Distributions. 6/14/2005
The pace at work is getting faster. I was sorting out surgical instruments yesterday. At rough count, about 300,000 individual instruments. Contained in something like 160 huge boxes. I brought all the boxes up to C.S.S.D., because, one, there was air conditioning in the place, and two, I actually had space to work. We’ll be tearing open boxes sometime today and tomorrow, and I’ll be performing an inventory and tagging exercise.
One of the vendors was kind enough to give me a thick hardcover book, containing pictures and descriptions of just about every surgical tool ever invented. I was leafing through this book yesterday, and had a good laugh at some of the obsolete tools surgeons used from days before. Most of these instruments had been replaced by updated surgical procedures using different tools, and many procedures these days strive to minimise the invasiveness of the procedure on the human body. Unless you need to crack a chest, which is a different matter altogether.
And the one thing all these tools have in common? They’re damned expensive.
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- Author : thesnark
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