Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cylixd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!akgub!cylixd!dave 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 Article-I.D.: cylixd.447 Posted: Wed Nov 6 12:06:32 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:49:00 EST References: <1997@aecom.UUCP> <517@ttidcb.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) Distribution: na Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN Lines: 18 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Kirby ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave) (The views expressed herein are the exclusive property of Dave Kirby. Any person, living or dead, found with the same or similar opinions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of law.)