Debate about cell phones in hospitals.

[sparks19]

I think you are worrying needlessly. I have never seen that be an issue. And usually "when a family is being torn apart" they are in a private area, not a public one anyway, and frankly, probably wouldn't even hear the cheeriest of songs if it played next to their head.

I don't mean finding out someone didn't make it... I mean when they are in the waiting room waiting to find out what happened and why they are there. You know they are racked with worry... as would I be. Perhaps hospitals here are different... but where I am from... the waiting room is the waiting room and everyone gets stuck there waiting for news or waiting for one to get out of surgery. I certainly wouldn't want to be caught laughing during a phone call... I would feel like a schmuck.... BUT some people don't think that way and would laugh and giggle away without thinking that others around them might not appreciate the noise etc. So I think there should be a designated area for emergency cell phone use.... or a sign requesting that people that are waiting please go outside to answer a call from a friend that is calling to say hi. IMO.

[Karen]

I have never been in a hospital where everyone waits in the same area. I guess that is the advantage of living in a major metropolitan area, but Emergency is separate from Surgery is separate from Maternity, etc.

[sparks19]

I have never been in a hospital where everyone waits in the same area. I guess that is the advantage of living in a major metropolitan area, but Emergency is separate from Surgery is separate from Maternity, etc.

OH well in that sense YES there are different waiting rooms. Emergency is not the same as the waiting room for admitted patients but when I had to have my unfortunate surgery my friend was my driver (of course this was in and out in the same day) and she was in a general waiting room... not emergency but a general waiting room for admitted patients not just surgery. Maternity is also a different area. I think.

Now the hospital I will be delivering at... I dont know because it is apparently a very small hospital.... it is in a small town about a half hour away from here. so I don't know how many different waiting rooms they have but maternity is on a totally different floor as far as I know and the waiting room is on the same floor I think.

[Lady's Human]

Translation.....

You're getting annoyed/irritated/peeved about something you don't even know.

[sparks19]

Translation.....

You're getting annoyed/irritated/peeved about something you don't even know.

About something I don't even know? you mean about the hospital here?

And what is with the eye rolling all the time LOL is that the "in" thing. Someday you might have to use your cell phone in the hospital to tell everyone they have to unroll your eyes

didn't your momma ever tell ya "if you keep making that face it's gonna stick that way"

[Karen]

didn't your momma ever tell ya "if you keep making that face it's gonna stick that way"

I can answer that, as we shared a "momma." No, Ma never told us that, because she knew we'd know better. Faces don't "get stuck" except in cases of things like a stroke, and even then the face is just not able to do what it used to do.

[Lady's Human]

Let's just say that the is the most polite way I can think of to express the utter frustration I feel when trying to explain something to someone who is either willfully ignorant or just genuinely hasn't acquired the experience to understand.

[wombat2u2004]

Let's just say that the is the most polite way I can think of to express the utter frustration I feel when trying to explain something to someone who is either willfully ignorant or just genuinely hasn't acquired the experience to understand.

Hahahaha.....that's a funny one.
From my experience here...Sparks is NEITHER "willfully ignorant or just genuinely hasn't acquired the experience to understand."
She has a very good point of view I feel...its ok for people to agree to disagree....isn't it ????
Wombat