bedpan
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She reserved her deepest attention for the orderlies who came in to change her bedpan and her sheets.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2023
Nursing notes show that Burrell was placed on a bedpan.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2022
But after one of my colleagues said it looked like a bedpan, I just couldn’t unsee the resemblance.
From The Verge ● May 28, 2022
Would people drink apple juice if it was served in a brand-new bedpan?
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
What I did not miss that morning was emptying the bedpan, which had been one of my regular chores.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
Even as the labor market has softened, healthcare jobs have stayed plentiful: People spend on healthcare in good times and bad, and thus far, the ability to change bedpans and insert IVs hasn’t been automated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Her Little Sisters of the Sick Poor are prime examples, as the name suggests: They spoon-feed the toothless, comfort the grieving, scrub floors, clean wounds, change diapers, empty bedpans.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
Their colleague Norman Heatley rigged up a crazy-looking Heath Robinson system involving milk churns, baths, ceramic bedpans commissioned from a local pottery company, rubber tubes, drinks bottles and a doorbell.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2017
I was the lowest form of nurse, taking the bedpans, and I met a kind of different person than I had before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2016
“I was there, cleaning out the bedpans on that detention from Snape, remember?”
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
