As a resident, it used to drive me nuts when I would try to page my attending and he or she wouldn't respond to my page. It was particularly annoying when it was the middle of the night and all I wanted to do was review a case quickly so that I could get to my call room and possibly be horizontal for a few minutes. Whenever it happened to me, I would vow that I would never, ever fail to answer my pager as an attending.
Guess which attending woke up this morning to discover that she'd slept right through a middle of the night page?
I hate it when I'm on call and have a dream that I heard my pager and then I wake up and am not sure what reality is.
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