Значение слова "BEEPER MEDICINE" найдено в 1 источнике

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, 1999
Earliest 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, 1999
Related Words:
bed blocker
hallway medicine
hit-and-run nursing
hospitalist
hurry sickness
narrative medicine
nocturnist
on-call-ogist
prayer beeper
sicker and quicker
slow medicine
street nurse
surgicalist
telephone triage
Category:
Medicine


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