Dear Bruce, You might like to look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_error
It is frightening. I suspect that many of these these unnecessary deaths were measurement errors. My estimate is about 70 % would be of this type. Cutting off the wrong leg probably doesn't kill you but confusing millilitres with microlitres certainly can. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia On 2011/06/28, at 03:13 , [email protected] wrote: > > Medication dosing mix-ups - between teaspoons and tablespoons, milliliters > (mL) and teaspoons, even drops and mL - are much more common than you might > think, and they can lead to serious reactions. Sometimes a doctor accidently > writes the wrong measure. Other times computer prescription processing > technologies, aiming for efficiency, "default" to a particular measure, in > error. > > In one recent case, a family's pharmacist accidentally typed a label that > gave instructions for a sick child to receive 3.5 teaspoonfuls a day of > antibiotic liquid instead of 3.5 mL that the doctor had ordered on the 10-day > prescription sent to the pharmacy. By the fourth day only one teaspoonful was > left in the bottle, so the mother called the pharmacy. Her child has > experienced voluminous amounts of diarrhea, a yeast infection, and possibly a > fungal infection of the vaginal area. > > More at.... > http://articles.philly.com/2011-06-22/news/29690183_1_pesticide-loads-metric-measures-apple-sample > > Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr > Erie PA > Linux and Metric User and Enforcer > > > I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar > energy have you collected today? > Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope > we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I > had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ > Pat Naughtin LCAMS Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
