n. The practice of medicine by responding primarily to pages and other emergency calls.
1999
With so many timesaving devices, where does all the time go?
In the era of the nanosecond, express lines in fast-food restaurants, speed dialing, beeper medicine and the remote control, the compression of labor meant to free our lives instead leaves us harried and overburdened.
In the era of the nanosecond, express lines in fast-food restaurants, speed dialing, beeper medicine and the remote control, the compression of labor meant to free our lives instead leaves us harried and overburdened.
1999 (earliest)
Other professions, other technological speed-ups: medicine has been profoundly altered by the simple pocket pager. . . . Some doctors worry about the rise of what they call 'beeper medicine'; they see an addiction to paging and quick fixes.