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Murphy's law has it that bad things will happen at the worst possible time. What could be worse than losing power at a hospital with patients on the tables? One Australian hospital now knows the answer after power was cut to the hospital leaving doctors to complete a surgery using a mobile phone for light. Medical staff had completed the minor surgery and were starting to put stitches in when the lights went out, just before 2:00pm. It goes to show what ingenuity can bring when a need calls for it.
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Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 31 2020, @10:55PM (1 child)
Weren't you singing it's praises the other day? A musl/Linux phone wouldn't have been a distraction because it doesn't have no stinkin' apps of which millennial surgeons seem so addicted.
Call someone who cares! Oh, that's right you can because your silicon valley spyware actually makes calls.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 31 2020, @11:15PM
Oh boy is your memory fscked up. I said it was a total piece of shit, no audio and no dialed and no texting capability. I made it very clear it's currently an overpriced crippled tablet - and you can buy tablets with bigger displays and SOUND for less than half the price that run Linux.
Why not take one of those and add a cellular phone modem instead? The chip can't cost $80 a piece.
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