Healthcare practitioners are as guilty as any of us when it comes to trying to “economize” by making a piece of equipment do something that, well, isn’t exactly what it’s designed to do.
In a clinical/medical setting, that would include trying to use an ordinary exam table as an impromptu procedural table!
MIDMARK offers this short video on how that can affect patient safety as well as comfort.
After all, how would you like to have your next filling replaced by a dentist who has you lying on an ordinary exam table?