Mark. I agree with you about the rounding issue, but every driver
license I have ever seen (Canada, Europe, Mexico et cetera) shows
height in cm only, never meter point whatever. (I am 181 cm tall and
weigh 95 kg.)
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:51:24 -0500
From: Henschel Mark <mw-hensch...@neiu.edu>
Reply-To: mw-hensch...@neiu.edu
Subject: [USMA:53154] RE: my letter to Taylor Precision Products
(sent as a consumer)
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>, "mechtly,
eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu>
I had a doctor's appointment last week and insisted I get the
measurements in metric units. They said I was 170.9 centimeters high,
which is actually too tall. I am actually shorter than that, so I'm
thinking they just converted rather than writing down the information
in SI units directly. I should be closer to 1.68 meters, but the mass
was a bit better, 97.1 kg.
I would think rounding off to the nearest kilogram ought to be good
enough, so I don't understand the need for the .1, unless of course,
this is yet another conversion.
They also gave my temperature as 36.7, well, I might let this slide,
the Celsius degree is bigger than the Fahrenheit degree, so it might
make sense to use a decimal point herer. What do you think?
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu>
Date: Sunday, August 11, 2013 11:11 am
Subject: [USMA:53151] RE: my letter to Taylor Precision Products (sent
as a consumer)
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
Cc: "mechtly, eugene a" <mech...@illinois.edu>
kPa,
The nurse in my doctor's office *always* measures and records my
mass in kilograms and my height in centimeters.
The digital file of my own personal medical records at the Carle
Clinic, which I can access by password, is also 100% in SI units
although not always in the most coherent of SI units. e.g. centimeters
rather than meters, and grams or milliliters per deciliter
of blood serum, but I don't complain about the absence of the most
coherent of SI units!
You should persuade your doctors and nurses to *upgrade to SI units*
instead of complaining that they measure and record in USC units!
Eugene Mechtly
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FROM: Kilopascal [kilopas...@cox.net]
SENT: Sunday, August 11, 2013 7:39 AM
TO: U.S. Metric Association
SUBJECT: [USMA:53147] my letter to Taylor Precision Products (sent
as a consumer)
When I go to the doctor, he doesn't weight me. His nurse or
assistant does. She asks me what my height and weight are and when I
give it to her in metres and kilograms, she asks me again what it is
in USC. When I say I don't
know, she puts me on the scale and reads my weight and height and
records that.
I'm sure the majority of doctors, if not all, in the US measure and
record patients height and weight in USC, never metric. That is why
there are dosing errors and will continue to be. These dosing errors
are not enough to
force the doctors and nurses to measure and record in metric. I
believe Americans would chose death and injury due to misdosing over
having to use metric. Otherwise this problem would have been
corrected ages ago instead of perpetuating.
Luckily for me I am not in need of any medications. So I'm not a
candidate for misdosing.
[USMA:53147]
> MY LETTER TO TAYLOR PRECISION PRODUCTS (SENT AS A CONSUMER)
Paul Trusten
Sat, 10 Aug 2013
18:31:17 -0700
I am delighted with my purchase of your Taylor Digital Bath Scale,
Model 7562!
It is an attractive addition to my bathroom, and I appreciate the
LED readout
so the scale can be read in any light. However, I was disappointed
to discover
that the measurement units defaulted to pounds, and I had to stop
and set it to
read out in kilograms. I was born and raised right here in the USA,
but I think
metric is the way to go now. Why not have your scale start there?
And, it also
makes it easier for doctors to dose some medications if people can
conveniently
report their weight to them in kilograms.
Thanks,
Paul Trusten
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