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Hospitals Try to Bring Down the Decibels

Saturday, May 20, 2006 9:42:41 PM
By KAREN MATTHEWS

Elodia Mercier holds a device used to measure noise March 24, 2006, at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx borough of New York. In an effort to promote more silence, device is used monthly to measure noise at the hospital. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)NEW YORK (AP) - The sound echoed throughout Montefiore Medical Center, like somebody pounding dozens of nails around the clock.

Wham! Wham! Wham!

The source was actually a pill banger, used to crush medications for geriatric patients who can't swallow whole pills.


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