But you see Nurses Doctors and visitors using them regardless! I always switch mine off, do I really need to? And if I do, how is it that these others can use theirs with impunity?
2007-02-16 01:17:04 · 6 answers · asked by kittykatts 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
It's not always necessary, but sometimes cell phones do interfere with important equipment such as heart monitors etc...that help the doctors do their job. Incidents of it actually happening are few and far between, but the possibility is why.
Nurses and Doctors know of the small risk and probably take a chance on nothing happening.
2007-02-16 01:23:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the hospital is a considered a *quiet* zone, and hence the need for it to be turned off, plus I think it also interferes with their testing equipments
2007-02-16 09:28:34 · answer #2 · answered by susan q 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone is wrong... reason is why say your on the floor with someone who had heart surgery.. your phone can interfear
with the equipment, the radio freq might be the same as the hospitals equipment so that's why they don't want you to use a phone in the hospital
2007-02-20 21:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by leowyatt410 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
doctors and nurses need their cells in case they're needed in an emergency to help a patient. Nextels are safe, I think.
2007-02-16 09:26:17 · answer #4 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a matter of distraction. Cell phones don't interfere with pacemakers (I have a device that helps control my epilepsy that is like a pacemaker, and cell phones don't do anything to it.)
2007-02-16 09:27:24 · answer #5 · answered by Kilroy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an issue of respect. If all of those people were jumping off of a bridge would you?
2007-02-16 09:21:48 · answer #6 · answered by Troy R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋