Japanese medical practitioners' law requires that hospitals must preserve the records of treatment of all the patients for at least 5 years. The bigger the hospital is, the more enormous the store space needed. Some big hospitals adopt the microfilm system for the preservation of documents and films so that they can save space. However, my hospital doesn't. Besides, we preserve all the documents for more than 20 years. Some X-ray films stick to each other and some documents are moldy and smeary. It might be of no use to preserve them for such a long time, but anyway my boss didn't throw away the records for more than 20 years.
A few nurses and an X-ray technician went into one of the store rooms to clean up the room and allow fresh air into the room. The room air smelled stale. At that time they found a bat hunched over on the floor. He or she didn't move a bit. They took the bat back to the nursing station and looked after it. They were afraid that the bat was suffering from dehydration or hypoglycemia and fed the bat with a 10% glucose fluid from a dropper.
A day later the bat seemed to have recovered and began to fly in the room and was released outside at midnight. The nurses were great!
(Vocabulary)
get moldy カビが生える
smeary 汚れた, しみの付いた; しみのような
stale (食べ物などが) 古くなった, (パン，ケーキなどが) 固くなった; (空気などが) よどんだ, (煙・息などが) いやなにおいのする
stale bread 固くなったパン
hunch over うずくまる
dropper スポイト (目薬・芳香油などの) 滴びん, 点滴器
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