Post #2706121
2025-10-10 08:30 UTC
I have a new job.
To explain it, let me tell you a story.
Have you ever been in the hospital, or with a family member in the hospital, when all the chaos is surrounding you — the busy nurses, the other patients talking, the machines going beep-beep-beep, the occasional sirens outside — and wondered, “How will we get the right medication? Are we sure those are our test results? How will they know who it is in this bed?”
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@hadleybeeman@w3c.social 2025-10-10 08:30
I have. And I have wondered all those things. And thought about the consequences if they go wrong. It’s a scary moment, easy to feel powerless. And the stakes feel high. But then the nurse comes to take observations, and scans the wrist band. Beep! Medications are scanned before they’re put in that tiny paper cup. Beep! The phlebotomist takes blood, and attaches barcodes to the vial. (That will beep in the lab.) 2/
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@nick_appleyard@mastodonapp.uk 2025-10-10 09:13
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social Oh, that's work worth turning up on a Monday for!
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@dhwthompson@mastodon.social 2025-10-10 16:21
@hadleybeeman@w3c.social Hadley Beeman, Head of Beeps. I like it. Congratulations on the new role, my friend.