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From: "Stephen Hughes" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: Does the Royal Navy still have the lash?
> Shipmates,
>
> I am in a state of shock. This week's Hospital Doctor (22 Nov 01) shows
> a photo of a reserve naval officer using a thin bit of pink elastoplast
> to strap down a patient with cervical blocks and a collar.
at least he has got blocks!
>
> This practice is to be deprecated! I am sure we all agree that thin bits
> of micropore, elastoplast and sellotape are insufficient for the task.
> Surely thick sticky gooey elastoplast (the big white stuff) is what is
> needed?
>
i have to agree with you there ( or one of the great cure -alls of bodging
duct tape)
> Sadly, in my present post, thin bits of tape seem de rigeur.
>
> A secondary point is that if the press are to take pictures of us doing
> things, then we must be seen to be doing the right thing. This is in
> order to prevent being publicly keelhauled or made to walk the plank
> etc!
absolutely
> --
> Stephen Hughes SpR Anything & Everything, ( and Major RAMC(V))
Martyn Hodson
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Student Nurse Sheffield University
SJA Ambulance Attendant
pte. RAMC (V)
writing for myself, views expressed are entirely my own,
and may not reflect those of Sheffield University or St. John Ambulance ,
Nationally or locally
-Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side,
and it holds the universe together.
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