Literally Life-Threatening Levels Of Stupidity 
Emergency Services, Hospital, Stupid, USA | Healthy | November 15, 2021 
I work at a hospital switchboard. An emergency services dispatcher has put a caller through who is looking for a patient and insists that they are with us. We have just established that they are not at our hospital. 
 
Me: “I’m sorry, he’s not at this hospital. You need to call back the dispatcher to find out.” 
 
Client: “What’s their number?” 
 
Me: “9-1—” 
 
Client: “Wait! Wait! Let me get a pen. Okay, go.” 
 
Me: “9-1-1.” 
 
Client: “9… 1… 1… Okay. So, do I put my area code in front of that
		 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
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