Yes
i used to work in a hospital - in procurement (buying whizzy scanners and all sorts).

The procurement team always got the best spot in the hospital, either by the incinerator, goods inwards or the morgue.

I always used to go get a bacon and stilton baguette at 10am and would wander to the ospital shop. I knew a lot of the porters and probably twice a week would be wandering back chatting then to one of them and as i went down the final corridor to my office i would notice that they had been pushing a trolley with a cadaver alongside my baguette.

After a while it becomes normal. I did always wonder if it was the stilton i could smell or something else...........
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Thu 28 Feb 2008, 11:13, 2 replies)

I worked for the NHS once...
And was told that when the porters are pushing the body trolleys around and they're rattling, they're empty.

However, if the trolley doesn't rattle, there's a corpse inside it.

I saw a lot of quiet trolleys.

Anyway, reminds me of that Billy Connolly story where his friend could be bothered to make more than one trip to the University Hospital with the cadavers, so he piled four on to one trolley, making a giant man, and causing a car accident!

Oh, and *click*, buy the way!
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 28 Feb 2008, 12:02, closed)

definitley true
silent trolleys do have a full payload. And those are the ones to avoid! Its like the dead are just sneaking up on you. For one more laugh.....
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Thu 28 Feb 2008, 12:27, closed)