Hi Horst.
Why am I nodding in agreement rather than laughing....or crying?
Cheers
David
---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 12:05:55 +1100, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Friday 03 November 2006 09:13, David More wrote:
>> Oliver,
>>
>> I am stunned and deeply saddened to find any information in this domain (i.e e-Health) should be classified in any form.
>>
>
> I don't think it is about clasifying information at all. It is about hiding lack of information.
>
> I imagine it like this:
>
> Chairman: looks like we blew x Million dollars in x years. Time for reporting. What do we have to show for it?
>
> (shuffling of feet, audible blushing of faces, sudden interest in the carpet pattern or ceiling pattern developed and demonstrated by all around)
>
> Chairman: Well?
>
> Somebdoy: Uh..., ahem, duh, ...
>
> Somebdoy else: shouldn't that question be put to the reporting subcommittee?
>
> (smiles light up all around. Sudden attention towards the chairman)
>
> Chairman: we haven't got a reporting subcommittee, do we? This has to be investigated. I propose forming an investing committee on this, with an initial
> budget of x, and a timeframe of x. Everyone in favour?
>
> [3 months of haggling out who gets to be the chair of the investigating subcommittee pass, the committee comes into existence, and after the 5th meeting in
> Timbuktu (they couldn't find another place that gave as many frequent flyer points to all involved, so it had to be Timbuktu) they report back that they
> suggest a reporting subcommittee should be formed ...]
>
> Chairman: well, the report of the reporting subcomittee please!
>
> Spokesman of tehe Reporting Subcommittee (henceforth named SOTRSC): our research has shon that so far we have
> - had umpteenth meetings (248 page report ofn the quality of finger food and coffee served during those attached)
> - produced x pages of meaningless glossy pamphlets (called "reports", pallett of samples stored in the garage, too heavy to bring nto thebuilding) - repeated
> x suggestions made in the previous decade by numerous predecessors (see attached folders I - XCVII)
>
> Chairman: you are telling me we have nothing to show for it?
>
> SOTRSC: That's not what I said. I said ... (see pages 48 - 738 of the minutes)
>
> Chairman: Aha.
>
> Bright Guy Form the Backrow (BGFTBR): What if we just cover it up? Make this whole emarrassing thing disappear by classifying any information about it?
>
> Chairman: I didn't hear that. Nobody did. The minutes don't show it. So what is this nonsense somebody didn't babble about? (some shuffling noises while two
> men in black drag the gagged BGFTBR out ofthe back door. He never existed anyway.
>
> ..
>
> Horst
>
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