My company's Administrator (Gerri) just had surgery to fuse three vertebrae. When I visited her in the University of Utah hospital, I noticed a white board inside the entrance to the Neuro Critical Care unit, which listed each room, patient's name, and patient's height and weight, and other info.
The heights and weights were in centimeters and kilograms! No colloquial units. Not only that, but Gerri informed them that they had her weight wrong -- she knew the correct number since the digital scales in QSI's shower rooms are all metric. Of course, the vanity of the female half of the species is at play here: they had her at an outrageous 52 kg (taken from an older doctor's chart) -- she let them know she only weighs 47 kg! Jim Elwell Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
