With nothing much to talk about, I paged through some photos The Pony has sent me. You've seen all his culinary efforts, and his injuries, and his animal-attraction companions on his delivery route. But here's one I think you missed. It's from early this year, or perhaps late last year, when The Pony was cooling his hooves in the waiting room for a routine medical appointment.
That's a cute little fellow. Not at all likely to rub somebody the wrong way. I imagine he's sound-activated, and does a little dance.
What concerns me more is the sign behind him. How is a cell phone dangerous to a phlebotomist? It can't cause a force-field that prevents a needle from breaking the skin. It can't deactivate the needle. A needle doesn't send out an electrical impulse that might be disrupted.
What in the NOT-HEAVEN, people? Are roving gangs of blood-specimen-givers pummeling the phlebotomist with their cell phones? How is this a safety issue? Surely nobody is trying to take a picture of the puncture! Who wants to see THAT? I suppose somebody could drop a cell phone onto the hands of the phlebotomist. That might smart, but it's not a maiming force.
I can only presume that perhaps a butter-fingered cell phone user might possibly drop it on the needle and cause an inadvertent puncture. Though it would seem that such a scenario would only jab the needle a little deeper into the blood-giver, and not make that needle reverse direction and stab the blood-drawer.
It's kind of far-fetched. I've never seen a sign asking people not to flail and faint. Which seems more likely to happen, resulting in a needle-stick for the phlebotomist.
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Probably they're worried about some sort of interference with their machinery, like in the old days you had to turn your phones off on planes in case the frequencies got confused and the plane would crash or go to Florida instead of London maybe. I don't actually remember the reasoning behind the rules, but I'd say that sign is way out-dated.
River,
That's what I don't understand. There is no machinery involved in a blood draw. The sample is sent off for analysis. So I can only assume that people are trying to record it, and are butterfingers with their phone, possibly causing the phlebotomist a stick with the needle.
Interesting, Like you I cannot imagine a scenario that would result in njury to the person sticking a needle into the cell phone user's vein. Maybe the sign is meant to ave you wondering and not notice the stick of the needle!
Kathy,
It's not like a cell phone has a TASER function! You'd think they'd want people to be distracted by the phone, and not flinching or whining at the thought of their blood being sucked out.
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