Best of luck, Carleton! Hope all turns out well for you ... Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 4:37:01 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [USMA:47407] Using metric at the doctor
The past few weeks, I’ve been seeing doctors more often than normal, as my urologist discovered some prostate cells that don’t belong there and wants to take the whole thing out. There’s been a lot of pre-surgical work done by my regular doctor and a cardiologist as well. Invariably, they ask for my “weight” (sorry) and height. I give it to them as 178 cm and 102 kg, indicating that this is the only way I know either. · The urologist’s nurse took the information with no comment, and just wrote down what I said. · My regular doctor took it, but converted. · The cardiologist’s nurse took it, and converted. · The catheterization nurse (male) was visibly upset, and made a point of using his iPhone to convert to colonial units. I commented to him that this was a medical procedure and I thought all medical procedures and records used metric only (in a manner that expressed an opinion that if they don’t, they should be). I used to be with Kaiser Permanente through 2006, until my employer took away that option. In the last couple of years they were converting all their records to metric, if I recall. Still a long way to go. Carleton P.S. The operation will be in a couple of weeks.
