Texting 'is a sign of recovery'

Doctors at some of the UK's busiest music festivals say a young patient's ability to use a mobile may be a good test of how ill they are. The BBC reports.

Each year hundreds of festivalgoers who have either fainted or suffered panic attacks are treated in medical tents.

Medical teams noticed that as soon as they were well enough to text their friends, they were generally well enough to rejoin the action.

The test could work in busy A&E units, they told the British Medical Journal.

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