gurney
a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.
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The hospital was in chaos and the wards were packed, with all 708 covid beds occupied—so 69-year-old Joseph Paul Alvares, a cancer survivor, had to lie on a gurney for nearly three days for a bed to become available.
What went so wrong with covid in India? Everything. | Sonia Faleiro | July 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewDiaz and Sanchez wheeled their patient toward the back entrance of the emergency department, where they joined a phalanx of other gurneys.
The Broken Front Line | by Ava Kofman, photography by Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks | April 7, 2021 | ProPublicaMembers of his crew, recently arrived from Mumbai, were maneuvering around vestigial baby cots and gurneys.
Netflix v Modi and the battle for Indian cinema’s soul | Konstantin Kakaes | March 24, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewWhen the family went into the hospital room, Young was lying on a gurney.
A Temp Worker Died on the Job After FedEx Didn’t Fix a Known Hazard. The Fine: $7,000. | by Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | December 23, 2020 | ProPublicaAt the company’s flagship Los Angeles hospital, persistent elevator breakdowns sometimes require emergency room nurses to wheel patients on gurneys across a public street as a security guard attempts to halt traffic.
Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances | by Peter Elkind with Doris Burke | September 30, 2020 | ProPublica
“He was trying to talk, ripping his head and shoulders off the gurney,” Fretland said.
Lifting the Curtain on Oklahoma's Botched Lethal Injection | Caitlin Dickson | August 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMyers and gurney felt such actions were a means to validate the report.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death | Patricia Pearson | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOften these people end up on a special kind of board with legs that fold out, a gurney.
What Did TJ Mean By “Pursuit of Happiness,” Anyway? | P. J. O’Rourke | June 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLockett began to convulse violently, his head and chest rising up off the gurney multiple times as he called out, “Oh, man.”
Lethal Injection Leads to the Most Botched Executions | Austin Sarat, Robert Henry Weaver, Heather Richard | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLess than 10 minutes later, the attendants wheeled out the gurney, which now bore a black body bag.
"She doesn't know anything you want to know," exclaimed Eliza gurney, coming into the room.
In the Onyx Lobby | Carolyn WellsMiss gurney was not a beautiful woman at best, and her rage transformed her into a veritable termagant.
In the Onyx Lobby | Carolyn WellsThere are no women sufficiently interested in his death to be suspected of it except Letitia and Eliza gurney.
In the Onyx Lobby | Carolyn WellsShe suppressed a shriek at the moment; but she could not tell Mr. gurney of it afterward, without tears.
Mr. gurney was very gentle; but, as he said, what could he suggest but indigestion, or some such cause of nervous disturbance?
British Dictionary definitions for gurney (1 of 2)
/ (ˈɡɜːnɪ) /
US a wheeled stretcher for transporting hospital patients
Origin of gurney
1British Dictionary definitions for Gurney (2 of 2)
/ (ˈɡɜːnɪ) /
Ivor (Bertie). 1890–1937, British poet and composer, noted esp for his songs and his poems of World War I
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