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[carsonshepherd]

Whose your post-op daddy?

Narrator wins the sympathy of a pretty nurse. Nurse snags an orderly and a gurney. Orderly shuffles down the hallway in front of the patient's room with narrator under a sheet. Pretty nurse asks guard for help with something heavy, guard leaves post, narrator slips off gurney into the room.

 

[Young-Impressionable]

If you want to be sneaky and not enlist help of hospital staff, you will have to have a name badge. That can be easily snagged. A dietician or social worker usually wears street clothes so that no special clothing or props are needed.

Anyone who looks "official" can get by security.

 

[3113]

Anyone who looks "official" can get by security.

I wouldn't believe it if I was reading the story. Not if the case is THAT high profile and they know someone might be trying to hurt or threaten the patient. Under those circumstances, the guards would know exactly who to let in, and no one, however official looking would get in without the guards first calling to confirm that said official was sent by the doctor in charge.

Otherwise, it would be the guard's asses. They'd be blamed for destroying a national case! I kinda think they'd be on their toes in that instance and the old "dress as a doctor" trick wouldn't work.

 

[Guest]

Say you're trying to get into see someone in a hospital but they're being guarded - not as a prisoner but for their own protection because they're a key witness in a high-profile case. How would you get in?

(This is my second-to-last chapter so all help appreciated....)

Well the only thing that has been in my head lately is sci-fi fantasy paranormal stuff....

I would have them turn into something that could get through the window, or screen..... mist, fog, electricity

but thats probably not what you were thinking

 

[Guest]

Say you're trying to get into see someone in a hospital but they're being guarded - not as a prisoner but for their own protection because they're a key witness in a high-profile case. How would you get in?

(This is my second-to-last chapter so all help appreciated....)

You could always find out the guard's name and then have him paged to say the nurse's desk, slip in while his back is turned.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Say you're trying to get into see someone in a hospital but they're being guarded - not as a prisoner but for their own protection because they're a key witness in a high-profile case. How would you get in?

(This is my second-to-last chapter so all help appreciated....)

How high profile Carson? If it's interjurisdictional, say invloving several different departments, vice, narc, etc., or invloving possible FBI/Dea etc. I's put on a nice suit. something low cut. Grab a clipboard, with plenty of forms on it. Trace one out, fill it in, and make a big X by the signature.

Locate the room, breeze right in, stip at the front desk, ask security there to call and let them know I'm coming up, shove the clip board in their face and say on the X's buddy.

Brazen your way right onto the ward, stop at the guard, say I've got some questions, jam the clip board in front of him and say on the X's.

It might sound a little silly, but people, especially security personell, are so used to multiple forms and paper pushing. Show them a clipboard, tell em to sign on the x's and they will, quite often assume you have to be one of them. You have to admit it dosen't cross yourmind that a would be assassin would be collecting autographs.

I've seen it work. A long haul driver once breezed into the facility where I worked. He had a clip board, several forms, just brazened his way right into the office, said he needed the delivery manager. the secretary paged him, he came up from the back, the guy said I need a sig, priority delivery, can't drop till I get it. Guy signed it, called the yard driver to move the guy's trailer for him. The guy got a sig from the yard driver. Took his load and was on his way. In the proces he skipped about a 6 hour wait and ten other drivers who had dropped ahead of him.

If you character has guts, can brazen it through and can look like a harried offical, it's more than plauisble enough to get him/her into a place they shouldn't be. People are odd that way, but anyone who has worked in a job wehre the paper trail is obessessed over by the higher ups just become inured to having to sign for every damned thing. After a while you quit even looking at what you are signing. And most importantly, you quit questioning why it's needed. The funny thing is, when it was discovered, the manager couldn't even tell the warehouse manager what kind of form it was he signed

 

[carsonshepherd]

How high profile Carson? If it's interjurisdictional, say invloving several different departments, vice, narc, etc., or invloving possible FBI/Dea etc. I's put on a nice suit. something low cut. Grab a clipboard, with plenty of forms on it. Trace one out, fill it in, and make a big X by the signature.

Locate the room, breeze right in, stip at the front desk, ask security there to call and let them know I'm coming up, shove the clip board in their face and say on the X's buddy.

Brazen your way right onto the ward, stop at the guard, say I've got some questions, jam the clip board in front of him and say on the X's.

Hmmm. This is a wonderful idea, but slipping in on a gurney is so much more... dashing, dontcha think?

 

[carsonshepherd]

I wouldn't believe it if I was reading the story. Not if the case is THAT high profile and they know someone might be trying to hurt or threaten the patient. Under those circumstances, the guards would know exactly who to let in, and no one, however official looking would get in without the guards first calling to confirm that said official was sent by the doctor in charge.

Otherwise, it would be the guard's asses. They'd be blamed for destroying a national case! I kinda think they'd be on their toes in that instance and the old "dress as a doctor" trick wouldn't work.

You're right on and your suggestions have been most helpful. Thanks!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Hmmm. This is a wonderful idea, but slipping in on a gurney is so much more... dashing, dontcha think?

Really depends on your character more than anything. His/her MO should be tailored to keeping the character real. Obviously, a mouseburger, no matter how desperate, couldn't bluff their way in. that's the manner of egress of a very confidenet character.

Slipping in on a gurney has some dash, but having spent a lot of time in Er's, I can say that would be a last resort for me. It only takes one concientious nurse or nurse aide, to look at the chart or the patient and get them moved to where they need to be, be it the er, a private room or the morgue.

To me, you should consider all ideas, look at your character objectively and decide which has the most realistic chance of success based on his/her personality. If you plan on them succeeding on gettin gin, you have a dual problem. the methond must be plausible to the reader and consistant to the character.

I'm confident you'll get both right