Check out this hot coffee warning sign to try and prevent injuries in the hospital.It tells you how to use the coffee machine. In any normal country with a sane legal system you pour hot coffee, you risk burning yourself. Tough luck. Not in America though. Where you pour hot coffee and burn yourself. Becoming a millionaire at the same time.
Funny thing though. As I stood there to grab a picture, three dudes walked up. One started to pour the coffee, while holding the cup (of course he didn't read the directions). He than says
Huh, the spigot must be broken, 'cause it doesn't want to turn it self off. I almost burned myself.
It's a good thing we had this sign here to protect the hospital!
Huh, the spigot must be broken, 'cause it doesn't want to turn it self off. I almost burned myself.
It's a good thing we had this sign here to protect the hospital!
Totally with you. Can't believe how often I'm really just working for phantom, unnamed lawyers.
ReplyDeleteThe irony? None of that crap will protect anyone from a lawsuit. None of it helps. We're increasing costs and not protecting anyone from anything.
Skeptical lawyers can poke holes in anything patient care activity we do.
I'm nearly certain that we have an identical sign on our coffee dispensers. I'm surprised the company that makes those coffee machines hasn't been sued out of existence.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if we just wore a big sign around our necks, like sandwich people we'd have less problems.
ReplyDelete"Warning: We may harm or kill you. Entrust with responsibility of your care carefully."
It's sad to think that folks you trust your life with can't even operate a coffee machine without detailed instructions.
ReplyDeleteYeah, gingerb, it's sad. Have a good cry.
ReplyDeleteJohn Edwards, almost our VP, made his many $$$$ from suing OB/GYNs with what later turned out to be questionable data.
ReplyDeleteEdwards is worth in the hundreds of millions of $$$$. Did he make this all as a trial attorney suing docs?
Happy H., do you get $400 haircuts?
And the concept of personal responsibility is going the way of the dodo. I guess I'll go drink a few beers, then use the lawnmower to trim the hedge...
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