Experts Recommend Less Cell Phone Use
GUPTA: And we are back with HOUSE CALL. And a new report in the Senate hearing this week on whether your cell phone could increase your cancer risk. This report came from the Environmental Working Group, and it warned specifically about radiation emissions, has a best and a worst list of cell phones, BlackBerrys and similar devices as well, they're ranked according to their emissions. Now, the group does not claim these devices cause cancer, only that the science is not conclusive. That it is linked to brain cancer or that it is not. So, basically the message is just try and use some caution. The Senate subcommittee heard similar testimony this week with experts recommending people use their cell phone less, keep them away from their body and limit children's use as well. Not easy to do if you're in the business that we are. You know, something that I've been talking about for some time, is simply just using a wired ear piece like this. All my producers and everyone around here knows that this is how I talk on the phone. I think it's just a prudent way to go. And for a list of cell phone emissions, you can also go to HOUSE CALL Web site and look under this week's links. As you know, I'm just back from Afghanistan. It was an amazing trip. I met some amazing people as well who are fighting to save lives in some pretty harsh conditions. I had the chance to talk with one combat flight medic who specializes in something known as hoist maneuvers, basically being dangled from a helicopter and dropped into tough areas to rescue the injured. I have to share this story he told me where he ended up saving 12 troops. Take a listen.</s>STAFF SGT. PETER ROHRS, U.S. ARMY COMBAT FIGHT MEDIC: A number of patients and</s>GUPTA: What's going through your head? I mean, how worried are you really, honestly?</s>ROHRS: Doc, if I stopped to think about it before I did it, I probably wouldn't do it. As what sane individual says, I'm going to stay here in the middle of this very precarious situation unarmed with a bunch of wounded people and the enemy knows where you're at and they're going to continue to shoot at you.</s>GUPTA: You taken fire?</s>ROHRS: We did have one individual who tried to attempt to charge the position. And myself and one of infantrymen made a decision that he was only going to get so close before we actually neutralized him as a threat. And so, he got a little bit too close. Infantrymen engaged the target and him and I went out and searched him, brought him back and then I treated him for a gunshot wound in the abdomen.</s>GUPTA: Did you hesitate? Did you worry? I mean, is that strange in any way?</s>ROHRS: I probably worried right up until the point where we took his rifle away from him. And then it was -- when he was no longer a threat, he just became another patient.</s>GUPTA: You didn't have to stay in that landing zone -- and you could have left?</s>ROHRS: Who would have treated the patients? You know, I'm probably my own worst critic and I would have beat myself up pretty good if I left and something would happen because I wasn't there to do something simple.</s>GUPTA: Did you think you were going to die?</s>ROHRS: No. I don't know if it's because I had just didn't think about it, but I was pretty shaken up afterwards when the adrenalin stops.</s>GUPTA: That's amazing. I mean, people risking their lives to save others. And Staff Sergeant Peter Rohrs, he received the Silver Star for his bravery that day. President Bush presented the medal to Rohrs at Fort Bragg back in 2008. Did you know you can over-hydrate yourself? We don't talk about this very much. We'll tell you how much fluid your body really needs. And also, news on a diet that helps control hunger and blood sugar. Plus, there's a cutting edge surgical procedure out there, implanting a tooth to save someone's eyesight. You got to see this. You're watching HOUSE CALL.