Debate about cell phones in hospitals.

[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

[Lady's Human]

Genuinely hasn't acquired the experience--------she's young and hasn't had the joy of hospital visits with a spouse or young children yet

Willful ignorance----------she refuses to acknowledge valid points from people who have been in situations where cell phones were a godsend.

[Lady's Human]

Wombat, Disagreeing is fine.

It gets my hackles up, however, when people call for MORE regulation, when no one can enforce the regulations that are already in place.

Should people remain speechless in a hospital? After all, my joking conversation with the person next to me may offend someone else, and a one on one conversation is far easier to overhear than one end of a phone conversation.

[sparks19]

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

LOL well to be honest.... when they just start off rolling their eyes at me from the beginning of the thread... I just like to see the hackles raise more and more. the rolly eye thing is the "in" thing you know... all the cool kids are doin it. But you know I MUST see their valid points... even though I don't roll my eyes at them lol but that request is rarely returned lol and ALWAYS with rolly eyes hehehe. My view is... if you can't start out the debate without resorting to the roll eyes or sarcastic remarks (not nessecarily LH right away) then I shouldn't have to be the civil one either... it's not a fair request

hehe just teasin... I don't really care either way. But I believe that if they had actually read my posts they would see that I did concede to there being a time and place for the cell phone calls but that the hospital should not be responsible for babysitting the people who just MUST have their cell phone glued to them at all times at full volume. But apparently... that was not enough. I just don't get why people can't see that their loud cell phone ringers (that get more obnoxious each year with all the new special ring tones that you pay a fortune for) and their loud yakking and carrying on might not be appropriate in a hospital setting. If everyone were able to be curteous and be quiet... I might be more apt to agree with cell phone use in the hospital. But most cannot so I think there is a time and place for everything and you should at least try to find an area that isn't filled with people or patients to use your cell phone. I don't think that is an absurd request lol.

Karen, I remember my mom saying that to me one time and I purposely held the face I was making for a long time just to prove her wrong... it didn't stick... but boy was my face sore lol. What about the "if you don't sit back from the TV you will ruin your eye sight" I never believed that one and I have perfect eye sight... for now. but now both of my parents wear glasses so I know it's onlly a matter of time *bites nails anxiously* i wish we had a smiley for that lol a nailbiting smiley.

LH, people shouldn't remain speechless but they certainly should keep their talking to a dull roar. there is no need to be loud and obnoxious in a hospital. whisper.... and you can talk all you like. If you are talking loud enough that they can hear you down the hall... you should be asked to take your convo elsewhere. And apparently many people think you have to yell for the other person to hear you on a cell phone.

OHHHHHHH and those stupid walkie talkie phones. Now you don't even have to dial and hold the phone to your ear.... you can just press a button get a loud BEEP BEEP BEEP and get a loud voice projecting out of the speaker of the phone. Now I don't get those at all. There was a guy in the restaurant using one the other day LOL