TOP 10 ways to make your pager go off on call!

[Laryngospasm]

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Me and my fellow residents always joke about this.. These are in no specific order...feel free to add your own.

1.) Sit down to take a crap.
2.) Take your shoes off.
3.) Call a friend on your cell phone.
4.) Taking your pants off and actually getting under the covers.
5.) Set your pager(s) on the bedside table.
6.) Have your significant other bring you food.
7.) Take a shower.
8.) Get in line in the cafeteria.
9.) Sit down.
10.) Fall asleep- 😴 probably number one really..

Please note that performing any of these maneuvers-even if you havent been paged in 3 hours will result in an immediate, emergent page

 

[southerndoc]

Don't forget you're guaranteed to be paged if you piss off the nurses.

 

[VentdependenT]

Be wary when carrying multiple cross cover pagers. When one goes off it tends to arouse its peers causing them to harass you as well. I've tried putting one on vibrate to mute the noise but to no avail. Perhaps they have phermones or some sort of pager esp.

 

[DRealDrZ]

Those are both very good...how about you just look at the clock and realize that you only have half hour until your "call shift" is "over". (at least over on paper)

 

[southerndoc]

Those are both very good...how about you just look at the clock and realize that you only have half hour until your "call shift" is "over". (at least over on paper)

Or you oversleep, it's 6:00 am, you have 10 ICU patients to see, and rounds start at 7:30. God I love that one. Sure enough, you'll be paged... 20 times.

 

[mddo2b]

Me and my fellow residents always joke about this.. These are in no specific order...feel free to add your own.

1.) Sit down to take a crap.
2.) Take your shoes off.
3.) Call a friend on your cell phone.
4.) Taking your pants off and actually getting under the covers.
5.) Set your pager(s) on the bedside table.
6.) Have your significant other bring you food.
7.) Take a shower.
8.) Get in line in the cafeteria.
9.) Sit down.
10.) Fall asleep- 😴 probably number one really..

Please note that performing any of these maneuvers-even if you havent been paged in 3 hours will result in an immediate, emergent page

Walk into the hospital 😡

 

[timtye78]

Have someone from the ED call you to admit someone to the hospital with a 'diagnosis' of
"Frailty"

(happened 3 days ago to me-seriously!)

 

[chicamedica]

On my trauma rotation case #8 happened to me EVERY time without fail. . . MUST be true. . .

 

[Winged Scapula]

Me and my fellow residents always joke about this.. These are in no specific order...feel free to add your own.

1.) Sit down to take a crap.
2.) Take your shoes off.
3.) Call a friend on your cell phone.
4.) Taking your pants off and actually getting under the covers.
5.) Set your pager(s) on the bedside table.
6.) Have your significant other bring you food.
7.) Take a shower.
8.) Get in line in the cafeteria.
9.) Sit down.
10.) Fall asleep- 😴 probably number one really..

Please note that performing any of these maneuvers-even if you havent been paged in 3 hours will result in an immediate, emergent page

Who takes their scrub pants off before going to bed in the call room?
😛

 

[Hawkeye Kid]

8.) Get in line in the cafeteria.

Or, decide that, despite having the opportunity, you're not going to eat dinner yet b/c you're just not that hungry...it only took one 230am dinner to make me learn that one.

 

[Whisker Barrel Cortex]

Turn on the pager. Seriously, it never stops. I got 13 pages in 20 minutes the other day. How am I supposed to concentrate and interpret a full abdominal CT when I am constantly being interupted.

 

[Apollyon]

Turn on the pager. Seriously, it never stops. I got 13 pages in 20 minutes the other day. How am I supposed to concentrate and interpret a full abdominal CT when I am constantly being interupted.

They just installed a PACS viewer in the "box" so that I can look at my own films with high definition, and this has allowed me to greatly decrease how much I have to interrupt the rads resident. I have become acutely aware of how much interruption the residents get, and I have discussed that same thing - about how someone calling and calling and calling breaks up the flow when you're trying to follow a ureter or a pulmonary vessel.

 

[roja]

Turn on the pager. Seriously, it never stops. I got 13 pages in 20 minutes the other day. How am I supposed to concentrate and interpret a full abdominal CT when I am constantly being interupted.

They just can't help but love the barrel. 😉


😍

 

[spyderdoc]

Damn I love Emergency Medicine...NO pagers!
😀

 

[southerndoc]

Damn I love Emergency Medicine...NO pagers!
😀

Ahem, clarification is needed: No pagers as an attending. 🙂