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Ah, human ingenuity...

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Uff

@ElleGray my favourite was sitting in a big waiting room at a university hospital to get my tooth fixed and there was a sweets vending machine

@ElleGray [Searches Amazon for endoscopy equipment]

@ElleGray I had one of those used on me a couple of weeks ago…I wouldn’t have minded if I could have gotten some snacks out of it!

@ElleGray@mstdn.social Why not? That doesn't make any sense.

@ElleGray ick.

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the not letting them steal food part?

@ElleGray I'm a nurse that works in a major academic medical institution and I can tell you the prices are like an airport on steroids so someone using a 200K endoscope is not that far fetched

@ElleGray Medical staff shouldn 't have to eat junk; there should be a cart with tea & healthy snacks.

@ElleGray "Doesn't say anything about orthopaedics!! *Sound of power saw starting*

@ElleGray I feel like if I'm having a colonoscopy and they find a bag of Doritos up there they should be allowed to keep it

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Wait...endoscopes come with little grabby claws?

@ElleGray my appetite is lower now so i get it.

@ElleGray "a wild endoscope appears!"

@ElleGray What else could you use it for then?

@ElleGray no fun allowed :(

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I wonder if that gave anyone the idea to do so

Anyone ingenious enough to do this should be rewarded, not reprimanded IMO.

Anyway, better up a vending machine than up my arse.

Also, nothing in that cabinet even comes close to qualifying as "food", as far as I can see.

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I don't see the problem.

The endoscopy equipment is made to go up the chute to find a world of shitty junk food in any scenario.

Although perhaps this is bad because they've cut out the paying middleman, the patient?

(/s)

@ElleGray @inthehands I think people are mistaking this thoughtful suggestion for a prohibition.

@ElleGray But it's in Comic Sans!

@ElleGray they should install a claw machine without the claw on the side

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Oh, to be passed out slumped next to an empty vending machine on a crinkly bed of shining wrappers, a deeply satisfied lump of human jerky, cured from all the delicious salty snacks, endoscopy tools cradled like a baby in one shriveled arm.😊
I hope theft triples.

Also, something Quincy M.E. would do daily.👍

@ElleGray@mstdn.social damn I never thought about this but hmm this could actually work at my place

@ElleGray That they are not allowed to steal?

@ElleGray environmental storytelling

@ElleGray Judging by the brands & that the sign is in English, I'm guessing an Ontario hospital?

@ElleGray real crime: using comic sans.

...and management not just providing free snacks for employees.

@ElleGray The person that decided to post instructions on how to get free snacks here is probably very sweet.

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Man, what a pain in the ass.

@ElleGray Workers are fed from vending machines?

@ElleGray as long as they don't use the cheezies for the endoscopy, they're good

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Fine, I’ll just go back to my usual method of tipping the machine onto myself fatally for snacks.

@ElleGray Gotta get practice in wherever you can!

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@ElleGray I wonder if they can use it to retrieve their sense of humor!

@ElleGray well I wasn’t about to but now that you point it out I might try

@ElleGray use a coathanger like everyone else...

@ElleGray it's not stealing, it's a fun game where you learn usefull skills for difficult manual tasks like operating etc and because of the competition it engages people positively.

@ElleGray
*Dice Roll*
[1]
*Game Master* [1]
Failure. You'll be wondering all day whether it's better to use a new one and clean it after your theft for the next operation, or a "used" one that you try to clean perfectly to grab your snack.

@ElleGray One of the cheapest possible trainings for doctors available got cut.
#joke

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Well, in terms of motivation, it's not such a bad finger exercise to start with.

@ElleGray They’ll need to add “Dorito dust” to the standard testing panels for endoscopy tests.

@ElleGray So that’s why I could smell sour cream & chives at my colonoscopy