I got in a really interesting phone conversation with a young woman last night.

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1. Things have changed so much.

When I started in 1986 at the large teaching hospital from which I retired we didn't have wall suction. We had Gomco suction machines which were about the size of a coffee table. On the trauma ward our four bed rooms often had five patients. Most patients had an ng tube and at least one chest tube, each to suction. The first five minutes of a code was just getting everything out of the way.