Hospitals Ease Cellphone Bans

[brian_riendeau]

If you're in because you've just had a kid, the last thing you want/can do is walk all the way outside to make/receive a phone call.

So it can't wait to call your relatives? They just have to know right then?

Obviously you don't have kids.

I have NEVER seen a hospital room that did not have a phone in it. Get a clue people, use the phone that is already in the room. If you do not have long distance from the room, use a calling card. Anyone who is too freaking lazy to walk outside is also going to be too lazy to walk to a designated cell phone area in a hospital anyway.

 

[brian_riendeau]

If the woman giving birth had a C-section, she CAN'T WALK so you're probably going to take/make such calls in your room. Not outside. Plus, there's that whole infant thing to look after who also CAN'T LEAVE THE MATERNITY WARD for a few days.

Yeah, and if she had a C-section, chances are she is hooked up to equpiment to keep monitoring her condition after the operation. Why not just hand the phone to her and let is ring a bunch while it is 18 inches away from all of the monitoring equipment.

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Oakenfold

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Oakenfold

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Oakenfold

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Oakenfold
Seriously is it that hard to keep your phone off until you are outside of the hospital?

If you're in because you've just had a kid, the last thing you want/can do is walk all the way outside to make/receive a phone call.

So it can't wait to call your relatives? They just have to know right then?

OMGWTFNOICAN'T.

What are you, 14? :roll:

Nope I'm a courteous adult who knows when it is appropriate to use a cell phone.

If you were a courteous adult, you'd think.....then post. Don't make me spell out why your post was completely stupid.

I'm thinking that a courteous adult would justify his point instead of resorting to calling someone stupid.
What's the benefit of calling someone immediately? Why can't it wait just a couple minutes? Is someone going to die because your answer is delayed?

1) It's probably the largest life-event anyone ever experiences. You want to tell everyone immediately, and they want to know ASAP.

2) After the fact, you will be barraged with calls. If the woman giving birth had a C-section, she CAN'T WALK so you're probably going to take/make such calls in your room. Not outside. Plus, there's that whole infant thing to look after who also CAN'T LEAVE THE MATERNITY WARD for a few days.

Like I said, think, then post. If you don't know wtf you're talking about (which you don't) just opt not to post next time. Thanks.

1) No one is stating it's not. You want to tell everyone immediateley. Is something really really nasty going to happen if it waits a few minutes?

2) See back to 1)

Thanks for posting and showing how you don't care for other people's well being or their privacy.
Have a nice day!

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

If the woman giving birth had a C-section, she CAN'T WALK so you're probably going to take/make such calls in your room. Not outside. Plus, there's that whole infant thing to look after who also CAN'T LEAVE THE MATERNITY WARD for a few days.

Yeah, and if she had a C-section, chances are she is hooked up to equpiment to keep monitoring her condition after the operation. Why not just hand the phone to her and let is ring a bunch while it is 18 inches away from all of the monitoring equipment.

And? It won't do anything, Brian. RTFA.

 

[Fausto]

1) It's probably the largest life-event anyone ever experiences. You want to tell everyone immediately, and they want to know ASAP.

2) After the fact, you will be barraged with calls. If the woman giving birth had a C-section, she CAN'T WALK so you're probably going to take/make such calls in your room. Not outside. Plus, there's that whole infant thing to look after who also CAN'T LEAVE THE MATERNITY WARD for a few days.

Like I said, think, then post. If you don't know wtf you're talking about (which you don't) just opt not to post next time. Thanks.

[/quote]

1) No one is stating it's not. You want to tell everyone immediateley. Is something really really nasty going to happen if it waits a few minutes?

2) See back to 1)

Thanks for posting and showing how you don't care for other people's well being or their privacy.
Have a nice day![/quote]
Again, you obviously don't have kids.

As for privacy, I'm the first person to glare at someone for having a loud, inane cell-phone conversation, but stuff that goes on in hospitals is far from inane in most cases. I'm not going to fscking walk outside to tell my parents the news when I'm standing in front of the neonatal unit watching the nurses clean up my daughter who is all of 10 minutes old, you moron. It's not like I'm in a restaurant discussing my hemorrhoids with my golf buddy on a cell.

As for the rest of the calls, they're going to be made from my room where I'm bothering no one.

Again. Think. Then post. Think. Then post. See? It's like a happy rythym of sorts. Play along.

 

[brian_riendeau]

And? It won't do anything, Brian. RTFA.

Maybe you should be the one reading???

I work in a hospital and use one alot, but I also know evertime ti rings i can see the interference in the polygraph near me.
safe for most areas, but they are right to limit them in the OR/ICU and other areas with a lot of sensitive monitoring equipment

 

[brian_riendeau]

I'm not going to fscking walk outside to tell my parents the news when I'm standing in front of the neonatal unit watching the nurses clean up my daughter who is all of 10 minutes old, you moron. It's not like I'm in a restaurant discussing my hemorrhoids with my golf buddy on a cell.

Use. The. Phone. In. The. Room.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

I'm not going to fscking walk outside to tell my parents the news when I'm standing in front of the neonatal unit watching the nurses clean up my daughter who is all of 10 minutes old, you moron. It's not like I'm in a restaurant discussing my hemorrhoids with my golf buddy on a cell.

Use. The. Phone. In. The. Room.

The. Neonatal. Unit. Isn't. In. The. Room.


That's. Where. They. Take. Your. Kid. First. Dumbass.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

I'm not going to fscking walk outside to tell my parents the news when I'm standing in front of the neonatal unit watching the nurses clean up my daughter who is all of 10 minutes old, you moron. It's not like I'm in a restaurant discussing my hemorrhoids with my golf buddy on a cell.

Use. The. Phone. In. The. Room.

The. Neonatal. Unit. Isn't. In. The. Room.


That's. Where. They. Take. Your. Kid. First. Dumbass.

L. O. L.

 

[brian_riendeau]

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

I'm not going to fscking walk outside to tell my parents the news when I'm standing in front of the neonatal unit watching the nurses clean up my daughter who is all of 10 minutes old, you moron. It's not like I'm in a restaurant discussing my hemorrhoids with my golf buddy on a cell.

Use. The. Phone. In. The. Room.

The. Neonatal. Unit. Isn't. In. The. Room.


That's. Where. They. Take. Your. Kid. First. Dumbass.

LMAO...I haven't seen Fausto this worked up since someone hid his thong.

Why not just test the medical equipment, put proper warning lables on them and then make sure that people adhere to them?

Oh wait. There are already too many warning labels on things because morons try to use blow dryers in the shower and iron their clothes while wearing them.

The last time my son had to go to the ER, the doc actually told me to use my cell phone. Granted that was because a nurse screwed up and almost killed my son....

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

If you're in because you've just had a kid, the last thing you want/can do is walk all the way outside to make/receive a phone call.

So it can't wait to call your relatives? They just have to know right then?

Obviously you don't have kids.

I have NEVER seen a hospital room that did not have a phone in it. Get a clue people, use the phone that is already in the room. If you do not have long distance from the room, use a calling card. Anyone who is too freaking lazy to walk outside is also going to be too lazy to walk to a designated cell phone area in a hospital anyway.

How bout you get hit upside the head with the clue stick? :roll: Last time I checked, hospitals don't usually let people call long distance for free.

 

[brian_riendeau]

Last time I checked, hospitals don't usually let people call long distance for free.

Last time I checked, having the baby is going to cost thousands of dollars anyway. If calling Uncle Joe is not worth a possibly $2 phone call to you, it would have been a wasted phone call anyway. And you can find calling cards at any gas station, grocery store, strip mall...

//Hospitals typically reccomend that you pay attention and bring things with you to the hospital that you may need, like calling cards, extra clothes, favorite foods. Most expecting mothers pack a bag of stuff to haul to the hospital with them, sticking a calling card in there is no big deal.

 

[Gulzakar]

whats the big deal about stepping outside?

It's a Hospital, go outside to use the cell phone...

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

Last time I checked, hospitals don't usually let people call long distance for free.

Last time I checked, having the baby is going to cost thousands of dollars anyway. If calling Uncle Joe is not worth a possibly $2 phone call to you, call him later. And you can find calling cars at any gas station, grocery store, strip mall...

you still get charged per call. They charge for local calls too. This is a good point though, the hospitals are going to start losing revenue from the phone calls. Now I see whats going on.....

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

Last time I checked, hospitals don't usually let people call long distance for free.

Last time I checked, having the baby is going to cost thousands of dollars anyway. If calling Uncle Joe is not worth a possibly $2 phone call to you, it would have been a wasted phone call anyway. And you can find calling cards at any gas station, grocery store, strip mall... Hospitals typically reccomend that you pay attention and bring things with you to the hospital that you may need, like calling cards, extra clothes, favorite foods. Most expecting mothers pack a bag of stuff to haul to the hospital with them.

If there's no good reason not to use my cell minutes, which I've already paid for, I'm not going to dick around with a calling card. I don't see how that's hard to understand.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Gulzakar
whats the big deal about stepping outside?

It's a Hospital, go outside to use the cell phone...

because you are usually 6 or 7 stories up. Then you have to try to find your way back to the room. Why should we have to?

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

Last time I checked, hospitals don't usually let people call long distance for free.

Last time I checked, having the baby is going to cost thousands of dollars anyway. If calling Uncle Joe is not worth a possibly $2 phone call to you, it would have been a wasted phone call anyway. And you can find calling cards at any gas station, grocery store, strip mall... Hospitals typically reccomend that you pay attention and bring things with you to the hospital that you may need, like calling cards, extra clothes, favorite foods. Most expecting mothers pack a bag of stuff to haul to the hospital with them.

If there's no good reason not to use my cell minutes, which I've already paid for, I'm not going to dick around with a calling card. I don't see how that's hard to understand.

He's not a father so he'll never understand until he becomes one. He's just arguing for the sake of arguing. He knows his argument has no merit whatsoever and that he's a moron

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

Last time I checked, hospitals don't usually let people call long distance for free.

Last time I checked, having the baby is going to cost thousands of dollars anyway. If calling Uncle Joe is not worth a possibly $2 phone call to you, it would have been a wasted phone call anyway. And you can find calling cards at any gas station, grocery store, strip mall... Hospitals typically reccomend that you pay attention and bring things with you to the hospital that you may need, like calling cards, extra clothes, favorite foods. Most expecting mothers pack a bag of stuff to haul to the hospital with them.

If there's no good reason not to use my cell minutes, which I've already paid for, I'm not going to dick around with a calling card. I don't see how that's hard to understand.

He's not a father so he'll never understand until he becomes one. He's just arguing for the sake of arguing. He knows his argument has no merit whatsoever and that he's a moron

I'm not sure he knows. We need to keep at this until he's absolutlely clear on his status as a moron. I won't be able to sleep at night knowing he's wandering around in total ignorance of his ignorance.

 

[brian_riendeau]

He's not a father so he'll never understand until he becomes one.

I will let you know in a couple months, my wife is pregnant right now

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

He's not a father so he'll never understand until he becomes one.

I will let you know in a couple months, my wife is pregnant right now

I'll bet you $5 you can't stay off the cell in the hospital.

 

[brian_riendeau]

I'm not sure he knows. We need to keep at this until he's absolutlely clear on his status as a moron. I won't be able to sleep at night knowing he's wandering around in total ignorance of his ignorance.

Sorry for keeping you up at night.

Anyway, the general argument seems to be do not use cell phones directly next to highly senstitive equipment and you are fine. The problem here is that hospitals are absolutely packed with such equipment, and most of it is mobile and gets carted around from room to room. It is much easier for a hospital to say "No cell phones" then it is to say, "No call phones within X feet of certain equpiment, and make sure you turn off your phone if you see any of that equpiment passing by you in a hallway."

Also, some people with cells are sometimes disrespectful as it is, and they would be roaming all over the place where they should not be, making the issue worse. People would not want to be told, "You can talk over there, but not 5 feet closer over here..."

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

I'm not sure he knows. We need to keep at this until he's absolutlely clear on his status as a moron. I won't be able to sleep at night knowing he's wandering around in total ignorance of his ignorance.

Sorry for keeping you up at night.

Anyway, the general argument seems to be do not use cell phones directly next to highly senstitive equipment and you are fine. The problem here is that hospitals are absolutely packed with such equipment, and most of it is mobile and gets carted around from room to room. It is much easier for a hospital to say "No cell phones" then it is to say, "No call phones within X feet of certain equpiment, and make sure you turn off your phone if you see any of that equpiment passing by you in a hallway."

Also, some people with cells are generally disrespectful as it is, and they would be roaming all over the place where they should not be.

Again. $5. Stay off the cell.

 

[brian_riendeau]

Send me a PM in a few weeks, I'll let you know how it went

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: brian_riendeau

I'm not sure he knows. We need to keep at this until he's absolutlely clear on his status as a moron. I won't be able to sleep at night knowing he's wandering around in total ignorance of his ignorance.

Sorry for keeping you up at night.

Anyway, the general argument seems to be do not use cell phones directly next to highly senstitive equipment and you are fine. The problem here is that hospitals are absolutely packed with such equipment, and most of it is mobile and gets carted around from room to room. It is much easier for a hospital to say "No cell phones" then it is to say, "No call phones within X feet of certain equpiment, and make sure you turn off your phone if you see any of that equpiment passing by you in a hallway."

Also, some people with cells are generally disrespectful as it is, and they would be roaming all over the place where they should not be.

Again. $5. Stay off the cell.

He'll be using his camera phone during the birthing process and posting pics on here. Just you wait and see.