It happens. You’ve left work and you’re somewhere where you’d hate to be when you are paged — so of course, you are. We asked our members what is the weirdest place they’ve been and or activity they’ve been doing when they received a page.

“Was stuck in the elevator a few years ago when my trauma surgery pager went off. I called a co-resident who was covering general surgery that night and he ran down to the trauma bay to help out.”

— David Hindin, MD

“While getting an abdominal ultrasound to check on my twins post call. I was half asleep so my MFM doc answered it for me. He was awesome!”

— Qaali A Hussein, MD

“Once I was at a U2 concert, once at a rugby match (watching the New Zealand All Blacks!). When I did locums in New Zealand I was in the middle of a hike on a mountain with a beautiful view of a water volcano. I also was paged once while running along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago training for a half marathon.”

— Shikha Jain, MD

“I had taken the day off to take my kids to Disney for the last day of school. I was in line at the Epcot Star Wars launch pad when I got called by a colleague. The patient was critically ill and they wanted my input. The mom and baby ended up doing well but “Kylo Ren” glared at me because I dared to be on the phone. He was scary….”

— Judette Louis, MD

“I may have been paged out of a few bad dates __”

— Latisha Rowe, MD

“In the same patient room as the nurse who was paging me.”

— Family Medicine

“Pap smear.”

— Nephrologist

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