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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Lung Display in Waiting Room
Message-ID: <447@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 12:06:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 12:06:32 1985
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In article <517@ttidcb.UUCP> speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) writes:
>... I suggested that a lung which had been removed from a
>patient by dried (run air to expand and dry it) and then displayed in
>a case in the waiting room.  I was told that would be beyond the bounds
>of good taste...

Spencer Gifts and other similar specialty shops offer a "lung ashtray,"
which is a plain ashtray with a clear hollow plastic model of a lung
suspended over it to catch the smoke and cloud up. A very graphic
deterrent to smokers (at least, to those who think). These should be
required in any doctor's or hospital's waiting room.

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