I got a pager.
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They still have those? Are hospitals pager-friendly? Do they have banks of payphones?
ReplyDeleteActually, pagers are more reliable in low-signal areas like walled/basement hospital areas and have less interference with medical equipment because they never send out information (they just receive one-way) and never "search" for data (they just get it pushed without "asking" like a BlackBerry).
ReplyDeleteStill, they'll probably be replaced by smartphones in the future.
Thank you Steven. I figured they were used still used for a reason - my guess had been some form of simple reliability and tradition. Didn't know about interference.
ReplyDeleteOur school just started the option of electing to get pages on your cell phone as text messages... but very few people are doing it, thanks to the unreliability of AT&T, verizon, sprint, whatever, in certain parts of the hospital (basement, elevators) and also none of my classmates want to be the med student that gets a dirty look from an attending for pulling out his or her cell phone for a text.