Subject: RE: Gadget Graveyard: 10 Technologies About to Go Extinctlisac957 - 2009-04-14 3:07 PM The only thing I personally use on this list is DVDs.
And every time I see a doctor with a "beeper" I wonder why these incredibly smart, technologically-advanced doctors of modern medicine still have 1980s technology on their belt. I mean, they could just not answer their cell phone/blackberry if they were in the middle of something, right?
So you if a phone was the only means of communication, and you didn't answer it, how does that help anything? We get busy and need to prioritize what we're doing. If I'm in a patient's room talking to them, I'm not answering my phone. If a surgeon's in the OR, they're not answering their phone. There are also pagers that don't belong to one person but are tied to a responsibility and get passed along to different people. Emergency teams, OR teams, disaster teams, etc. carry such pagers. What would you suggest as an alternative? BTW, my phone is my pager because I have an answering service that is able to convert numeric pages to text messages. Not everybody has that luxury. |