Scales at Carle Clinic in Urbana, IL have an electronic push button which 
enable measurements of body mass in kilograms.

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:11:00 -0400
>From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[email protected]>  
>Subject: [USMA:46090] RE: Metric-only doctor visit  
>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
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>I go to my doctor, and give the staff my weight in kilograms, and the nurse
>takes out a calculator and converts it.  Annoying.
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>I'm going this Saturday; let's see what happens.
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>Carleton
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>Of Paul Trusten
>Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 16:12
>To: U.S. Metric Association
>Subject: [USMA:46089] Metric-only doctor visit
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>Without any fanfare at my doctor visit this morning, I asked the nurse  
>if she could take my temperature in degrees Celsius. Equally without  
>fanfare, she did.
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>The mechanical scale weighed me in pounds, but I calculated the result  
>in kilograms and talked kilograms only when I met with my dictor.  
>Without fanfare, he listened.
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>Paul Trusten
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