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Originally Posted by Milnoc
Still, it isn't very reassuring. I've yet to see any consumer electronic product anywhere be adversely affected by any of today's modern cell phones. But put a cell phone near some hospital equipment and it goes crazy? Just what kind of knuckleheaded medical equipment engineers are designing this stuff that they can't even figure out how to build a proper Faraday cage?
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There's so little need for cell phones in a hospital with phones in every room that it's better to play it safe and ask for the phones to be turned off. While a Faraday cage would do the trick, it could also interfere with stuff that needs to plug in and instruments that need to communicate with each other wirelessly. If nothing else, it's a damn good reason to get the assholes to turn off their cellphones in the hospital where they're irritating and disruptive.