Industrial Hospital Espionage

Wednesday, as I told before, my boss, our department doctor, two fellow operating theatre nurses and me, went to a presentation at Medtronic in Brussel. Our doctor (at the left in the pic) stole his wife's mono volume car and stuffed the five of us in it. Really cool car, with a GPS build in the dashboard and lots of space. I warned my boss (on the right in pic) that I would take my digi camera with me, so he had to be good or I would show the other nurses at home afterwards.
We arrived on time in Brussel to start at the reception with bubbly and nibbles. Fortunately they did have some raw vegetables on a plate, so my dieting wasn't interrupted.
In a corner of the reception room there was a glass display cupboard, showing all the medical products that the firm was selling. It was a really nice and neat display, with little halogen lamps, the glass not showing any fingerprints, all very posh.
'I want such a display on the department floor, take a picture of it, Heidi', my boss hissed at me. I hesitated for a moment, because it seemed very odd, taking out my camera in the middle of a reception, with all those serious looking people around me. But Hey, they had to start knowing me at that firm, so what the heck : Pulled out the camera from my purse and took a photograph of the display. A few people started looking very odd at me and I felt myself starting to blush a bit ...
'Hihi, industrial espionage', I laughed at them and smiled sheepishly at the men.
Now take a look at that display, ladies and gentlemen, doesn't it look nice ! We are seriously thinking of renting the shelves to the firms, so they can display their material we use, and so we can finance our cupboard.

The presentation started on time, it was very interesting. I'm not going to bore you people much with it, but it was about minimal invasive surgery, percutaneous surgery and dynamic disc systems. I payed very good attention! (Well, how could I do otherwise, sitting between our department doctor and a doctor from Turnhout, I just had to be a good girl) Managed to learn a few new things though, so I'm very happy I could go (Thanks boss, for asking me along !).
After the presentation, there was a 'walking dinner', so you could just scoop up whatever you wanted. First servings were cold dishes, like salmon and carpaggio and vegetables, took a modest plate of them.
After the cold ones, came the warm dishes: turkey, vegetables and those little jacked potatoes with Provencal herbs on them ... couldn't resist those either, but also took a modest serving.
But then, last but not least, Aj Caramba, dessert buffet ...
Sorry folks, just HAD to take one of those delicious petite chocolate mousse bowls, covered with white chocolate sprinkles ... They were just forcing me to take one !
Gonna loose those calories on Friday, while dancing my butt of on the hospital party, that's for sure !