Random case

So the coroner's office has to store decedents for a period of time before and after the autopsy. Dead people with families who love them are in a big hurry: they've got funerals to be at, morticians to pick them up, families to call and ask that they be ready. People who are unidentified or. well, unpopular are lonely and bored and tend to stay in the fridge.

When things get busy, the fridge gets full, which means that in order to get your guy you have to move a whole bunch of other guys out of the way. Then you have to put them all back. And then you have to do it again at the end of the case.

So things have gotten busy and the fridge is getting pretty full and it's starting to take a while to find your guy. Now, the techs go get them for you, so you, as the doctor, get to hang around in the autopsy bays trying to figure out which bay is almost done getting used so you can be right there to claim it as soon as your guy shows up. (Okay, so they're not even open yet but over here they're starting to sew up the head!)

Today it took 45 minutes to get my guy and I had to kick a resident (who was still waiting, by the way-- never did find out when that case showed up) out of a bay.