New year, new Medical Service!

Feeling sick at CERN has never been so nice. The medical service has been completely renewed over the last few months, and its team starts 2002 with fresh installations in order to make your state of indisposition less uncomfortable.
Those who last visited building 57 six months ago probably won't recognise its new structure. Apart from a creamy colour on the wall, which cheers up the atmosphere, the distribution of the service has completely changed. You may find - as usual - the infirmary downstairs but the laboratory, the secretariat and the doctors on the first floor.
Another main change is the reception in both ground floor (emergencies) and first floor. While you wait to be attended to, you can sit in a comfortable waiting room. The faces you'll find won't be familiar either: the nurses Katie Thomson and Françoise Lebrun-Klauser replace Janet Doody and Marion Diedrich, who retired last December. Marloeke Bol has recently joined the team as a secretary in Joanne Madden's place.
A new blood test chair has been purchased, windows have an insulation system which guarantees warmth and there's a special room where nurses talk to patients to get a general overview of their medical situation. Before, the first medical tests done by the nurses used to take place in the waiting room, with no privacy at all. With all these changes you might now really feel like going to the doctor!