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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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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 01 2020, @12:51AM
the sentence part:
"the hospital's electricity did not stabilise for another 15 minutes" really shows how brain washed some people are about electricity.
unless the hospital itself had a SOURCE of generation for electricity (which would make the this news report a non-starter) which was malfunctioning, the hospital didn't have electricity.
so to not continuing to make it seem that consumers (that includes hospitals) are entitled to electricity by some devine law the sentence, rephrased would be more accurate:
" the electricity supply to the hospital did not stabilise for another 15 min".
it is misunderstandings like this in news reports that leads to a wrong understanding of electricity in the population and i am sure plays into the hands of public utilities that want to keep people from really becoming sources of electrcity (*hint*hint* look up, past the smog on a sunny day).