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Re:No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep by mcv on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:45AM (#13236126)
> and ask if my birthday had changed

Er, why? This reeks of a pretty serious administrative fuck-up.

Re:No Doctor Should Work 30 Hours Straight with No Sleep by Spooky23 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:42PM (#13242403)
Around here, every interaction with a hospital employee involves a recitation of your birthdate, allergy status and other crap.

When my wife was having our baby, the nurses had to log into three different systems -- an OBstetrics system, the hospitals charting/EMR and the pharmaceutical system. That meant going through the ritual 3 times.