Broken or Not Broken

A colleague and I were standing at the bakery we go to during our lunch break at the university hospital. (We work at an university research institute attached to the hospital.) Two young nurses passed by chatting to each other. One of the nurses was carrying a large load of patient files. An x-ray fell out of one of the files. In what seemed an inappropriate brief moment, the nurse put the x-ray back into a file. My colleague and I eyed each other and wondered whether such is the way of faulty laboratory results.