It’s easy to get sick in a hospital, but we often forget that our phones are something we never view as “dirty”. Are our hands ever clean? When we wash our hands, and then touch our phone it basically defeats the purpose. Now thinking of this in the hospital setting could be tragic. If the nurse is going to patient to patient touching doorknobs then allowing the patient to touch the same tablet, they put their life at risk. What if the patient has an immune deficiency and then they are exposed to a bacteria on the screen of the tablet. Tablets can put a picture in front of the patient, but we may be risking more than that by the spreading of bacteria and diseases.
“Do Cell Phones Spread Infections in Hospitals” by Cameron Scott, is an article