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Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light

posted by martyb on Friday January 31 2020, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
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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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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday January 31 2020, @11:15PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Friday January 31 2020, @11:15PM (#952038) Journal

    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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