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To: steve86
None of them are still alive to make the report.

Seriously, not everyone with a pacemaker is old. I have a friend who got one in his 40s. Microwaves generally don't bother pacemakers anymore because newer models have better shielding, but large industrial motors have enough of a magnetic field to affect pacemakers.

53 posted on 06/19/2008 2:14:48 PM PDT by Amelia
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To: Amelia

I have a step daughter who got a pacemaker at age 1.

The joke was that the car killed them, nothing to do with their age.


56 posted on 06/19/2008 2:18:11 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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To: Amelia

“Microwaves generally don’t bother pacemakers anymore because newer models have better shielding, but large industrial motors have enough of a magnetic field to affect pacemakers”

We can’t run our Autoclave in the office when there is a patient with a pacemaker. I feel bad for anyone with one of those things.


106 posted on 06/19/2008 4:08:25 PM PDT by NoGrayZone (A Lesser Evil Is Still Evil.)
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