It started off, we were told/ it was suggested we Do Not use mobile phones in hospitals – because they can affect the sensitive equipment in use there.
Sounds so reasonable – frequencies, wavelengths; constant monitoring equipment etc etc.
Then everywhere – I am talking here about the acme of informed representation, in films and on tv – we see phones in use on hospitals again. I think I even remember one of the fictional representatives of the medical profession assuring the user that it perfectly ok to use them.
It was just an ill-informed scare story – you know, the sort the liberal/libertarian wusses flap about along with their PC rubbish.
And then, well, my wife was hospital visiting and having time on her hands: hospitals – all waiting, little of the seeing-to – got chatting to a nurse.
And the latest directive from medical counsels is that
YES,
they Can interfere with ECG, EEG, even Pace-Makers.
I have not seen any reports of any problems – but then, I do not read Medical journals; nor do I read a wide swatch of newspapers. How would I know?
Maybe it is even thought ‘convenient’, by interested parties, to play it down.
If so it cannot be long before we start to read/read reports in this field.
As for me I think I’d choose to err on the side of caution.
Whenever I’ve been in hospital, I’ve always been told that it’s fine to use my mobile. I expect different PCT’s have different rules, but up norf!
So much conflicting info – what does a sensible, responsible person do?
Oop norf, or darn sarf: s’all the same all over now.
No way out! No way out!
Maybe it is… all over now.
(It does indeed feel like that sometimes!)
Apparently the police system uses more powerful signals and causes even more interference, you’d think they’d think these things through!
Thanks fer yer innerest!
Nothing ever does seem to get thought through, though, does it! Makes me wonder if anything ever has. Would answer a lot of questions!
I remember leaving uni, after several years of essays. dissertations etc where every point had to be backed up, every conclusion inferred from the premise etc etc – and then to find what a wishy-washy, ad-hoc world it was!
A kind of culture-shock I’m still reeling from; except now it is called cynicism.