2-432: A sick bay is a compartment in a ship , or a section of another organisation, such as a school or college, used for medical purposes. The sick bay contains the ship's medicine chest , which may be divided into separate cabinets, such as a refrigerator for medicines requiring cold storage and a locked cabinet for controlled substances such as morphine . The sick bay and the medicine chest should be kept locked, with
4-472: The keys only being available to the medical officer and the ship's master . The term is also applied ashore by the United States Navy and Marine Corps to treatment clinics on naval stations and Marine bases . Sick bays (sometimes referred to as med bays ) appear in popular science fiction franchises, such as Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek , as the medical facility on board
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