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Mon Mar 19 02:06:44 GMT 2007

Our biomed department got very very heavy handed a few years ago when we  got 
a person who was brought in from the outside and wanted to push his weight  
around.   He passed a bunch of new "safety" rules, including no cell  phones in 
the hospital, no cell phones in the ICUs etc.   I asked for  the data and he 
showed me a bunch of things much like we are reading from the  tree huggers 
relating to global warming.     I told him that  I was delighted to support him, 
but that a change of policy would have to come  to the Medical Executive 
Committee.     I asked that he set  up a monitor demonstration in the executive 
committee to demonstrate how  the various cell phones affected pacemakers, 
monitors, ECGs,  etc.    He spent three months trying to show ANY effect on ANY  
device by ANY cell phone.    NOTHING.  We never saw  any new policies and still 
use cell phones in the ICUs and in the  hospital.   

k 

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