Entered the doctors mess yesterday evening to find two fellow FY1s in state of panic clustered round the coffee table. There was the sound of a slightly forlorn pager tone mixed in with cries of:
- Quick get it out, get it out!
- I cant get the back off!
- Ow it's really hot!
I joined the commotion to find one of them attacking a pager with a butter knife, apparently trying to prise the battery out of it. The bleep was bleeping continuously in a very odd tone and smoke appeared to be rising from it. My colleague succeeded in prising the back off to reveal a rather melty looking battery! She looked somewhat tearfully at it and said "This is the SAU on call bleep, it hasnt stopped going off all evening and then it got really hot and started smoking! And it made this weird noise and I thought it was going to explode." So this is what I have to look forward to when I get to the surgical admissions unit.
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