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Nashiwa t1_ivsl42j wrote

Could have been much worse! I remember about 10 years ago when I was working as a volunteer in the ER of my local hospital, one of my colleague (a volunteer as well) had a patient that was getting a little agitated and seemed a bit threatening. So he called the main desk to ask for a code blue (=please send security backup), but got his colors confused and called a code purple (=armed threat with possible hostage situation). I can let you imagine the chaos that ensued.

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MINIMAN10001 t1_ivsq81q wrote

Jeeze and I thought it was bad people at work have twice confused fire code with hazmat code. It's all just announced so like... when you hear maintenance being called to a fire, you know you can just ignore it.

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sassysequin t1_ivu1sr5 wrote

This makes me so glad my hospital uses “plain language” codes so that the only color we have to remember is blue!

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Nashiwa t1_ivu27vm wrote

Right? I had to learn and remember something around 6-8 different colors for different events, if not more. And I think throughout my 2 months of volunteering there, I heard these codes being used less than 4 times

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