whose beeper is it, any way?

Various hospital facilities have various "codes" for things.

For example, the standard "code" at some hospitals for "whatever, dude" is "STAT." (I know the well-meaning people of Middle Earth think this means "do it now" but if you ever actually have to spend time in a hospital for whatever godforsaken community service reason, you'll know in under 30 seconds flat that "STAT" means "we're gonna lose or forget that page/lab specimen/request for rapid intubation as soon as humanly possible."

And of course, we all know from movies that "code blue" means "your shit's totally fucked up, man; especially since our one intern on call is three city blocks away in another part of the hospital writing "rule out sepsis" orders for a dead patient, on an old wing from 1875 where the overhead paging system doesn't work. Oh wait, dude, we're a community hospital. We don't even have interns/residents, Beavis."

One designation I particularly like is "code brown." In Corporate Hospital Speak, this is supposed to represent "a natural disaster."

In Nurse Speak, this also represents "a natural disaster" of a very different type: it means "bowel evacuation."