Similar to puppet shows and games of Peakaboo!, a prank page is a form of comedic relief for health care professionals.[1][2][3] Nothing boosts morale like briefly screwing over a colleague for a laugh!
Most Popular Forms of Prank Page
- Paging someone that they're patient is coding
- Paging a fake consult at 4:59 PM on a Friday[4]
- Paging a medical student to see a patient with a blown pupil then seeing how they react
- Paging a colleague that all their patients were severely injured in a freak collision of gurneys
- Giving a colleague a Samsung Pager, sending a page, and watching the pager explode![5]
Related Reading
- Page
- Pager
- Seven Blunders of the Medical World
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