Re:Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old
by elithrar on Thursday May 09, 2013 @07:21PM
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> It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results.
As far as Bloomberg reports. Her father is hinted as being a heart surgeon ("given her father's specialty") but it's never explicitly pointed out in the article.
She's obviously extremely intelligent—and I have no qualms with a 14 yo getting some hints from their parents for a project idea—but the article seems designed to sensationalise an issue that has long existed.
"Apple story == page views".
Re:Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old
by tenderpalms on Thursday May 09, 2013 @08:02PM
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Dad is a cardiac electrophysiologist.
It was her idea, she concocted the theory, investigation and reported the results. Insofar as she didn't do part of the full experiment, no teenager should be allowed to carry out casual experiments involving shutting off life-support equipment on heart patients - duh, let an adult handle that bit. That she didn't win doesn't mean anything more than the winners were better projects, drama aside.
People DID learn something. Awareness is spreading about the issues of proliferation of magnets strong enough to cause false inputs to implanted medical devices.
The only thing the news got wrong was the subtle jab at Apple, rather than a more neutral reference to the many magnet-containing products which have similar odds of the same problem.