I see nothing wrong with using mobiles in hospital except that there is a time and a place. There is nothing worse than a mobile going off when someone is on their deathbed, trying to push out a baby, having an epileptic fit, trying to sleep, having a complicated procedure explained, being given bad news and a million other situations.
Hospitals have nothing to do with the pay phones that are in place within them. These are provided by private companies and those companies reap the monetary benefits (or not, in the case of Patientline). These phones were a government initiative which aimed to provide all patients with a bedside means of communication. Most ward staff disagreed with this where I work because these phones will ring in all of the above circumstances and there is nothing worse than trying to explain a complicated procedure to a patient who is trying to watch Emmerdale on their Patientline telly.
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