Electricity can be a hazard in hospitals, particularly to patients who are connected to electrodes, such as an ECG. For example, suppose that the motor of a motorized bed shorts out to the bed frame, and the bed frame's connection to a ground has broken (or was not there in the first place). If a nurse touches the bed and the patient at the same time, she becomes a conductor and a complete circuit can be made through the patient to ground through the ECG apparatus. This is shown schematically in Fig. 19-48, whereR1 =1.0? 104 andR2 =2.4? 104. Calculate the current through the patient.
