From The Mayo Clinic:Calls made on cellular phones have no negative impact on hospital medical devices, dispelling the long-held notion that they are unsafe to use in health care facilities, according to Mayo Clinic researchers.
In a study published in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers say normal use of cell phones results in no noticeable interference with patient care equipment. Three hundred tests were performed over a five-month period in 2006, without a single problem incurred.
Involved in the study were two cellular phones which used different technologies from different carriers and 192 medical devices. Tests were performed at Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester.
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Seriously folks, this has really gone on long enough. This is just one of those things that no matter how much data accumulates, fear of some wacko lawyer, and some random baseless lawsuit resulting in some payout will keep cell phones out of hospitals for years to come. Are the hospitals really that desperate to charge for that daily phone use as most institutions do?
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