Hello everyone. I know this is an old thread, but hopefully someone here will be able to help me. I’m writing a novel and I’m stuck on the part where a patient dies in a surgery, and the body needs to be taken to the morgue. Who’s going to carry the body (elevator etc) down to the morgue? People working at the morgue, or the hospital nurse? Thank you in advance.
There is no such thing as "hospital nurse,” although perhaps you’re thinking of the nurses trained for surgery procedures, as opposed to calling Fred from maintenance. I doubt a nurse present during the surgery would be tasked, unless it’s a one-room hospital/mad-scientist lab.
And I was right.
It’s like in the movie Marathon Man. You just pick up the phone and call “Removals”.
(in reality, transportation of the corpus delicti to the morgue is accomplished by an orderly or someone working in a transport capacity. A nurse’s time is too valuable for this task).
This thread still offers one of the best combinations of username and thread title ever.
*also, unless we’re talking about the medical examiner’s office or a large teaching hospital, no one staffs the morgue.
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