How To Dispose of Medical Waste? Take It Home and Frame It! (Picture)
I'm not sure what to think of this. A reader sent me a picture of their professionally framed gallbladder they saved after having it surgically removed for cholelithiasis. As far as I'm concerned, it's medical waste. Heck, it's wrapped in plastic and even has a biohazard danger sticker attached to it! We can't eat or drink at the nurses station, but patients can take their formaldehyde infested cancer causing medical waste home with their discharge papers? It says, "CAUTION, CONTAINS FORMALDEHYDE". That looks like a warning to me! I'm just waiting for the day a hospital gets sued for giving a patient cancer in the name of patient satisfaction. Oh, wait, we do that everyday with our patient satisfaction scans.
If you ask me, this guy must have been stoned when he did this. Or maybe he just bagged his common sense when he decided to hang toxic medical waste as a show piece in his living room. Why not just let the hospital dispose of it like everyone else? Let's think about the possibilities, shall we? Perhaps he's part of a growing movement of environmentalists trying to reduce their carbon foot print by keeping their medical waste from ending up in the local landfill.
I don't know how common it is for people to request their own body parts or other waste after surgery. For some folks, saving their surgical waste might be a fetish. Remember, there are  ...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
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