Indoctrinated (I apologize for the pun)

My hand automatically goes to my hip when I hear a pager go off.

One of my classmates was late to a lecture so the attending asked us if we had his phone number. He then called the student's cell phone directly and when the student didn't answer, he had the operator do an overhead page, "Can medical student _____ please report to lecture?" Overhead pages are announced to the entire hospital. Ouch.

-How come this patient with a hernia didn't get his labs?
-Oh, because of incarceration.
-What? Which was incarcerated, the patient or the hernia?