I don't know the entire story, but my wife is a cardiac ICU nurse and says magnets are part of the normal procedures for dealing with ICDs. They'll slap a magne

I don't know the entire story, but my wife is a cardiac ICU nurse and says magnets are part of the normal procedures for dealing with ICDs. They'll slap a magnet on the chest of an ICD patient to inhibit the device if it malfunctions. All I'm saying from that is while a lot of comments around here are calling it design flaws, I'm pretty sure to a certain extent its a design decision. If you have a patient on the stretcher and you need to disable that thing now then a magnet seems like a perfectly reasonable & safe thing to use. Requiring specialized devices that might not be available at all times seems like the design flaw. Asking patients with specific health needs to avoid certain activities/devices is not a huge stretch.