Pierre, In what State did you visit your substitute doctor?
I’m surprised that the scale for height was in millimeters rather than in centimeters! Usually, a nurse rather that a doctor does the routine bodily measurements. Eugene Mechtly > On Jan 19, 2016, at 2:19 PM, Pierre Abbat <p...@bezitopo.org> wrote: > > I went to the doctor yesterday, many months after my last visit. (Not my > usual > doctor, but someone else in the same office.) She agreed that it is absurd to > measure patients' mass and temperature in backward units, but said it's what > the state requires. > > * What part of the government sets the units used in medicine? > > *Are the measuring instruments settable to measure in metric? I know that the > thing for measuring height has a millimeter scale. > > *Is the software set up so that data previously entered in old units can be > displayed in metric by just flipping a switch? > > Pierre > -- > li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
