Comments on: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/01/banning-cell-phones-in-hospitals-may.html medical blog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:01:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: gasman http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/01/banning-cell-phones-in-hospitals-may.html/comment-page-1#comment-58790 gasman Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/01/19903.html#comment-58790 How much time do patients and their families spend on the phone? It seems that at least half of my bedside visits must either compete with a phone call or interrupt a phone call. <br/><br/>I wish my hospital would make an affirmative leap forward in cell phone reception. Too many areas of the building are dead spots. They could negotiate a deal for an exclusive antenna and router for this medical campus. The cell provider would get hundreds and perhaps thousands of new customers, mostly switchovers from other providers. The hospital would get a robust backup system to the phones because the antenna would use hospital backup power and be designed to function as a local network even if the rest of the cell network in the city went down as would be expected in a crisis. How much time do patients and their families spend on the phone? It seems that at least half of my bedside visits must either compete with a phone call or interrupt a phone call.

I wish my hospital would make an affirmative leap forward in cell phone reception. Too many areas of the building are dead spots. They could negotiate a deal for an exclusive antenna and router for this medical campus. The cell provider would get hundreds and perhaps thousands of new customers, mostly switchovers from other providers. The hospital would get a robust backup system to the phones because the antenna would use hospital backup power and be designed to function as a local network even if the rest of the cell network in the city went down as would be expected in a crisis.

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