in this photo in less than 15 seconds. They actually had him stabilized after him dying 3 times... the last time though was final. He was wheeled out of that room in a body bag, and I sent him on to his mortuary.

>>2495

It sucks that the guy died and everything, but the fact that your hospital, which I am guessing isn't major league but is just average, can help people so fast and with such effort makes me proud to be part of the western, capitalist world, notwithstanding the huge amount of waste in the system on useless tests as opposed to cheap preventive care.

>>2501
Save that for /pol/.
Present, I'm wondering if you could get any pics of a Battlefield 2 style jet injector gun.

>>2502

I can only assume that you were poster # >>1387.

I spoke with a nurse here at the hospital. She told me that those sort of injection devices are normally reserved for emergencies such as epidemics or other severe incidence. She informed me that we do not have those at the hospital (this nurse is a friend of mine, I can tell if she's B.Sing me, and she wasn't). She did tell me about a time in Minnesota where she received an injection... a vaccine from a jet gun. She was in line by her school, and they were giving students last minute injections so that they would be able to attend.

That is a touch too hardcore for a little place like this. Sorry Dmitri.

Actually, the power tools request wasn't posted by me.
Oh well. I'll just have to wait for the next pandemic. Good thing I bought my friend's GP-5 gas mask.

>>2270
I work materials management at a hospital, and you wouldn't believe the amount of weird things I've delivered. Endoscopy and Endoscopy accessories for those machines is about half of the ORs order.

OP this thread is seriously one of the more interesting reads ive seen in a while, thanks. Sad to hear all the stories about those suicidal people. Especially only 18 years old. Poor girl. Well - these tools are interesting at least.

Some guy asked about radiography. My mom's a radiographer, works in a mobile breast care unit and other times the local hospital. We actually had one of those light boxes that are used to view x-rays of, along with an x-ray. I'm pretty sure my step dad sold the light box but I might be able to scavenge the pics he used to advertise it with.

You are the friggin' man.
This is probably the most interesting thread I've ever.. Er, read.

>>2509

No, he is not >>1387

I posted >>1387

I forget if you ever got that pic anyways.

well, normally i merely lurk, but this is so awesome i felt i had to throw in my appreciation. keep the picks and commentary coming!

>>2747

I really appreciate that! Thanks! :)

best thread i've read in a long while!
keep posting :3

>>2475

I recommend becoming an EMT and volunteering (or getting a job) with a rescue squad. I've been doing it since I was 16 (21 now) and love it a lot.

There are more people not involved with or going into medicine at the one I volunteer at than those who are pre-med or in med school.

I actually have duty tonight-- 6p to 6a.

>>2812
How would I go about becoming an EMT?

Would I just show up at the hospital with a resume and tell them I took academic biology in grade 11?

And what bonuses does it give if, say, I want to get into med school?

I have passed by nuclear medicine time after time. There's never really anything going on in there. On a whim I decided to open the door and go inside. (There's nowhere I can't go!). I found the hot lab, and this is where they store the nuclear materials for nuclear medicine such as chemotherapy and the like.

I don't know precisely what they use in there (I doubt it's anything particularly dangerous) but if it's nuclear materials I am certain I didn't want to be in that room for too long without some sort of suit. I snapped this photo, and entered (I found the code hidden cleverly in plain site on the wall to the extreme right side). There were a lot of very thick heavy (I assume lined with lead) containers which I did not dare open. There was also a hood where I assume they handle the stuff and there was something inside glowing.

That is when I decided that I might want to have children one day, so I left.

>>2831

Look for EMT classes in your area. Google is your friend, as are any local rescue squads.

I like the volunteer squad gig where I am, since we legally can't do straight up transports (like a taxi service). The only way we can go to a call is if someone calls 911 with what they say is an emergency. Because of my own experience I'd recommend the volunteer route if you can; you meet a lot of cool people.

Your school background doesn't matter. There are plenty of people with no science background who took the classes required and know what they're doing.

It's a whole lot of fun (except the 6 am calls when you're about to leave like we had this morning), and it looks good on a resume. It won't get you into med school by itself, but it sure is a help. It also looks good since you're volunteering and it's fairly respectable. Definitely a good resume padder and way to meet people/spend time.

>>2838

you can volunteer for an emt job?


thats awesome lol. They get training im sure but I always thought you needed like a two year degree.

Tonight, the ER is filled to capacity, and any additional patients must be placed in the hallways. I don't know why it's so hectic right now, but it is a rarity.

Anyway, I come to sit down and relieve the other officer. I reach in to the pen can to get a paper clip to put the three watches' paperwork (I am watching 3 idiots tonight) together and I feel a small bottle.

This is the bottle I found. I know nothing of medicine (as you all know) but it can't be good. Isn't nitroglycerine dangerous? Explosive? Is there a version that isn't as volatile that they give to people? This is in pill form so I am assuming it has something to do with people who have heart conditions.

Anyway, this is a prescription only medicine, so someone is in some serious shit when I give this to my captain tomorrow.

Thanks OP. I'm actually becoming a nurse and I find the subject of surgery to be quite fascinating indeed, so this really helps me realize what I'm going to get into when I get the job.

It only makes me want to do it more, actually.

>>2857
Wikipedia says it's for heart patients. Strange place to find heart medicine, eh?

If anyone wants crutches, speak now!

I've been a little bored tonight and have been checking out locked rooms. I couldn't help but take a photo here, seeing how I've never seen so many crutches together in my life. I wonder how long they've been there? I haven't seen anyone leave the ER in crutches since I started working here.

This storage room was in the ER, which (as opposed to the last time I talked about it) is only about 25% full. I haven't been on any nutcase watches tonight (phew) so I've been taking the opportunity to stretch my legs.

I'll enjoy my legs while I can, especially after seeing this!

This enormous room is at the top of the hospital. Behind me is about half a football field of space that is occupied mostly by vents, ducts, water, and steam pipes. The panels on the right contain the controls for the HVAC systems in the hospital. Basically keeps the air fresh, and keeps the air pressure up in some hallways. (A lot of hospitals have pressurized hallways in order to keep good air in and bad air out).

Here is a close up of the panel on the right. This panel houses the power switches for all of the HVAC systems. I can turn them off and on at will. (But, I shouldn't). You might notice one panel switch has a danger tag on it. This tag is put in place whenever there are people working on a particular circuit. The switch is moved to the "off" position and then locked in place. The tag says on one side "Turning this circuit on without the proper authority will result in immediate dismissal." On the other side it names the circuit being worked on, and is signed by the Job Foreman.

It's a great opportunity to woozler... considering I have bolt cutters... but they're not here because it's 02:50am and I sort of like being employed.

As a reference to the last post, when I said "football field" I meant handegg football. (American football).

>>2839

EMT-B is basically a "semester" long, and it's the basic stuff. No IVs/intubation; that's paramedic, and THAT is the one that takes a lot more time to do.

I've been volunteering there as an EMT since I was 16. It's fun!

Have you seen scrubs?

And if so, you remind me of the janitor sort of.

I don't know why, but i can picture you as the janitor. You seem too sweet and humerus to be him, though :)

>>2907

Lol, humerus :3

I found a weird tool tonight. What in the name of zeus' butthole is this for? It looks kind of like an oil dipstick for a car engine. Where would they put this? (I hope it's in a hole that they make, and not one that is pre existing... could you imagine having this in your nose, or something?)

Anyway, I found another one that made me nostalgia so hard... It's next.

Did you ever play operation as a kid? It was one of my favorite games. I used to think it was funny when the guy's nose would light up and my mom would tell me I was mean for laughing... but I didn't care. These look just like the tweezers you would use to take the little plastic bones and shit out of the guy.

I dunno, I thought it was kinda funny. Being in a hospital and all, and this being in a surgical tools tray.

Lastly, in a blatant and inane gesture of stupidity, someone has left four boxes of dermabond tubes out and completely unsecured. For those of you who don't know what dermabond is, (I learned from the recovery room nurse) it is used for closing cuts, kind of like liquid stitches. Anyway, these tubes are $70 US per piece. Not per box... per piece... can you imagine how much money is just sitting here?

I'm feeling like an inconsiderate and somewhat angry person tonight, so I'm just going to leave them. This hospital makes enough fucking money, they can afford to lose this.

Funny. I work at a hospital and my best friend there is the armed security room down at the ER.

Yep. Don't quite get the point of this thread though.

>>2913
those are sugery tools, instead of going all old fashion and cutting you up, they just make itty bitty cuts, just big enough to fit those in, and then do all the make-you-better through there!
you get smaler scars, and it's both safer and easier to do this way!

yay head surgeon as a mom

>>2976
again

oh, and they got these huge computers to help them, that are voice commanded :3

my mom had one of the first ones in the country, they named it HAL

>>2836
I have been in that kind of lab, and a yellow sign means "not that much danger". You don't need a suit, and you didn't risk getting contaminated, either.
As an anecdote, once the geiger counter started to freak out. The guy in charge didn't care and just turned it off.

Present, man, I fugging love you and this thread.

If you need help identifying anything you find laying around, I'm sure my mom could help you with some of that, and some other kind anons as well.

Any chance we could get a video tour of certain areas that you won't get shitcanned for filming in?

Until then, keep the laughs and cool pics coming, man.

>>3000

That's a great idea. I can give you a tour of the OR's. I'll make a video when I get a chance to. I'll post it on youtube when I do. I just hope I don't end up in the ER again... Watching whiny emo cutters, ya know?

>>3022
Heh. Trust me, I know. Been on both ends of that shtick.

Well, I'll be waiting for the video, and I'm sure some other people will be interested in it as well.

Also, I believe someone said that the pictures and the way you write your posts kind of make this seem like a point-and-click adventure. If you're interested, I know a few people that would be more than willing to put something like that together.

>>3022
Oh dear god yes.

I fucking.. Oh man this is gold.

>>2924

>What is the POINT of this thread
I will take your sorry ass to /philosophy/, and kick it, son.

>>3067

I've found many a point on the surgical tools here...

I am stuck in the ER tonight, but I have my camera with me every night, so I should be able to take a video somewhat soon.

>>3072
*rimshot* Nice pun, man.

>>2270
That's a Narkomed anesthesia machine. The GS model.

I remember someone asking for sexy cars.

I found this little babe in the parking lot of the new OR wing. I think it is either a carrera or a 911... but I'm not sure because all emblems have been shaved off. It just says "turbo" on the back. Maybe some of you /drive/rs can inform us on precisely what this model is.

I have to admit... when I saw it, I came a little.

***Update on the video***

I've been busy doing a lot of other shit. Idiots keep losing their posessions, and leaving doors unlocked, and emo's keep stinking up my ER.. so... I should be able to do it tonight if no one goes David Carradine on us.

>>3106

Looks like a porsche if i'm not mistaken.

>>3108
*facedesk*

Of COURSE it's a Porsche, you tard. He's just not sure on what model it is.

*facedesk* Just, just get out, OK? There's no excuse for that level of stupidity.

Relax >>3111. Go easy on the guy, he'll be cured of his foolishness when he lurks in /drive/ for a while. We all say stupid shit here at one time or another.
Thank ye for this fine car, I too am unsure what model it is as I'm not really into Porsches (the purists scare me off. "Porsche Nazis" I call em).
Video you say? Excellent. I humbly request displays of blatant stupidity.

>>3106
that would be a Neunelfer Turbo. Its a 996 chassis, so it has to be a 2000-2004.

>>3108
looks like a ford.

>>3106

Oh Murphy and his law. I was vexed by yet another psychiatric hold the other night. I am currently not in town, so I won't be adding any new stuff until next tuesday. I'll still be available to chat on IRC from time to time. Stay tuned, everyone.

Well, back to work then.

Tonight there are cleaners in the kitchen cleaning out the hoods over the fryer, so I decided to go check on them. When I arrived in the kitchen, I found no one so I locked it up after searching it. I found these knives on a cutting board by the large mixers. I stopped and looked at them for a minute and thought: "If this is supposed to be a weapons free safe haven, why would anyone in their right mind leave the door to the kitchen unlocked with unsupervised cleaners from another company having direct access to them?" The stupidity of this hospital as far as security goes never fails to astonish me.

Here are the knives. The swiss army knife is for scale.

Here is the pharmacy. No, I am not inside, as I do not have access, but I walked in for an aspirin and when the nice lady left the desk to get me one I went ahead and snapped a photo. This room is quite large. About the size of an average living room, and those small bins cover all of the walls completely. Not to mention the several rows of shelves they have in the middle of the room. The lady came back before I could take any more, but I happen to know that our pharmacy contains LSD, Marijuana, and Cocaine among other things.

>>3346
I've got a bigger knife than that strapped to my leg. But yeah, leaving the door unlocked and them unsupervised = MASSIVE security failure.

>>3347
I get the weed, but why would you guys need crack and LSD? I mean, at least weed has it's medicinal uses (smoking pot = massive case of the munchies, so it's perfect for getting someone to eat if they refuse).

Also, welcome back, Present. Been kinda dull around /regs/ without ya.

>>3350

I confiscated those knives and took them to the security office. They are now locked in the safe. Now the idiots in the kitchen will have to hunt for them all day. Lol.

As far as the LSD and Crack in the pharmacy, I think they are ingredients for more powerful sedatives... I don't really know though. Mine is not to question why, mine is but to do or die.

I've one more post to share before retiring for the day. In the parking lot by the new OR wing, I found this. This is a Mercedes Benz AMG S 65. I think this is a quarter million dollar car. Don't know for sure, so don't shitstorm me, /drive/rs. This car has a Bi - Turbo V 12 and sits on 20 inch Pirelli P Zero Nero's. The tires are bald in the back, so I'm guessing the young (probably Doctor) fool that drives this likes to roast 'em up. I was impressed by the car. The disc brakes on this thing are the size of a medium pizza!

Now I'm hungry. Goodnight for now, /regs/.

>>3366

Weird, LSD and cocaine aren't sedatives themselves.

LSD was at one time used in therapeutic sessions for the treatment of debilitating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

>>3381

Well, Like I said before, I know essentially nothing about drugs or medicine.. so.. I was just guessing.

So Glad To Be Back!! :D

Found this sexy little number outside yesterday morning. I normally don't like the BMW's that much, but this one looks like the exception to the rule. Aren't Bimmers normally sedans? If I was going to buy a Bimmer, I think it'd be this one.

The inside was trashed though. That's one slobby, lazy doctor.

This car caught my eye more than the Bimmer. This is a 1995 XJ6. You just don't see 'em like this anymore. The doctor that got out of it was wearing one of those brown jackets with the patches over the elbows, so I'm guessing he's one of those "I like older stuff guys." There again, I am too.

The only thing that disappoints me about this car is the fact that it is a FordJag. Otherwise it's sexy.

Just came on duty and already found more stupidity at Fail Hospital.

You all know that this is a pickaxe. What you don't know is that it was found (by me) leaning up against the wall outside the physical plant, which was also unlocked and wide open. I picked it up and slung it over my shoulder and proceeded to search the plant for intruders. After clearing the place, I left this pickaxe on the boss' desk with a note.

What I wrote:

I found this leaning up against the wall by the door OUTSIDE. - Security

What I wish I could have written:

Dear twat,
I don't know what kind of operation you run here, but you and your employees are clearly ape like in your intelligence. It takes a pure stroke of genius to leave a pickaxe outside of an unlocked physical plant, where I am sure no one would ever go inside and severely damage vital systems keeping people alive. In addition, I would like to applaud you as a pickaxe like this one is a perfect item to leave unsecured where there is a hospital full of defenseless sick people not 20 feet from here. You should be ashamed of yourself, you stupid dick.

Sincerely, Security

PS: Everyone on the internet knows what an idiot you are.

Something else you probably picked up, those are my shoes in the photo. :3

Damn, son.

Become the evil security guard.

Also take a vidiya.

>>3395
In situations like that, I think the second note would have been appropriate, if not warranted.

Doing something THAT colossally retarded basically voids your captain's decision-making process if you get in trouble over that (at least, it would where I'm from, not so sure about where you're at).

Well... I was wondering when it was going to happen. Looks like we just got our first few cases of swine flu. Of course it took me pawoozlering to find this sign in the ER. The people who work in this ER are utterly useless and have a stupid butthurtedness about them when it comes to security. (One of their "pals" got fired and they blame us for it). So, now they just don't tell us anything.

It makes me a little nervous working in a place where the swine flu has been. Also, considering that school has just started back up and we've had a lot of coughing kids with flu symptoms in here I can definitely expect a lot more. Oh well... it's just part of the job I spose.

>>3409
I had whooping cough as a baby. They almost put me in the hospital with a trach tube, but didn't. Up until a few years ago, they thought that whooping cough was eradicated from the US, but it is now coming back all over the country.

If you're worried about swine flu, take extra precautions. Mask, hand sanitiser, regular hand-washing, etc. Anyways, because you work in a hospital, aren't you a candidate for the vaccine when it comes out?

>>3418

According to command, all officers will be inoculated against swine flu. My captain has guaranteed me that.

As for handwashing, our hospital has hand sanitizer foam canisters mounted on the walls every ten feet or so (it would seem) and I go Monk every time I'm at work, so let me just say that by the time I am off duty my hands are paper dry from all the damn hand cleaner I use.

Dear patrons of this thread:

Thank you so much for your interest in this topic. I appreciate the participation I have received, and the compliments given to me about this thread.

I have good news for you all. I will have a TON of fresh new content for this thread very soon.

I have been transferred to a new facility, and this hospital is known to have, shall I say, more action than my current assignment. I also understand that this new facility has a proper morgue floor. In addition it is an older hospital than the one I am currently at, so I am sure I will have some more /x/ related content as well.
I am also pleased that it will mean more money and more responsibility for me as well. :D

Stay Tuned! I transfer in one week!

>>3441
Freaking. EPIC, man. Congrats on getting transferred (does that mean a pay raise, too, or not? Just asking), and I can't wait for more stuffz to be posted.

Just don't forget about that vidya, OK?

>>3446
>I am also pleased that it will mean more money and more responsibility for me as well. :D
if you're that interested, read the post

also, woo congratulations!

one of the few reasons i still visit 99chan (other than porn boards) and its about to get better, i salute you Present

>>3446
>>3449
>>3456

Thank you all for your encouragement! I can't wait to start my new assignment!

awesome thread, I've had a lot of fun following it.

I happen to have a bunch of pictures of the creepy little mostly abandoned old hospital I work at, if anyone wants to see them, and if Present doesn't mind me posting them here.

>>3465

Please, be my guest. Far be it from me to keep participation out!

Last night the door to the nursery broke and it would not secure, so I was assigned to guard the nursery :3

The little babies were all sleeping, so it wasn't that much of a chore, but when I turned around and looked behind me, I found a room that frightened me more than any morgue, or any dead patient's room.

This, my friends, is the circumcision room. It is in the back of the nursery. The macabre horror of this room haunted me the entire night. In keeping with the "no dicks" rule on this board, I will go in to no further detail, but I will show you something perhaps more horrifying in the next frame...

This is a circumcision station. Notice the shape of the station, and the fact that there are straps.

The straps.

They strap the baby down. They strap it down.... THEY STRAP IT THE FUCK DOWN......

I feel nauseous.

>>3482>>3484

Recently I took a tour of a hospital for a class, and I really wish I had had a camera. It was before this thread existed though, I think.

Anyways, we got to see the Ob-Gyn unit, and they have alarms on the doors that ring if you hold them open for too long. This is to prevent people from stealing babies - theoretically they would have to hold the door open long enough to wheel the little carts out.

We were going to go in to see the little babies, but then we were told we couldn't because a circumcision was going on in the room attached to the nursery. That's when we heard the crying start. The poor thing just shrieked for a few minutes. Meanwhile, we saw some birthing rooms, and just as we were about to leave a nurse brought the swaddled baby out to give back to the family. He had tears in his eyes, but had stopped crying. Poor kid. ;_;

Anyways, this was a fairly small hospital, built in the early 60's and definitely looked it. The main floor had these long hallways with no windows, fluorescent lights, cement floors, and block walls - and everything was painted teal. It was very surreal walking down them.

Then there was the Ped's or children's unit, which used to be an entire floor and no longer exists. Apparently they used admit kids to the hospital for everything - cold, flu, ear infection, etc. In the last 30 years, they switched to giving treatments that can be done at home so that kids can be with their parents instead of left at the hospital. Any child admitted goes to their regular Medical-Surgical unit with everyone else or gets transferred to a bigger hospital.

Anyways, now that floor is defunct, and they use it for....storage! Tons of dusty old medical equipment filled the rooms and lined the hallways. Right after the tour guide had told us this was a storage floor and there was no-one on it, I walked past a room and saw out of the corner of my eye two beds with people lying on them. Freaky. They turned out to be mannequins lying on old beds, but I don't know why a hospital would have mannequins.

Another thing we saw were old cribs - basically 3'x4'x4' open-topped cages with vertical metal bars and a thick foam mattress on the floor. They were built on a stand with wheels so that the 'prisoners' could be moved around easily.

>>3484
>>3485
americans talking bad about circumcision? well this is new.

anyways, you know why the kid had stoped crying so shortly after the circumcision? because it hurts. like, you can not imagine how bad it hurts. the children don't eat, they don't sleep, they don't piss or shit for over 24 hours after the cut. we're talking they don't even cry for the period it hurts so bad. they just lie there in shock for over a day.

>>3486

Make no mistake, dear sir. Although circumcision is a barbaric and horrific practice, it is quite necessary. I am happy to have had it done to me because for one, I don't remember it (thank cthulu) and second, it is preferable for sanitary purposes. So although it is horrific and nauseating to think of it, I am happy to have had it done.

What in the Sam Hill is this?

I've walked by it so many times, and thought to myself "That looks like a damn monkey's cage." Perhaps it's for like... retarded kids that can't stop throwin' stuff, or swingin' at people. It's got a transparent plastic dome on top of it, and it's surrounded by bars... so... I'm just wondering if I'm not too far off base... : /

I apologize for the poor image quality, I took this picture with my phone, and I was walking by at the time. I didn't want any of the nurses to see me taking this photo.

it appears to be a crib.

>>3495

>>3485 here. Same thing as I described, except the ones I saw were taller (4' high), perhaps for older toddlers.
>>Another thing we saw were old cribs - basically 3'x4'x4' open-topped cages with vertical metal bars and a thick foam mattress on the floor. They were built on a stand with wheels so that the 'prisoners' could be moved around easily.

OP this was a great read, others stupidity cheered me up thanks.

>>3493
Present, I love your thread and am not trying to woozler or get off-topic, but calling circumcision >necessary is poor word choice at best and completely wrong at worst.
That aside, I've loved the pictures. Keep them up, and good luck with the transfer!

I found the physical plant open... again... 3rd time this week, and I have lost count of how often it has been this way since I've been at this hospital, but whatever.
In the corner of the boiler room there is this collection of pipe segments. I was in here with another security officer the other night and he mentioned that this would be an excellent source of materials for making... less than favorable items.
I am so happy to be getting out of this hospital, as the security here is a joke. Pipe bombs anyone?

Also, my dear /regs/, this is my last night at this hospital. I have totally checked out, so I'll just be swoozlering around chatting with people and probably will end up in the surgery waiting room watching TV later tonight. My next post will contain the beginning of new, fresh, and as always original content.

Stay Tuned!

>>3484

I would prefer strapped than unstrapped.....consider that.

>>3535

Sweet. I will be awaiting your new posts.

>>3535
No offense man, but you seem kind of paranoid about the potential for violence in your hospital.

>>3535
>3rd time this week
Ah, someone left the verb adjective. THIRD TIME THIS WEEK.

Also to the poster above me, he's a security guard. He has to be paranoid to be good.

>>3574

>Also to the poster above me, he's a security guard. He has to be paranoid to be good.

Quite correct.

My first night at the new hospital ended up being my first night and a half. It turns out that several people left the hospital security force, so the Lieutenant is having a hard time filling the shifts.

Anyway, There are a few areas in this 20 year old hospital that are abandoned. Unlike my prior assignment, this hospital is not a brand new state of the art facility. It is in the middle of an aging suburb, and the mark of time has been unmistakably left within the walls of this old building.

This area in particular is particularly interesting. Here you see the main hallway leading in-between the empty, derelict patient rooms.

This floor has been abandoned since January of 2006. For nearly four years this floor has sat in pitch black silence. All of the boards in the patient rooms were marked January 2006 at the latest. For the longest time, only security officers have been on this floor. The prior security company that guarded this hospital before mine had an individual working for them who was actually living on this floor. He was busted coming out of the shower. That company was quickly dismissed and we took over.

As I shone my flashlight around this floor I found a calamity of clutter. Let me demonstrate what I mean...

This is actually a patient room. These neglected quarters have since become proverbial garbage cans for old equipment which is no longer useful, or obsolete. It is really a shame, because this floor is not the only one that is cluttered with unused equipment.

This pile of steel and plastic has not been disturbed in a very long time, and I could smell that "old" smell... you know the one where you walk in to an old basement.

Few will venture on to this floor because, as expected, there are stores of it being haunted.

Hospital beds and bedding lay forgotten in this room. It is one of the many rooms on this floor where patients have told nurses of experiences including one woman who claimed that someone... or something... lay in bed next to her and touched her back. She turned around to find nothing. This is topped off with several accounts of rocking chairs moving on their own.

I could definitely feel something on this floor with me, as if someone were walking right behind me in spite of the fact that I was utterly alone.

As an addendum to my prior posts, I would like to add this:

This hospital is so strikingly different from my last assignment. I am happy to be somewhere that has a little bit more history. This hospital was built in 1989 when I was but 6 years old. My prior assignment was built in 2003...

The atmosphere of this new assignment is one of familiarity. I can remember very vividly being taken here by my grandmother when I broke my arm, and also by my mother when my grandmother had emergency surgery on more than one occasion. The adjacent doctors office buildings hold memories for me too, including ones of going to the pharmacy at the bottom floor with my grandmother when she would buy her medicine along with a nice cold root beer for me.

My last assignment holds no memories for me whatsoever, aside from my supernatural experiences and experiences dealing with assholes, patient and staff alike. Newer is not always better as I have learned all to well in recent years, particularly when I return to a place I can remember being a large part of my childhood in a protectorate capacity. I feel like I'm giving back to the community that raised me. It is wonderful gratification... along with the pay of course :p

>>3580 >>3581 >>3582
THOSE are the reasons I say you need to get yourself a decent vidya camera with NV capabilities.

I think it's fucking epic that your new post actually holds memories for you, and I hope you have a better time there. I still laugh when I think of what you said on IRC last night about how there's "more opportunities to put foot to ass" with the place's reputation for getting more violent/unstable/generally screwballed patients.

Also, if I didn't want to risk you getting canned, I would honestly PAY you to spend the night on one of the abandoned floors, and keep a blog of all the creepy shit you see/hear/experience.

>>3585
You raise a good point, OP could start his own blog-page where he recounts his life or something, I know I would RSS that shit :3

Seriously addicted to this thread.

fucking signed. Do it present. blog this shit.

>>3583
>aside from my supernatural experiences

Did you ever go about putting any of them on /x/? If not, please do share!

>>3608

I did post a thread on /x/ a while back that touched the tip of the iceberg on the experiences I've had regarding the less than lively patrons of the hospital. In it I discussed seeing abnormal things, apparitions, and people who had recently died standing next to me in the elevator. I am certain beyond doubt that I will have more experiences at this new assignment as it is far older than my last post. Next time a beastie bugs me, /x/ will know.

>>3596

I would be very interested in doing this... However, as many of you know, I am not what you could call "excessively computer savvy." It took me a while to figure out IRC so I could talk to you fine folks, and I only too recently learned how to tripcode thanks to someone in IRC. If you could give me an idea of what I would need to do to start a blog, Kuro, I would very much appreciate it.

There are certain perks to being a security officer. One of these is that you have access to (mostly) anywhere you want to go in the hospital. Here is the view entering the long abandoned Intensive Care Unit. Just stepping in to this area is spooky enough, but something that I saw startled me like you wouldn't believe the first time I entered this room. See if you can pick it out.

At the end of the hallway leading back out to the surgical wing, you can see a pair of double doors. These doors are permanently sealed. No one in, no one out. I have to get in to this room using a somewhat complicated series of codes and keys, so they must really be hell bent on keeping people out of here for some reason. As expected I felt a presence with me in this room as well, but it was not quite as friendly a presence as I had felt at my prior assignment. I'll bet you that something bad went down in here a long time ago. I'll have to do some detective work to get to the bottom of it.

Here sits a long forgotten ICU room, stripped of all of it's equipment. Nothing in here but the empty shell of a room which once saved lives, and saw them end on a regular basis. The special thing about the Intensive Care Unit, is that more than half of the deaths in a hospital occur here. This is where the -really- sick people go, usually to die. However, a significant amount of lives are saved in this area as well. Therefore there would have to be a very diverse dichotomy of energies in this area.

It seems so peculiar to me that they would use this room, as well as the other floor I had mentioned for nothing but storage, when there has been a recent influx of new patients.

Here you can see random items and equipment scattered in this old ghost of an ICU. Items that were once used to save lives scattered, gathering dust. IV poles, beds, computer equipment and monitors, tables... A veritable medical salvage yard, however I'm told that employees refuse to enter this area.

Looking around all the abandoned areas in this hospital almost reminds me of that old video game Silent Hill. The first one. Sometimes I half expect the paint to start peeling off the walls and mutilated nurses with scalpuls chasing me.

Heh, how ridiculous.

>>3614

>>3485 here. I see her/him. Reminds me of what I saw, although they were fully clothed... >>Right after the tour guide had told us this was a storage floor and there was no-one on it, I walked past a room and saw out of the corner of my eye two beds with people lying on them. Freaky. They turned out to be mannequins lying on old beds, but I don't know why a hospital would have mannequins.

>>3615
What do the signs on the double doors say?

>>3619

The signs on the doors say "Do Not Push" as they are power doors. There was a push plate on the wall to the right that you could push, but now there is just a hole with a wire sticking out.

As for the mannequin, you're absolutely right. I thought it was a corpse at first... I shat bricks.

Here's a picture of it:

Keep posting OP. Loving the new stuff.

Dearest /regs/.

Today I underwent training in the use of the X26 Taser. This little device packs one hell of a wallop. Supported between two large security officers, the instructor attached two alligator clips to my shirt. One at the shoulder, the other at the waist on the opposite side. He told me to breathe in, and exhale.

What followed was 5 seconds of hell. The longest of my life. When you are being tazed, your entire body seizes, and you can feel the heat and the force of the 50,000 volts completely and totally rendering you helpless. The pain was excrutiating.

At the end, I dropped like a sack of potatoes... fortunately the two officers spotting me kept me on my feet, but after the taser was finished giving me my 5 second ride through hell I felt completely normal.

I like this taser... More so, after this experience I respect it, too. Feel free to ask me as many questions as you like.

Pic related: It's the X 26 Taser.

As I mentioned in my prior post, I had alligator clips attached to my clothing. The taser probes do NOT have to be in direct contact with skin in order to work. They need be simply two inches from skin in order to arc correctly.

We did test fire the taser today, and I kept one of my darts after breaking it off of the wire. This is what it looks like.

Fired from the cartridge using compressed nitrogen gas, two darts are fired at 160 feet per second. Using the barbed needle tip, they then lodge themselves in the flesh of the target and deliver their devastating electrical current.

This is the dart.

>>3635
...Ow.

Please, tell creepy stories.

Look... I found a large steel door with a lot of pipes running in to it. I haven't been in this part of the hospital before... Let's check it out!

The humming of machinery can be heard faintly as the key clicks and makes a metallic groan as it turns and the door creaks open....

A long.... long hallway greets me, piping running along the roof. It smells like oil in here... My Danner boots fall to the concrete floor making a dull thud as I slowly make my way down the tunnel, getting closer to the mechanized humming that lured me in to this small, creepy hallway.

I slide the key in to the lock on the door at the very end. It makes the same painful sounds as the last door, hinting that it hasn't been opened recently. I doubt it though, seeing how this is a tunnel to the hospital's physical plant. Much smaller than the physical plant than my last assignment, this runs backups for the whole hospital.

Behold, there are two of these behemoth Detroit Diesel generators. 16 cylinders... over one thousand horsepower... Good to keep the hospital up and running for (drum roll please) 24 hours!

(I guess they didn't plot out the fuel storage very well, huh...).

I turn to the back corner and spy another door. I tiptoe over to it, as the plant manager decided to spend the night in his office. (There's a fucking bed in that office for goodness sake...). Very carefully I insert the key in to the door. To my right on a shelf is a can of WD 40. I take it and spray the hinges so to silence them as I open the door. I smell... fresh air? To my left there is a garage type door, underneath which is a chain link gate. Through it I can see the hospital. I am across the street! The tunnel took me across the street from the hospital!

Strange, isn't it?

Anyway, I couldn't find a lightswitch... so I used my flashlight. I am 6'1", but these boilers dwarf me! They're at least 15 feet tall. Huge by my standards...

Anyway, better get out of here before that plant manager wakes up....

Stay tuned....

>>3664
Fuckin' creepy, man.

I can somehow see this hospital making a great setting for a scene in a zombie movie. Abandoned, darkened floors, supposedly haunted, damn creepy at night.

Don't s'pose I could include this in my Z-fic, could I?

>>3663
Detroit Diesel makes some fucking AMAZING engines. I had a Chevy truck with a 6.5L turbocharged Detroit Diesel, it only made 215hp, but with 440lb-ft of torque, it was the only 4wd truck I've had that could burnout at all four wheels.

Did you happen to see a model number? If so I can find the exact horsepower/torque specs.

>>3666

>Don't s'pose I could include this in my Z-fic, could I?

Be my guest.

Present, you are the best. This is by far one of the coolest threads iv seen in awhile.

Oh the disappointment.

I was told by someone that this hospital had a proper morgue floor, as I had referenced in a prior post.

When I opened the morgue door, I was met with this. It is no larger in height and width than your average refrigerator. It fits two bodies, and the trays pictured here are actually both affixed to a single cart. That means that if I have to go pick up a body, and there is already a body on here, that body goes for a little ride while I go collect the other unfortunate soul.

I am so very disappointed.

I decided tonight to take a swoozler through the hospital's OR's. I was blown away! The OR's at my last hospital don't even begin to compare to the one's here...

I ran in to a tech who was stocking a medicine cart, and we got to talking... he showed me this:

This is the stuff that allegedly killed Michael Jackson. Heh... I laughed a little, and then we got to talking about how MJ was cool back before he became a freak. I like MJ from the 70's and the 80's because back then at least he was a somewhat normal performer. After he turned the color of this medicine... well, the rest is history.

This stuff will knock you out faster than you can say candleja-

Pictured here is a typical supply cabinet for the OR's. This is where you can find things like needles, syringes, scalpls, bonesaws, and other sterile equipment. I opened up the cabinet and saw a lot of things that I just couldn't identify... More and more I am convinced that medical technology must be alien in origin... The things they do are just so amazing...

I mentioned once that this hospital held many memories for me. The most significant of which was when my grandma had to come in here for emergency surgery. I was asleep in my bed at the age of 9 or 10 when my mother came in to my room and woke me up. She wrapped me up in my blanket and I followed her to the car. We coursed down the dark streets and drove in to the ER area. I was confused, but then my grandma was gone... and I asked my mom where she went. That's when I found out she was having surgery.

Perhaps she had it in this very room those 17 years ago....

Here's a shot of the OR from the corner of the room. The equipment here just crowds this room beyond belief. I had a hard time getting around in here, particularly close to the bed. The amount of computer equipment in here not only impresses me, but it also brings me to a somewhat sad conclusion.

Let's face it, we owe our lives to computers... These machines once thought to be so strange and innovative are now just a normal part of our everyday lives... We just accept it.

I wonder what rooms like this will look like in 10 years.

I was joking around with that tech that showed me the medicine vial.

"Hey, I wonder if this is the computer they use to look up how to do the surgery they're doing on youtube?"

He laughed, but then told me something scary....

"It wouldn't be the first time."

A patient is rushed to the hospital via flight for life. He has been in a severe car accident, and has shrapnel in his body which is causing his arteries to rupture. Time is of the essence. A team of white coated technicians and doctors descend upon the helipad and rush the patient on a stretcher post haste to the Trauma room OR.

This is the trauma room OR. This is where they have served patients from the aforementioned scenario to bullet wounds to cancer patients. There was a heavy air in this room. Not because of a haunt, I don't believe, but because of the raw stress that has lingered in this room for going on 20 years.

I stood in awe.

>>3783

Cool stuff man, thanks for taking the time to take the pics and upload/explain it. Really interesting.

Hey ask some of the people there how to fix the health care problems and let us know what they say (if it wouldn't somehow be inappropriate for you to ask). They probably know exactly what's wrong and how to fix it in 5 minutes.

>>3784

You know, I actually had a conversation about the current Obamakare versus Privatization deal, and the amount of medical staff who are against the idea of government health care is significant, far outnumbering those for it. There is one individual with whom I have spoken in particular. She was a nurse back at my old assignment who was from Vancouver. She told me that the health care system here was much better because of the fact that the amount of people lined up waiting for procedures back in Canada was mind boggling. She also informed me that the survival rates for diseases in Canada were much lower than the survival rates for them here in the US. I know that this is all part of the typical rhetoric for the social versus private debate... but again, the amount of people against the government takeover of healthcare at both hospitals is quite astonishing.

As for asking how one might go about fixing the current system, I've yet to ask that. I just might do that tonight.

>>3787

I'd appreciate it if you'd ask. It might be that it's already about as good as it's going to get... though I would be curious as to what the staff and doctors' general consensus is on insurance companies.

If anybody would know what to do, I'd suspect it'd be people actually living and working in it everyday, and Congress and CNN et.al. don't seem to be asking them...

>>3787

of course medical people are against public health care. If the government was allowed to dictate how much medical treatment/procedures cost (which they would under nationalized health care) doctors wouldn't make $500,000 a year.

>>3790

Well I asked some people at the hospital (mostly nurses, since doctors don't work that late typically, and if they do they're too busy because they're overworked as it is) about the Obama plan, and their responses coroborate what I mentioned in my prior post. Some questioned whether or not the system would be able to handle the immense influx of new patients... Some told me that they doctors they knew would shut down their practices for various reasons. Others told me that the lengths of time required to wait for procedures would be unreasonably long, and there were those who said that people would become cost items in a government spending bill rather than human beings with rights.

>>3800

As a side note, I would really rather not see this thread turn in to a pro vs against obamacare thread... If you wish to debate this issue, please take it to /pol/. This is not the purpose of this thread.

>>3801

Thanks! Yeah, more pics and stories.

>>3801
>and there were those who said that people would become cost items in a government spending bill rather than human beings with rights.
The right to no health care if they are poor? Or the right to preferential treatment if they donate to the hospital?
Sorry, just throwing fuel on the fire here.

(USER WAS OXYCLEANED FOR THIS POST )

>>3803

Please read: >>3801 - the latter part.

God damn it.

Anyway, back on topic here...

Last night I had two interesting incidents. We had to watch a patient who was intoxicated. Now this wasn't your average drunk passed out patient. This individual came in to the ER in a stretcher kicking and screaming. We quickly restrained him with full leather straps and cuffs. It was at this point that he started spitting, and screaming / yelling in a semi demonic voice. It wasnt until he decided to announce "I AM THE HIGHLANDER!!!!"

That the tension broke and everyone involved was doing their best to choke back the laughter...

About 6 hours later, I was called up to take a body down to the morgue. This individual was merely 56 years old... Part of me wanted to unzip the bag to see what she looked like, but I decided not to and asked a nurse to help me transfer the body from the bed to the carrier stretcher. After the nurse arrived, he and I pulled the body off of the bed. It was at that time I noticed an enormous pool of blood where the head had been. He told me not to worry about it, because this patient had her eyes harvested.

They took her eyes for organ donation!

Sure makes me glad I didn't take a peek at her face!

>>3809
wow , good choice you didnt , i bet it is one of the worst things you could see ... also awesome thead , u bring life into 99 chan :D and , what about the video :3

>>3809

You're a security guard and you're hauling bodies around?

>>3834
Please see >>2405 and then >>2409.

Hoome, hoooome on the raaange... Or rather, the hospital.

We have coyotes... Lots of coyotes. The other night I spotted about ten of them in the parking lot. They like to chase / eat the rabbits that live at the hospital. They're very brave too, and often end up next to the entrances to the doctors offices and the hospital main entrance.

That night, where I saw the coyotes by the main entrances I also spotted a visitor who had lost her way and ended up there ten minutes later. I'm not really supposed to, but I gave her a ride back to the ER, lest she be attacked by our canine visitors.

So I was in the ER, and I was watching a whiny emo cutter chick, and I look to my right and am blasted by the past!

This EKG machine is probably as old as the hospital itself... how can I tell? I bet you can tell too! I haven't seen a disk drive like that since... well, since the 1990's.

I laughed a little inside. Cutting edge medical technology.... 1990's throwback.

It's perfect!

Our hospital has a clutter problem...

This is one of many back hallways and elevator stops that is just filled with unused equipment and beds. It's a conundrum to me how the medical system can claim to be so deep in trouble and so underfunded when they can afford to just stop using this gear.

Good ole' lack of accountability is what I'd call it... wouldn't you?

>>3852
Oh man. Clutter is the bane of every hospital. My mom works in the basement of one and when I was a kid and had to wait for her I would go and inspect the other rooms. Pretty scary to walk down endless halls with both walls obscured by tons of boxes. It's funny what you can find in basements (mostly weird machines for me). Therefore I would ask for a more in-depth search of the lower levels... Do you take requests?

>>3857

I certainly do take requests. I am off for the next 2 days, but when I go back I will try to find what you are looking for... What can I do for ya?

>>3861
The most cluttered hall of them all? Find it and document it for future generations. Or you could go to the dry-cleaners or whatever it's called where hospitals wash their sheets with super duper hygienic methods like bleach and heat.

>>3877

Our hospital uses a coop laundry which is offsite, so unfortunately I can't show laundry facilities... I don't know where they are! :p

However, finding the most cluttered hallway ever shouldn't prove to be very difficult... This hospital is full of them!

>>1581

you know, I was watching house s1e2 earlier today and that totally looks like a skullbore they used.

Also, this thread is great.

>>1712

Here is that pipe filled basement you requested. Since this hospital is much older, it has a much more archaic plumbing system. An old pump kept clicking on and off... and sometimes it made me jump because this room freaks me out for some reason.

These pipes run the hospital's water, and some of it's medical gases. This is the room that this hallway (>>3662) leads to from the power plant. It's a creepy end to a creepy path.

In the same room is the fire standpipe system and firefighting system pumps. This fire pump is completely original and unchanged (except for mandated maintenance items like gaskets and gauges). It's astonishing to me how the firefighting system at this facility differs so radically from the one at my old assignment. The difference is like night and day.

The pipes on this system are also very hot. I touched one and it nearly burned me. Fortunately I have good reflexes.

>>3916
I like how the two white cloths are just hanging there. I wonder what they are for?

Awrighty, who wants to get strapped down?

These are the leather restraints we use on patients like the Highlander. Lol.

This is 100% real naugahyde leather and it is tensile up to 500 pounds. These armbands can adjust to fit wrists as small as meowphines, or as buff as our fighter friend kyduh. In any case, once you've got these on, you're not going anywhere.

Unless of course you have a paper clip. Then you can easily pick the locks. I tried it myself.

Great security, hospital folks.

>>3923
Uuhhhh, just for reference, I'm 6'3" and 175 lbs. How about we use ILM as a reference, he's buff. Yeah. ILM.
>>3634
I want this.

>>3923 but where would you get a paperclip in a hospital? That's just silly.

...yeah, no. That's kind of worrisome. I like the ones my dad's old hospital had, which were just old-fashioned buckles with extra pins.

This hospital is a computer nerd's wet dream. (Easy there, Fubar...) There is so much abandoned and unused computer equipment here that if someone were to come in and somehow seize possession of all of it they could set up their own computer business.

I bet if you took all this shit along with the server motors you could probably make one bad ass robot. Particularly if you included some of the surgical laser systems in it.

I'll say no more.

>>3877

Here is some more hospital clutter. This is in the recovery room after surgery. This area is full of chairs with wheels and without them strewn recklessly. This is supposed to house beds, but it clearly does not...

>>3852

As an update to this post, this same hallway is even more cluttered now. It's like there is no end to the shit people just decide to stop using one day. I can see this place just absolutely filling up with clutter and being shut down by the fire marshal... These areas just get more and more shit put in 'em each time I walk by, it's ridiculous.

Normally, Id been all over this kind of this (I find surgical tools slightly erotic) how ever this thread disappoints....

>>3942
'EY FUCK YOU, MANG!

If you want the shit, just request it. I'm sure Present, or any of the other people here that work in a hospital would be happy to provide.

>>3942

I am more than certain that I can say with a high degree of correctness that you are alone in that sentiment.

Agh, Present I never got to tell you about my nurse shadowing in the surgery unit. I got to watch people get cut up, fiddled with and then sewn back up again. /cute/ dream to be sure.

Anyway, it'd be awesome if you found more surgery stuff, especially those ribcage splitters....

How big is the hospital? Since it must be huge for all the clutter and empty areas.

>>3923

I want these :3

Took a little walk outside this morning around 06:30, and decided to stop by the physical plant yet again, since they seem to have the most interesting stuff. I walked through it and through a little door at the back of the boiler room.

Before me stood what is perhaps the largest air conditioning condenser I have ever seen. It is at least 40 feet tall, with equal width and height... almost like an enormous cube. Even better, there was a ladder on the back of it. Since it didn't seem to be running just now, I decided I'd go for a climb.

Once I reached the top there was a plethora of hatches that one can open up to go inside the condenser. Unfortunately I got a call from my dispatch and had to leave, but I didn't before snapping this picture of the fan on top.

The blades of this fan are (I'm guessing) each about 6 feet long, which is just about my height. I can't imagine the kind of air this fan pulls in... It's probably mind boggling. Anyway, I had to go get a combative patient under control, so off I went.

>>3991
That thing must really suck.

>>3952

It's not enormous... but it's not small either. I can't guesstimate square footage or anything... my last assignment was about the same size.

>>3992

Oh u.

Now, I have seen some strange things in the hospital... but I can find no rational explanation for this...

This room has a huge stack of army cots, and I don't know why. Neither do my superiors. It makes me wonder if the healthcare community is expecting a huge clusterfuck of people and fears that they do not have the beds to cover it. I'll have to ask my bud at my old facility if they have them too.

Near the end of my shift, when the sun is out I like to go up to one of the observation decks and just look at the mountains. It's sort of a way for me to get myself collected and recomposed after a long, often boring night. I look out over this landscape and think to myself about how much it's changed since I was a kid. There was about half of the shit you see here back then. The houses to the right weren't there... and the shopping center to the left was about 3/4 as big.

Time changes everything, but I can't change time.

>>4016
Damn, man. Only reason I can think of for why they'd have those is either for people to sleep on if they decide to spend the night with family members, or if they decide to turn the hospital into a fortress come Z-day.

Also, if they ever get rid of them, mail me one, k?

>>4017
*begins singing*
"Memories like a coat so warm
A cold wind can't get through
Lookin' at me now you might not know it
But I've had my moments."

For some reason, that song started playing in my head when I saw that picture. Moments, by Emerson Drive. Download it sometime, it's a great song, with powerful lyrics.

Up and up and up they go, where they stop... the top!

This is the staircase that allows access to the roof. I remember coming to these stairs as a kid, and I would put my head right in the clear area in the middle and spit, and watch it fall alllllll the way down to the bottom, with a satisfying splat. I don't do that anymore (much) but this view makes me feel 12 again.

Down the catwalk to my right is the doorway to the rooftop HVAC/utility room and the roof! Let's go!

Hence the file name, this rooftop hvac area is a maze of steel piping, aluminum hvac ducts, and various pumps and circuitboards that look like they came from the movie Tron. (Appropriate since this place was built in the 1980's). The clicking and whirring of servo motors and other electric motors fill the air and you feel like you're in that scene from the Terminator 2 movie where they're in the steel plant. (Without the steel catwalks and insane killer machines).

You'll notice a big difference here between these elevator motors and the ones at my much newer, old assignment.

Seen here >>1616.

This one looks like the electric motors I used to screw around with as a kid, but these are prettier 'cause they're huge and they're blue. I wonder if these are the original motors? It looks like they very well could be. I can't imagine they'd want to shut down the elevator system at the hospital.

I thought this was kind of cool. They look like servers, and I imagine they are, but each one holds a card in it marked with a certain channel for the hospital's satellite TV system. You have all your normal channels... ESPN, HGTV, other satellite channels, and unfortunately no showtime... :(

There was a "test" tv next to it, so I watched it for a bit... then I headed over to the roof door.

The site code is marked out for HIPAA reasons, but this is the sign that greeted me when I arrived at the roof door. Turns out my radio won't work out here... but that's ok, I'll risk missing a call for you guys, since I love y'all so much :p

The key slid in to the lock and creaked ever so loudly as the old steel door scraped open. A gust of cold air overcame me, because it's about 30 - 35 degrees fahrenheit at night right now. The view was great!

This is the view from the roof of my hometown at night. I've never had such a good panoramic view of my town, not since I was a kid... but this sort of shot me back to 1996 when the town started to grow. There are 2 new developments near my area now, mostly to accommodate the Kalifornian Capitalist Refugees, if you will... There is a ladder to my right here that takes me up to the tip top of the roof, but since It's so cold and I've been out of radio range for too long I'm going to go back inside. However I do promise to get you all a shot or two of the very tip top soon.

Stay Tuned!

My dearest /regs/.

This will make the 300th post in a thread I doubted would garner much attention. Over time, it seems that this thread has captured the interest of many, and I would like to express my utmost gratitude to the 99chan community for giving me the inspiration to keep this thread alive, and also to thank lolbifrons personally for seeing enough potential in this thread to make it a sticky at the top of arguably the best board on the site!

So it pleases me to say: 300th!!

Thanks again!

Well, this thread would be good if OP wasn't such a pretentious asshat

How you talk....... it just makes me cringe..

>>4132
........

Just so you know, this "pretentious asshat" isn't afraid to bring the hammer down on you. I'd watch what you say around him. In my experience, pissing off a mod isn't exactly the smartest thing to do.

Seriously, what's so bad about how he talks? All he does is describe the what he sees on the job and whatever emotions he feels. Anyone with a working brain would expect him to act a little pretentious, especially in his own fucking thread, on a board that he mods.

Also, I'm gonna laugh if he bans you for that post.

Present, I enjoy your posts and the way you write them. Don't stop, or change your style.

>>4135

I'm not going to ban that poster for two reasons.

One, I believe that he is guilty of first degree faggotry with intent to woozler, and actually testing me to see if I will ban him, and second I believe in free speech. If he doesn't like the way I post, that's fine. It's not going to make me stop though.

Took a walk inbetween the hospital and Dr. office buildings tonight. They put in the most adorable little place for the kids to come play while they're waiting for family. I wish the sun was still out so I could have gotten a better view of this area, because it's really kind of neat. It's even got this sandbox / feng shui garden.

Idk what the heck a little kid would do with a feng shui garden... but hey, kids are getting smarter these days.

Here's the sandbox. It's kind of cool really... it's brand new too. Back when I was a kid this area was all grass, completely unused and undeveloped. I like how this place has grown so much, too... It has seen a lot of growth and success. I like that.

A lot of employees come out to this area at night to smoke. Smoking is not allowed at the hospital and I'm supposed to report people I catch smoking, but that's a stupid fucking rule and I smoke too, so I'm not going to narc on them. (I smoke, but I don't do it on property...).

I haven't left any calling cards around the new place, like I did back when I took this photo: >>2265. Thought this would be a good place to leave the board name :3

I'm still trying to locate some rib spreaders, Pomme... don't think I've forgotten about ya ;)

Anyway, it's time to go do some other security stuff, so I'm gonna have to get going for now. See you around.

If you find some old x-ray films in a trash or something similar, would you might taking a few and sending them to me? I'll pay for shipping :3

>>4171

My dear Kallisto,

Unfortunately those items are protected under HIPAA, and are destroyed after examination by doctors. Even if I was to find one, it would be shredded in to a million pieces before I even got close to it.

Sorry :p

>>4171
I think I might have some of my old ones laying around. Not entirely sure, but if I do, I'll let ya know.

Also, if anyone here has seen the movie Awake, I believe there's a scene featuring Pomme's elusive rib spreaders. If I recall right, it's when they're opening the guy up to get to his heart and perform the transplant.

>>4173

I was talking to a tech about open heart surgery, and he told me that's pretty typical. You're right.

This is where everybody eats in the hospital. Well, where they get their food for eating... This kitchen is quite large, about the size of your average corner grocery store. Everything is done on a grand scale, too. The hure mixers make hundreds of gallons of dough for bread, and they also use them for things like fries, mashed potatoes, and soups.

This kitchen is done almost entirely in stainless steel because it is easier to keep clean and free of infection.

As a regular user of /zom/ I thought to myself: "This may or may not be a good destination on z day... I mean look at all the food "locked" behind this easily defeatable gate! Bread, vegetables and fruits, dried meats and the like... The only problem is that on z day all the infected will be at the hospital... so if I decide to head here for sustenance I better be loaded for bear... or zeds...

Let's not forget, Taters are always related :3

Loving this thread, if you happen to come apon any hip replacements on your travels could you take some snaps? Much appritiated.

Last night was my toughest night yet. Out of respect for the family I took no photographs, but I was called to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to "pick up a valuable item." When I arrived the atmosphere was surreal.

Family was embracing each other, a woman in a patients gown sat and stared in to space, devastated. The item I had to pick up was a small, cardboard box in which was a one month old baby boy.

He died. Internal hemorrhaging. I felt so bad for the family... but I kept a stiff upper lip as I expressed my sympathy for the family and took the little box to the morgue. I then proceeded to go outside somewhere alone and cry.

>>4195
.................. Jesus. So much for "Only the good die young", man.
*salutes* Good job, though. If I had been in your position, there is no doubt in my mind that I would've started crying at the sight. To have someone so young die that painfully, just, Goddamn. Words can't describe how depressing that would be.

>>4196

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about it is that another officer had to get the unfortunate little one back out of the morgue and bring it back up to the NICU. Why? The family wanted to spend some time with the baby's body, and they even hired a company called "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep." This company photographs deceased children regularly. I can understand wanting this because this way you can hold on to that last moment... but to me it seems quite macabre, and even sick. Remembering the death of my newborn would be the last thing I ever wanted. They will be taking a photo of the poor baby boy laying next to his surviving sister, and photos of the family holding the corpse.

I'm glad I won't be on duty for that one.

>>4201 People deal with their grief in some pretty fucked-up ways.

>>4201
If you think that's sick, you haven't seen much. When something similar to this happened at the hospital my mom works at, the family opted to have the corpse put in a huge jar of formaldehyde and placed on the mantle above their fireplace. Others I've heard about have gone the cryogenics route, but the most popular option seems to be cremation, then storing the ashes in a handmade urn.

-shrug-

IMO, photographing the corpse is kinda cool, actually. Holding it and setting it next to the surviving sister, on the other hand, isn't.

>>4201
After reading the NILMDTS site, it kinda seems cute that they do this. It's a volunteer network of over 7,000 photographers who at your request will photograph the recently deceased baby to cherish it forever.

http://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/about_us/

Although, if you're on a weak stomach (as I currently am) I do advise not going to the "Stories" page... dead babies. I think there goes my dinner...

You know what? I actually found the whole concept quite touching and appropriate. More so than putting makeup and nice clothes on a corpse days later so that it can be put on display.

I went to a funeral today for a woman who was 97 years old and like a grandmother to me. She died from infection after a surgery, but if she hadn't needed the surgery (not sure why) she probably could have hit 100 easily. The casket was open, and the funeral home had done a pretty good job at making her look like she was just sleeping. A little too pink, maybe. Funny stories were told, and I learned more about her life through that and looking at the picture albums scattered around.

The point is, most people are not used to seeing death up close and personal anymore. We don't sit around someone's deathbed for days until they expire anymore, nor do we wash their body and prepare it for burial the next day. People die more often in hospitals or nursing homes rather than at home, and we pay trained professionals to refrigerate and decorate their bodies until far-flung family and friends can make it for the funeral.

But there's nothing inherently wrong in touching a dead body. I used to have a phobia of that, in fact. The minute a pet or animal died, I couldn't touch it. High school dissections were performed with gloves and I only used the instruments to touch whatever we were dissecting. Later on, I realised that this was indeed a phobia, and I didn't know why. Nicely packaged meat from the supermarket is part of a dead body, and usually a few days old to boot. What differentiates that substantially from a recently deceased person? So I got over my phobia, mostly.

I think perhaps the negative reactions to the photography of deceased infants is due in part to its unfamiliarity. This is not uncommon, and I'm not telling you to change your mind. But personally, I think that if I had a baby that died, I would probably want photographs and some time to hold it and say goodbye.

Securi-kun... <3

I got this thing outside my ribs. It's about the size of a lighter, and it's been in me for the guts of two years now. I'm getting it out in another four or so months. DAT BULGE.

Present, you rock stadiums. I'd like to point out how epic threads seem to follow you around, such as the "Sgt. Awesome saves kitties" thread. Keep up the great work, I'm hooked!

The abandoned floor just keeps getting more junk put in it. This picture was actually taken in the old Nurse's station. It seems they literally have everything in here, INCLUDING the kitchen sink! (lol lol...)

Seriously though, the rate this place is filling up, it'll look like a junkyard in no time. To the right of these items are a bunch of thermostat panels with stenciling on them that looks like they were printed in the 1950's... Leads me to believe that a lot of this stuff here in the hospital just might be hand me downs from other facilities... I wonder if there's any history of new facilities being built with parts from old ones....

Either a theater exploded in here, or the management is made of techies from drama and comedy troupes. The last time I saw lighting like this I... well... I was in drama club as a techie... :p

Running crew was fun, but this is more fun, finding junk from a bygone era, and wondering where it was before... what it was doing there, and who put it there. So much interaction with people and it's all piled up in a room here on this abandoned floor.

I like it up here, There's peace and quiet, spirits to commune with, and windows that overlook the OR where I can watch surgeries being performed. I see some interesting things... They keep looking at the clock for some reason.

It turns out the hospital chaplain sometimes sleeps on this floor too... I kept seeing signs on a door in the back of this floor that say "chaplains office," but the chaplains office on the main floor... One night I heard the door open, so I undid the snap on my taser and proceeded to check out the scene. Turns out the chaplain is actually someone I knew 10 years ago.

What a small world, huh?

>>4225
Hate to break it to ya, but I think that sink is actually from an old bathroom. But still, major laughs all around.

I don't know if new hospitals have been built using things from old ones, but I know that the hospital my mom works at was originally built back in the 1940s or 1950s, and if you know what to look for, you can easily spot the places where they've added on over the years. Next time we're over there I'll see if I can get pictures of the place so you can see what I mean.

Also, did you jump a little when you heard the door to the chaplains office open? I know I probably would've been scared pretty good. And it must've been cool seeing him again after so long, even if he was staring down the business end of an X26 taser at the time.

>>They keep looking at the clock for some reason.

I think it's because timing is so important during surgery. Usually, they chart out what they need to do and how long everything will take. Running behind schedule means that the patient endures longer anesthesia (longer recovery time), and that other surgeries in the lineup are delayed.

Also, did the chaplain jump when you snuck up on him with a taser? I know I probably would...

>>4226
As a technical director, I can safely say that that is both awesome and entirely accurate. Those look suspiciously like Altman single-focus strip lights, but I can't really tell from this distance. On the left, on top of those boxes, are those color gel cases? What possible use for those could a hospital have?

>>4227
>>4228

I didn't actually -draw- the taser, lol. It would have been funny if I did tho... I just loosened the snap on it so I could draw it faster if I needed to.

>>4230
......... Wat? Common sense dictates that you go in with your weapon drawn and ready for use, especially if you don't know who or what you'll be coming up against.

But then, maybe that's just me.