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"Code" is medical resident lingo for emergency resuscitation team response. Different hospitals use different names; some use numbers, some colors, but they are all ways of instantly telling the people who work there, without scaring patients and visitors, that there's an emergency. Code red is typically a fire in...
A page operator's voice, clearer than usual, would repeat "code blue, Six West" through the enormous hospital complex. The code team residents would drop everything - being in the middle of an operation the single exception - and run at full speed to the floor location. Chief residents had keys that...
"A second code five, six west" was on the overhead as we ran onto the floor. Two codes at the same time on the same floor? "They're both in here," called a very distressed female voice from a patient room on the far side of the floor. We charged...
We also knew that we had been through the oddest of codes, and that few ever ended this happily. I went back to finish evening rounds and fell asleep thinking - about an old Avengers' episode in which Diana Rigg's black leather gloves keep her from being affected by a...
The report, based on interviews with the parents of 896 asthmatic children in 10 different cities, contained some good news. Eighty percent of parents had a handle on at least one of the triggers that worsened their children's asthma. After that, however, many parents seemed to go astray, taking...