I would be willing to bet five centidollars that she would have
immediately understood "centigrade thermometer". I've heard doctors and
nurses use that old name many times.
Jim
"Hu, Alfred" wrote:
>
> If you think that US travellers arrriving in Canada during the summer with
> skis and winter clothing is hilarious, I just had an incident with the nurse
> who took my temperature at a doctor's clinic last week.
>
> I simply asked the nurse if they ever used Celsius thermometers if a patient
> requested it. To my surprise she did not even know what Celsius is and she
> is an RN. I was going to explain to her that its 'another' scale where
> water boils at 100 and freezes at 0 but I simply
> decided to drop it and not waste any further precious time.
>
> Just can't believe it. How much more inward looking can some people be????
>
> alfred
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