On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:31, STANLEY DOORE wrote: > Paul, you have identified a critical area of discontinuity where the > medical industry uses the SI for medicine and people use English units to > describe their weight. (mass). > > This is an area needs to be resolved now. It would help people to > understand metric and reduce their fear of it when they give their > dimensions (height and weight) in SI. This would be a major advance in > adopting the SI.
Last year I told my doctor my height and mass in metric. He asked me what they are in other units. As he practices Chinese medicine, and I don't know Chinese units, I was stumped ;) Most of the people I hang around with on RFT quote their mass in pounds. A few quote kilograms. How can we get people to weigh themselves in kilograms? Btw, I had an opportunity to explain one of the more obscure SI units, the gray. Someone was worried that an airport X-ray machine would irradiate seeds or probiotic capsules. On Tuesday 15 May 2007 15:08, Remek Kocz wrote: > One particular area where it would be extremely easy is with body > temperature. It's a number that really exists in isolation--no one relates > it to outdoor temperature or anything else for that matter. Weight and > height are another issue, much more difficult to convince the general > public to adopt, but in the name of reducing medical errors, it could be > done. I do relate body temperature to outdoor temperature. I know that if the outdoor temperature is 37 or more, I must drink a lot of water to keep myself between 36.0 and 36.8. Pierre
