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Originally Posted by Salu
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6524545.stm
Our Trust has this installed and all I ever hear are complaints about it. About extortionate charges mostly and complaints about having to pay to watch TV.
Anyone else have experience of them? Have you stayed in hospital and have used them?
What do you think ought to happen when in hospital though? Free TV & low call charges? Use your own mobiles?
Actually mobiles don't really have as much effect on hospital equipment as you may expect. Sure some things are effected and some fire alarms but not to the point that you need to turn your phone off whenever you are in the vicinity of a hospital. In fact you have to be within 1 metre of the device that a mobile may effect for any effect to be noticed.
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yes i have had a very bad experience with these bedsise phone/tv.
i was admitted with a suspect cardiac arrest and spent 5 days in intensive care, on the last evening i was informed at about 12 midnight that i also had suspected liver cancer and transfered to another ward about 1am in the morning.
i was desperate to talk to my wife, there was hardly any staff on duty at that particular time because of a local flu epidemic. a nurse informed me later that the phone is at the entrance of the ward, it turned out to be a phone/tv card machine for patientline and i didnt have any money nor credit card with me. well in the end i was so distressed that about 4am in the morning i packed my bags and walked out of the hospital and hitched a lift home, the police arrived about 1 hour later lol. i can only describe the experience as the worst moment of my life! btw the liver cancer turned out to be gall bladder probs!!