Posted on 10/02/2009 10:30:30 AM PDT by RaptorY22
>Leaving out the famous hospital codes “calling Dr. Blue” >and “paging Dr. Fine”.
When I was a lab tech the code for fire was “Dr. Red”, followed by the floor location (e.g., “two north).
Hospital I work for has a whole set of codes:
Blue (well known)
Red.. fire
Orange.. bomb threat
silver.. hostage situation or shooter on the loose
yellow.. hazmat spill
etc.
I read about a hospital that used to announce, “Doctor Mortimer Post! Paging Doctor Mortimer Post!” over the PA whenever they had an interesting case in post mortem that doctors might want to check out.
I was just discussing the Elizabeth Smart story and the facts you just gave are depressing.
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