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My hospital's network crashed this week (unrelated to this). Was out for 2-3 hours in early afternoon.

The "downtime" computers were affected just like everything else because there was no network.

Phones are all IP-based now; they didn't work.

Couldn't check patient histories, couldn't review labs, etc. We could still get drugs, thankfully, since each dispensing machine can operate offline.



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