Good luck, mate.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:47407] Using metric at the doctor
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:37:01 -0400
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.
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