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Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light

posted by martyb on Friday January 31 2020, @08:26PM   
from the Paging-Dr-Grey dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Cell phone advertisment Cell phone advertisment (Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Friday January 31 2020, @11:22PM (1 child)

  by SomeGuy (5632) on Friday January 31 2020, @11:22PM (#952044)

  "Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light"

  Yay! A patients life was saved by almighty mobile phones! (no it wasn't but that is all many idiots looking at this clickbait will see). All praise mobile phones and their ultra-bright LED backlights! (Stare at them until your eyes melt) Doesn't that just make you want to run out and buy one or feel good about the one you have? You might just save someones life with your glorious mobile phone! From now on, cell phones will be used in place of proper emergency lighting and generators! They are just that awesomely useful!

  *Facepalm*.

  "It goes to show what ingenuity can bring when a need calls for it."
  No, it is called making do with what you have during a major fuckup. If someone there had a pocket flashlight on their keychain and used that instead, would this even be a story? No. Why? Because cell phones!

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• Re:Cell phone advertisment (Score: 1, Troll) by barbara hudson on Saturday February 01 2020, @12:08AM

  by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday February 01 2020, @12:08AM (#952066) Journal

  The hype is even worse. I expect most people have gone to emergency and some of you have had minor injuries treated right in the examination room. Removing a scalp lesion and a couple of stitches isn't done in a operating room no matter how gold plated your health plan. They canceled two patients who were heading for operating rooms, but that's just standard practice when the mains goes out. -

  To rewrite the Story - patient being treated for a scalp lesion in an examination room, doctor cut out the lesion, lights went out when he was putting stitches in, nurse came in and used her phone light, other nurses came in with flashlights, patient got stitches, lights came back on. Turns out examination rooms have lower priority for generator power, but they also get generator power when the low priority generator kicks in. OMG examination rooms in hospitals aren't top priority! Make clickbait story. Get cursed at for letting this shit through.

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