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Introducing a hospital where copper, brass, rivets and gears are everywhere. Clunking sounds and hissing noises coming from the vents, with occasional jets of steam. Nurses decked out in full Steampunk regalia, doctors appropriately dressed complete with top hats and round eye goggles. Operating rooms
that look like throwback evil scientist lairs. Full service kitchen features half-baked buns in the shape of broken gears.
Unless you want a longer stay, JUST SAY NO to the Steampunk Catheters.
(Can't shake the sensation that I'm forgetting something)
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Perhaps you are neglecting to think of the fact that a lot of
modern medical tech has no equivalent in the steam age.
Ultrasound and MRI scans, for example (while CT scans are
descendants of the first X-ray and "fluoroscope" machines,
which were actually dangerous because of the magnitudes
of X-ray radiation involved). Translating such modern
equipment to steampunk equivalents can't work very well if
there are no equivalents. |
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Just fix fake gears and pipework to the casing? Isn't that what steampunk is all about? |
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There's a shoe shop near me where they have a very steampunk-looking X-ray machine - all polished wood and brass - which was originally used to shine X-rays through children's feet so you could measure what size shoes they need (it's kept as a curiosity - they don't use the machine any more).
In this hospital the word "Röntgenstrahlen" should be used instead of X-rays, because it sounds better. |
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"Roentgensblaster" (give or take a few umlauts). "Brainsucker 9000" for the EEG machine. |
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This reminds me of a few nightmares I've had. Except that
there is no checking out in my dreams. Scary. Bun from me, a
whole one in fact. + |
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Needs a Gothic exterior and a huge lightning rod on the roof ... [+] |
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Lots of copper might not be the worst idea, harder to
keep polished than stainless, but inherently
antimicrobial. |
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Lots of exposed rivets and gears, with all the tiny nooks
and crannies, not so much. And they've already had to
ask doctors to stop wearing ties, because they're never
washed, how much worse is a top hat going to be (the
goggles could probably be made autoclavable). Hospital
acquired infections are already one of the leading causes
of illness in the country. |
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(And yes, I know I'm taking this way to seriously). |
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If you were that serious you would have included the second " o " in too. |
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Don't be deliberately obtuse, [normz]. You know he meant //taking this way to seriously// .i. using the indicated route towards a serious intent and/or action. |
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I'm attempting to do the "language defined by usage"
thing and eliminate the difference between "to" and
"too". This is largely because the difference is an
artificial one created arbitrarily in the late middle
ages (see the German "zu" for one word with the
same root covering both meanings). |
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(Also because which is which completely refuses to
stick in my head, but that's another story.) |
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