...That the hospital I work in finally installed an electronic medical
record system. I was messing around with it and discovered
that the hospital administration had accessed a record of a sleep study
the hospital had done on me. It turned out that they were
trying to figure out a way to use my brain power while I was sleeping.
In essence, they wanted me to work 24 hours a day.
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