I for sure would like to know how many people die per year from being administered the wrong drug dosage based on incorrect conversions from pounds to kilograms and if society in a whole would rather change all medical communications to metric only or just accept the reality that non-metric usage is a killer.
Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Hudnall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 2007-03-07 16:39 Subject: [USMA:38096] Re: Anti-metric bias in schools > If you could provide contact information about your school, I'm sure that a > few of us on this listserve that work in metricated industries would be happy > to write a quick letter to school administration. Universities are somewhat > attentive to input received from industry, as to what things should be > expected from graduates to be successful in their jobs after graduation, and > how competitive their graduates would be in today's market place. > > Working in the biotech/piopharmaceutical industry, I can say that graduates > would need to have a good understanding of the metric system in order to be > successful since we use ONLY the metric system. This is true whether you are > in the lab, purchasing, manufacturing, or IT. If your university hopes to > graduate students with skills relevant to the 21st century's hottest job > growth areas, they need to train students to be comfortable working with the > metric system EXCLUSIVELY. I know that as a manager, I could not in good > conscience hire someone that can not work or will not work in metric > EXCLUSIVELY. > > > Scott ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091
