Paging Dr. Armstrong

Some medical facilities use a secret code when the staff needs assistance to handle an unruly or agitated visitor. When the message Paging Dr. Armstrong goes out over the speaker system, it’s a call for this kind of help. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Paging Dr. Armstrong”

We heard from Lenny Lefebvre in Corona, California.

She works in veterinary medicine, and she once worked in a clinic in Washington State where the staff decided that they needed some kind of code that they could use over the loudspeaker if a client got particularly unruly.

And they found out that there’s a code that’s used in medical facilities for when somebody gets disruptive and the staff needs an authority figure to come in and de-escalate things.

And that’s paging Dr. Armstrong.

That makes good sense.

Yeah.

Dr. Armstrong.

Yeah.

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but when I worked in IT, one of the companies I worked for, we would forward sales calls to Mr. Springfield, which was a dead-end voicemail box.

Oh, really?

We never emptied.

Got that from The Simpsons.

That’s just a Springfield.

Oh, oh, oh.

877-929-9673.

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