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06 / Patient care · On call

The pager decides nothing. You do.

A call shift is a prioritisation exam that never announces itself: every page competes with every other, and the skill is the order, airway before bleeding before perfusion before pain, plus the phone-craft that manages everyone you are not walking toward. The shift ends the way real ones do: with a handover the day team can act on.

On call

19:10

Sign-out done, list updated, first coffee untouched. Three pages in four minutes.

Who do you see first?