Working nights in the basement I usually never saw anyone except the messenger that took the records upstairs. But one day, finally, it happened. Two attendents were wheeling in someone under a sheet, someone who had been fairly rotund. When the rollers hit the expansion joint, the sheet wiggled. I continued on to the vending machines, stared at them for a few moments, and just went back to work.
Nosocomial diseases are diseases spread through hospitals themselves, from patient to patient.
Hospitals are dangerous places. People die there. People go in with one thing and die of another. Hospital workers have increased risks of just about everything that can be caught. They hired another guy, and apparently some of the other people didn't like him, but I told our boss he was a good worker.