It was a dark and stormy night when snipped-for-privacy@eircom.net (Henry) wrote:
>> Can the public use their own personal mobile phones in American >> hospitals?
> Hospitals I have been in within the last couple of years had areas
> where phones were banned. For example, the waiting room was ok, but
> the actual emergency work area had signs prohibiting phones. I think
> the entire cardiac department was off limits, also Intensive Care > Units.
My mother died last month, in a hospital-based hospice unit. The hospital itself had signs warning visitors not to use cell phones -- except in the hospice unit, where the signs explicitly said it was OK to use cell phones.
Hospices are good things. Support your local hospice.
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Jack Hamilton California
Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit. François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld