BEEPER MEDICINE
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n.The practice of medicine by responding primarily to pages and other emergency calls.Example Citation:With so many timesaving devices, where does all the time go?In the era of the nanosecond, express lines in fast-food restaurants, speed dialing, beeper medicine and the remote control, the compression of labor meant to free our lives instead leaves us harried and overburdened.—David Walton, "Timesaving devices have time-losing drawbacks," The Dallas Morning News, August 29, 1999Earliest Citation:Other professions, other technological speed-ups: medicine has been profoundly altered by the simple pocket pager.. . . Some doctors worry about the rise of what they call 'beeper medicine'; they see an addiction to paging and quick fixes.—James Gleick, Faster, Pantheon, August 17, 1999Related Words:bed blockerhallway medicinehit-and-run nursinghospitalisthurry sicknessnarrative medicinenocturniston-call-ogistprayer beepersicker and quickerslow medicinestreet nursesurgicalisttelephone triageCategory:Medicine