I see that the US gets slowly but surely civilized like Europe! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 8:46 PM Subject: [USMA:19997] metric in hospitals
> 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 >
