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Re:Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets by Maxious on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:33AM (#25790181)
The FDA [1] advises "don’t carry the phone in a shirt or jacket pocket directly over the pacemaker." as well as the American Heart Association [2] "Avoid keeping your cell phone in your front chest pocket."

1: https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/cell-phones/... 2: https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/arrhythmia/prevention...

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Re:Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets by foepys on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:40AM (#25790242)
They can advise as much as they want, people just do it anyways.

Same with smoking, drinking, taking drugs, etc.

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Re:Life Saving Therapy Inhibition by Phones Containing Magnets by netsharc on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:11AM (#25791816)
One hopes people with a device keeping them alive would have an incentive to follow instructions, especially if it doesn't involve addictive substances. They also get told to avoid metal detectors, and they know to do this, so it's probably, hopefully, an easy habit to change
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