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[–] MahLardy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Preach it. I looked after a megabeast in residency and it was so fat, the automatic scale built into the bed was giving us an "Err" message. My idiot preceptor wanted to have it weighed daily and was about to order that when I said "You can't do this to our nurses." The beast "reckon'd" it weighed 'round 300 lbs when the automatic scale topped out at 450, so we knew it had to be more than that for sure to make the scale conk out. Keep up the good work, those of us doctors with half a brain know how much it fucking sucks for you guys to look after these monstrosities.

Edit: the daily weighing would've involved the nurses getting this beast off the bed into some sort of chair and hauling it into the basement to use the industrial scale in our hospital physical plant, then hauling it back up. Being conservative and assuming the beast was "only" 500 lbs, that would've been 125 lbs per nurse for 4 staff - that's the equivalent of one nurse picking up an average-sized old lady patient on their own, which would never be acceptable.