Mary Roach Quote

Making matters riskier: bed pans! The notorious frequency of sudden and unexpected deaths of patients while using bed pans in hospitals has been commented upon for many years, wrote the Cincinnati doctors. Notorious enough for a term to be coined: bed pan death. Lying flat is as counterproductive a posture as squatting is productive. Squatting passively increases the pressure on the rectum. It does the pushing for you. It

Mary Roach

Making matters riskier: bed pans! The notorious frequency of sudden and unexpected deaths of patients while using bed pans in hospitals has been commented upon for many years, wrote the Cincinnati doctors. Notorious enough for a term to be coined: bed pan death. Lying flat is as counterproductive a posture as squatting is productive. Squatting passively increases the pressure on the rectum. It does the pushing for you. It

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About Mary Roach

Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published seven New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021).