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
Finally, finally, finally, Mami takes away the bedpan.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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
Barraza has been known to empty bedpans when the housekeeper is too busy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
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
Toward the end of the day, more bedpans, the emptying of sputum mugs, the making of cocoa.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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