This works because Steve Jobs sprinkles every iPhone with a little bit of his own personal holiness.

edosan

@OG512: Moses phone has 4G, communicates with god, and then gets pissed at you when it catches you fucking around in your room, and then makes you piece together two broken stone tablets and then you have to wander for 40 years in an Arizona desert. Now that's a contract that I will not be buying into.

atuck

@92BuickLeSabre: haha, so true.

11hawkinst

@Dunny0: sedation avoids the "Noooooo I want my mommy!"

Usually it's lithium, well thats from what I know.

Castle1914

@xcharliemx:
it sedates them? that's not the iphone, my friend; that's the roofies.

DeCerbo

Wait until I come out with the "Moses" phone!
It'll conquer mass armies and spread vast seas!
**looks up to avoid any lightening strikes**
WHEW!

OG512

Wait, you have to sedate them before you knock them out?
Why not just knock them out?

I'm confused.

Dunny0

@92BuickLeSabre:

Wiser words were never spoken. I just wish it had the same calming effect on angered partners...

"here honey, watch this" [sneaks off to be with the guys]

YamIinLawSchool

My iPhone has the same effect on the ladies.

xcharliemx

Just wants to keep getting free stuff from apple.
He'll probablly want a $3,000 Macbook, 'cause "the music that comes from it's speakers relaxes the patients"

Isoko

Why would you want to avoid sedatives? I thought people played video games and used iPhones because they couldn't get sedatives, not the other way around

Munch

just hook up a PS3 and Xbox 360. end of story!

OG512

ROFL

Sean Robertson

Remember the guy at the carnival who pokes things through his arms and tongue? He's doing the same thing: the power of concentration and distraction can do amazing things to the level of pain that you feel.

Once again, science is "discovering" something that we knew all along...

blue moon

@TheTick:
Gameboy = Old Testament
JesusPhone = New Testament
Amen.

92BuickLeSabre

what ever happened to a good ol' fashioned sleeperhold?

DeCerbo

There was a previous study like this, involving the Gameboy. Kids were more relaxed pre-op if they played GB...even more than if their parents were there to comform them.

TheTick

BLah!

pradster

just like my vet, he gives the treat to the dog and at same time he gives the shots, distract the patient to give the
meds.

tomaartist

@OG512: If you think PS3 and XBox are relaxing, try watching some mofos playing Halo. See how sedate that shit gets.

DaOtter

@Clare: A Phillies fan eh? Me too haha......nice to see a fellow phils fan

superbryant88

@bucho54:

No, but I hear Moto is going to launch the "Golden Calf" for all the Apple haters out there.

av8thor

I'm sure I'd be in the 15 percent who still needed a sedative even after they got to play with the iPhone. Needle sticks make me faint.

Cool idea, though.

Clare

As a future med student, I guess this means that the hospital should write off my 3G iPhone as a necessary healthcare expenditure! AWESOME!

dagamer34

@atuck: LOL

OG512

@bucho54: It will look like a wooden staff, but when you're not expecting it...it will turn into a snake!

92BuickLeSabre

Todays surgery brought to you by Apple, and the letter 'i'...I can see the sponsors lining up now, surgery blankets provided by L.L. Bean, surgeons gowns provided by Nike, we've just solved the healthcare crisis in this country!!!

Kaspir

@ludwigk: To answer my own question, it might be because the iPhone has a built-in speaker, and the iPod Touch don't.

ludwigk

Shouldn't he be using an iPod Touch? Costs less, smaller, bigger storage, and no CDMA interference with their sensitive, life-saving, medical widgets.

It even has less buttons, so its, um, sleeker.

But yeah, any decent PMP will do this afaict.

ludwigk

Leave it to Apple to create a product capable of being sanitized according to hospital standards...

bottlerockets

@OG512: So, will the Moses phone come with a stylus that looks like a wooden staff?

bucho54

@makanai:

It's common knowledge within most younger docs/nurses...it's the old timers that poo poo this for one reason or another.

My dentist had one of those eyeglass LCD things hooked up to a portable DVD player back in 2003, but I doubt most docs could figure out how to plug the A/V out on a DVD player to the glasses... Plus they'd send it in for warranty work every time the batteries died lol.

LUV2CattleCall

@Dunny0: Knock them out? Ooooh! That makes more sense. I thought they're using the iPhone in place of general anaesthesia.

ripfire4

"But how does it work?"

The iPhone is about the right size and heft for a kid-sized brick, and you know, people calm right down when you smack them on the head with a brick...

Guy-Fawkes

This is really nothing new is it? My dentist has various game systems in his waiting room and TVs with satellite and DVD players (bring your own DVD) in the consult rooms. The combination calms down kids and denta-phobes a lot.

I don't mean to knock the article, but I thought in the medical community this was "common knowledge." Not being in the medical community, I have no idea what is common knowledge, so I don't mean this as a rhetorical question or being a snarky know-it-all.

makanai

Obviously this needn't be an iPhone by any stretch of the imagination; however, it might be relevant in light of the fact that one (e.g., the doc) might always have an iPhone handy by virtue of it being a (i)Phone, compared to other devices.

I know that I don't carry around my PSP just for that moment I need to have my kid shut the F up for a minute or two, but I certainly have my iPhone handy at all times. And indeed, my iPhone is coming in handy more and more frequently in the recent months for just this purpose with my 4.5 yr old son (in the car, at the doctor's waiting room, etc.)

Dearhaw

My kids would take that iPhone and shove it up the doctor's [insert favorite spot here].

In all seriousness, this is a good idea, although the concept of distracting kids has been around for as long as there have been kids. Whether it be with candy, cards, TV show, or iPhone, ultimately it all (hopefully) has the same result.

Monty

@DeCerbo: HAH!! give this man a star.

sangarts2

@92BuickLeSabre:
[tbn0.google.com]

Coleco Pocket Quarterback: Old Testiment
Gameboy: New Testament
JesusPhone: Armageddon/Anti-Christ

One2ManyCords

docs know distracting kids has this effect, its just finding something LOTS of kids like without having a toy store in the office. They probably also like it because its "the iphone" and get to hold it, which is different than "just a DVD player". I bet half the effect is just buzz from holding something even their parents probably dont get to use.

rowdybow

@xcharliemx:
so you dont have to sedate them before you take them back to your place?

smooth

yablunk

I have to say the kid getting knocked out was freeking creepy looking. Like "look at the iPhone, shiny! GAAAAHHHH DEATH POISEN!"

xanderjanz

wait... we're praising someone for distributing copyrighted content to 450 people?

(shhh)

danishh

@atuck: Well, that the MosesPhone makes you wander in the desert for 40 years tells you one thing: It too has no GPS capability.

ps61318

Personally, I'm actually waiting for the JesusDiazPhone. Better looking interface, more compelling content, much cheaper.

and visual voicemail, of course.

ps61318

Not wanting sedatives? So that's what's wrong with kids these days!

hypereric

this is ridiculously awesome

Shockage

just give em w33d.. that will calm them down muy bueno w/o having to soil your fingers with iShit

VENAT0R