Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human
Take one 5am ambulance run.

Take 2 kids, one 2, one 5, and send them to a friends house for the day while dad runs around checking on Mom and getting various things done.

Go to the hospital, sit by wife's bedside for a few hours.

The few phone calls I got from crying children worried about mom disturbed no one, and saved everyone a lot of grief.

It's allowed, use discretion, and deal with it.

It's wonderful if you use discretion.... but you are one of few.... again it is not NESSECARY. I think in a hospital they have every right to restrict cell phone use. If they must say it is because of machine interference so be it... but people managed to have relatives in hospital and survive without cell phones before... we can survive now. We have just become a society of such convenience that no one really cares about others around them anymore. You can site all kinds of reasons for why it is convenient... but until I hear an absolutely NESSECARY reason... i will never think it is appropriate to use cell phones inside a hospital. All the reasons I have heard are only because it is easy but technically all calls could be made outside of the hospital. It's not the easy way but it can be done.

Like I said.... 20 years ago you wouldn't find people on their cell phones in hospital... somehow they managed. So can everyone else. it's not easy... but life isn't easy.

it isn't allowed in all hospitals... only some. and all those people seem to be able to get by just fine without having a cell phone glued to them. So turn off your cell phone when in the hospital.