Re:Hospitals. (Score 2, Interesting)

Hello from the random Hospital geek!

We actually have a mix of pagers, IP phones and Blackberries, as we cant buy new pagers anymore. In a hospital context the internal paging system is useless as you can only page someone an internal phone number (which is no good as theres no way of prioritising the message.) Where as the mobile phones of the crash team all ring with the location when a crash is called, and non urgent stuff is handled by emails/the IP phones (some of which are wireless.)

Most modern hospital gear is very well shielded against interference, and anyway the PETRA radios carried by paramedics are more likely to cause damage, so our hospitals rule is its fine, as long as you move away from any equipment to answer calls.