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greytone · 04-29-2003, 04:34 PM

Cell phones can be very important these days. Just try and find a pay phone when you are paged. Most of them have been taken away.

I am on-call over 100 nights a year and I really need one. I leave it turned off and only make outgoing calls when I am paged. If I am eating out, I usually go outside, but if there are few people in a casual place, I try and talk quietly. If I have to raise my voice, I get up then, and go outside.

I do return calls from the hospital while driving, but only with a handsfree device. I don't call patients back without pulling over because I have to give them my full attention and I have to take notes. When I am talking to a nurse, I frequently zone out because the driving requires my full attention. When things are back to normal, I resume the converasation. I figure that this is about the same as if I was talking to someone in the car. Not everyone is capable of that....I have actually seen people talking with their hands or yelling into the phone. I also dial while at a stoplight or use the speed dial to the main hospital number and have the operator connect me to the correct unit.

04-29-2003, 04:34 PM	#46 (permalink)
greytone Junkie	Cell phones can be very important these days. Just try and find a pay phone when you are paged. Most of them have been taken away. I am on-call over 100 nights a year and I really need one. I leave it turned off and only make outgoing calls when I am paged. If I am eating out, I usually go outside, but if there are few people in a casual place, I try and talk quietly. If I have to raise my voice, I get up then, and go outside. I do return calls from the hospital while driving, but only with a handsfree device. I don't call patients back without pulling over because I have to give them my full attention and I have to take notes. When I am talking to a nurse, I frequently zone out because the driving requires my full attention. When things are back to normal, I resume the converasation. I figure that this is about the same as if I was talking to someone in the car. Not everyone is capable of that....I have actually seen people talking with their hands or yelling into the phone. I also dial while at a stoplight or use the speed dial to the main hospital number and have the operator connect me to the correct unit. __________________ I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing. Robert A Heinlein in "They Do It With Mirrors"