Word: bedpan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nurses were ministering an gels, Hodgins laments the modern hospital's chronic shortage of hands. "In the old days," he says, "a patient put on his light to indicate he needed something, and a floor nurse would respond to discover whether this something was extreme unction or a bedpan...
...incident sets a standard that the rest of this bedpan farce from Britain rarely tries to rise above. The picture begins with a pubic shave, continues with a ceremony involving a suppository, settles down to some steady vomiting, wakes up with a scene full of toilet-paper streamers...