What you're talking about there is something that would be familiar to any biomed with a month or two's experience ... that is, prioritizing the work.
Only mindless fools (and, there
are some about, I can assure you) would simply take the next job off the pile, without regard to how urgently it is needed, and whether some other piece of kit needs to jump the queue.
Being able to recognise what is more important than what (that is, an appreciation of the clinical need) is a major part of what being a biomed is all about.
That's why I gave the example of the SAM pump, and not the CT scanner!
By the way, I can't see how losses due to theft warrant too much special consideration when it comes to jumping the repair queue. We've been through this before:- if a patient takes away a piece of kit, then it gets signed for. If it doesn't get returned, someone gets billed. What's wrong with that? If the staff concerned are too "busy" (or careless) to bother about "such minor matters", let them find the funds for replacements themselves (preferably from their own over-inflated salaries)! But if the real problem is a shortage of equipment, why aren't steps taken to obtain more of it?
