Telephone confusion

Debi said:
Recently, my local hospital got hacked by a ransom attack. They had to revert to doing everything by paper or on a laptop NOT connected to the main system they were rebuilding. Over the 6 weeks this went on, nurses and docs were scrambling for prescription pads and how to handle documentation that had always been hooked into the system. As one nurse I know put it, "Chaos". I worked in a time of handwritten notes, etc. No computers. They actually did go to some of the older nurses and docs to "relearn" the old ways of pen and paper and the use of paper charts, even if only for temporary use.
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I studied to be a medical assistant, back in the 70's. We learned much more than they teach them at present. A doctor I visited recently, did not know how to write a prescription with Latin terms. She had written on the prescription pad, "Please make into a salve."
 
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garnetsilver said:
I wonder what would happen if something knocked out power to the extent that it affected cell phone towers, what would people do without a computer doing their thinking for them?
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Three years ago when our neighborhood was devastated by multiple tornadoes, the various cell providers brought in mobile cell towers on flatbeds. We were without cell service for less than a day and half until they got the mobile towers erected and operational.
 
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Duke said:
Three years ago when our neighborhood was devastated by multiple tornadoes, the various cell providers brought in mobile cell towers on flatbeds. We were without cell service for less than a day and half until they got the mobile towers erected and operational.
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That is good to know, because depriving the general populace of their phones and computers could result in scary times.
 
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7Critter said:
What a great thread with good info. I never realized how dependent we are to the digital world. It makes sense, though. Anyone born after 1990 never knew a world without the internet.
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Goes back to an apprentice years back asking me how i kept in contact with friends lol. I said, telephone lol. Oh and one wasn't readily available, there was a thing called a payphone lol. Hey...meet here at this time. Done.
 
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Selectric said:
Goes back to an apprentice years back asking me how i kept in contact with friends lol. I said, telephone lol. Oh and one wasn't readily available, there was a thing called a payphone lol. Hey...meet here at this time. Done.
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those were the best times. when you had friends you really knew and more that you just ran across from time to time while cruising or hanging out. today people have hundreds of "friends", but have never actually met any of them. or even spoke with them in real life....yet think they are real friends. sorry, that is just an illusion. if you havent exchanged numbers, had real life conversations etc... its not real... shows lack of trust or just non interest on a real life level....just an illusion....... real life is a much better level that todays internet age is missing out on in a lot of ways.
 
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