Debate about cell phones in hospitals.

[Lady's Human]

Sparks, If you think panicked children can be dealt with that easily, do you have some surprises coming.

[wombat2u2004]

make calls to the kids every hour. step outside and give them an update and reassure them. Come back in and turn off the cell phone.

I must ask my grandmother how she ever dealt with my grandfathers hospitalizations with 4 boys and no cell phones.

or how my mom dealt with her hospitalizations (being a single mom) or how she dealt with her mothers hospitalizations (she had liver cancer) with two kids and no cell phones.

It can be done and is not a nessecity.

Hahahahaha....Sparksy....you're dealing here with people who can't imagine life without the microchips....hehehehehehe....soon they'll be eating them to...lol
Wom

[lizbud]

LOL I really don't udnerstand why this is such a soft spot.... I mean... how did people manage to survive before cell phones were around? How did anyone get a hold of anyone?

Well I don't understand why you have such a soft spot in favor of banning
cell phones from hospitals ? If you don't like them,fine, don't use them, but
I really doubt you can persuade the folks around you to return to the old days.


How did folks survive without them before? Don't know, but they don't have
to do it now. I believe hospitals have relaxed the strict rules agains their use
inside hospitals because they don't interfere with the sensative monitoring
equipment as they thought they would.

[Lady's Human]

How can people survive without cell phones?

We can, but choose not to.

I don't live tied to a cell phone, far from it. I hate the things, BUT.......

when it can make life easier for two traumatized kids, mom, dad AND the baby sitter, the complaint is what, exactly?

Visiting instead of calling? Oops, sorry, the relatives on both sides of the family live 5+ hours away. What made the move away from family easier?

Easy communications.

[sparks19]

Hahahahaha....Sparksy....you're dealing here with people who can't imagine life without the microchips....hehehehehehe....soon they'll be eating them to...lol
Wom

LOL soon we won't have to raise our own kids (we have already started since so many people think TV is a great way to keep your kids busy), drive our own cars, cook our own food, wash ourselves, etc etc.... we will just be big useless blobs of flesh.... with a microchip LOL they will be installed at birth. HAHAHAHA.

I can't imagine what would happen if suddenly the microchip disappeared. LOL people wouldn't know what to do with themselves. it reminds me of a simpsons episode.... Grandpa Simpson is a Walmart greeter and says that people are lost without a greeting... it then show's people repeatedly walking into the wall, a woman crying on the floor and a woman that just keeps jingling her change. I imagine it would look something like that. It would be like WE lost the microchip that keeps us going lol.

anyone remember the stamp? lol how about Pay phones... do they have those anymore?

I can't believe how reliant people are on a cell phone that they can't even turn them off inside a hospital that is full of sick and dying people. it's like asking them to remove their arm and half a leg. I'm amazed LOL. What would happen if they ended up in one of the hospitals that still don't allow cell phone use... would they request a transfer? LOL amazing.

I mean... I live over 8 hours from my family and 14 hours away from my husbands family. We talk once a week and we email sometimes. i call from my *gasp* home phone. I will not be calling them on my cell phone from the hospital. If they need updates my husband can step outside and make a call from his cell phone ... otherwise.... they will have to wait. if I am sick enough to be hospitalized chances are I am not up to phone chit chat.

[Edwina's Secretary]

What is your opinion?

I can't help but wonder why you ask for the opinion of others?

People have told you their opinion and when it helped them deal with a difficult situation.

You have told those who disagree with you that they are wrong.

So...since you already know the one right answer, why ask?

[sparks19]

I can't help but wonder why you ask for the opinion of others?

Because I like the opinions. LOL I am n ot allowed to debate the opinions? LOL the thread title says DEBATE... incase there was any confusion.


Oh and you forgot

[Lady's Human]

Let's start with a basic of medical care.

Anything that makes the patient more comfortable physically and mentally assists in the patient's recovery.

Communication with family helps the patient be more comfortable.

Communication with the family helps the patient's family (and by extension the patient) be more comfortable.

There is no electronic reason to ban them.

If you don't like cell phones in hospitals, there's a simple solution. Find a hospital that bans them, and go there.

You'll probably even be able to get a private room at a decent rate, as I don't think they'll have many willing patrons.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Sure... it makes things "easy" but sometimes life is not meant to be easy. Somtimes you must live life the hard way.

LH...what makes you think comfort is the objective?

[Lady's Human]

Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot. Life is supposed to be hard, so let's make all the hospital rooms into modern renditions of Torquemada's dungeon.


I was in Tx during a record cold snap. We had vehicles to work on, and my squad leader told me to go outside and work on one because "You're from New England, you're used to it."

I replied "Yeah, we're smart enough to stay the hell out of it if we have the chance"

Just because life CAN be hard doesn't mean you have to assist in the degree of difficulty.

[lizbud]

I can't help but wonder why you ask for the opinion of others?

People have told you their opinion and when it helped them deal with a difficult situation.

You have told those who disagree with you that they are wrong.

So...since you already know the one right answer, why ask?

I would blame this bothersome habit on her pregnancy, but it's probably not
that at all. Probably just one of those people who love to argue.

[sparks19]

Let's start with a basic of medical care.

Anything that makes the patient more comfortable physically and mentally assists in the patient's recovery.

Communication with family helps the patient be more comfortable.

Communication with the family helps the patient's family (and by extension the patient) be more comfortable.

There is no electronic reason to ban them.

If you don't like cell phones in hospitals, there's a simple solution. Find a hospital that bans them, and go there.

You'll probably even be able to get a private room at a decent rate, as I don't think they'll have many willing patrons.

So if it was an emergency you would call around to find a hospital that allowed cell phone use?

If you ended up in a hospital that didn't allow cell phone use would you request a transfer.

The hospital I am going to is very small and personal. They dont allow cell phone use... as I said it is a very tiny hospital. it is a half hour away but they offer better personal care than the large hospitals. (at least the ones around here)

See my problem isn't really the people that are AWARE that people around them are sick and what not and they can keep their voice down and their ringers off.... but that is not the majority of people. If everyone had the common sense to turn the ringer off and talk very quietly on a cell phone in a hospital I might not be so objected to it's use in a hospital. BUT too many people seem to be lacking that whole common sense thing and don't understand that not everyone wants to hear their favourite song blaring out of their phone... or how drunk they got last night lol. Especially when they are ill enough to be in the hospital. And since I don't think the Dr's should have to babysit people who don't have common sense... cell phone use should be restricted to private rooms or a cell phone designated area at the very least.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I would blame this bothersome habit on her pregnancy, but it's probably not
that at all. Probably just one of those people who love to argue.

It makes me think of the signature line someone has....."I'm not young enough to know everything!"

[Karen]

I carry a cell phone and rarely use it. However, if a loved one was taken to the hospital, and I was there with them, I'd rather have the option to go to a quiet spot and use the cell phone there to notify and family members, and or contact clergy.

Sparks19, maybe you and everyone in your family is healthy, count your blessings for that. Have you never had to promise an elderly relative, "Yes, Auntie, I will call X and Y and Z as soon as I get home, I promise"? That was in the days before cell phones. If I had been able to call them right that minute, she would have been less upset. Have you never dealt with being in a hospital room that doesn't have a phone assigned to it yet? How nice it would be to be able to call home using a cell phone instead.

[lizbud]

It makes me think of the signature line someone has....."I'm not young enough to know everything!"

There you go. Exactly.