On 16 Apr 1998 22:42:47 +0100, [log in to unmask] (David Evans) wrote:
>The Medical Devices Agency in the UK has produced a 100 page
>assessment of the risks, which they will send free to any NHS staff
>who request it (sadly they only do a dead tree version). They found
>that mobile phones only caused interference to 4% of medical devices
>at a range of 1 meter, with less than 0.1% showing serious effects. At
>ranges greater than 1 meter the risk fell off sharply.
If you read uk.telecom, the experts there agree that the risk from using a
mobile telephone in a hospital are tiny. Not only can they accurately quote
figures like the above, but they argue that a lot of hospital equipment
produces large EM fields, so the sensitive stuff is all shielded well enough
so mobile phones can't have any effect.
The cynics in the group suggest that public payphones are a big profit
centre for hospitals and this is the _real_ reason behind most mobile phone
bans.
Best wishes
James
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