Is it really a bad idea to use a cell phone in a hospital?

They always have the “no cell phone” signs…but people do it all the time, and nothing is ever said. When my father-in-law was in the hospital the nurses took his cell phone TO him.

Also, if you can’t talk on the cell phones, is it OK to text? I don’t think so. The same technology is at work whether you’re texting or talking. If talking is going to disrupt something, so will texting.