Go metric!
Dear medical doctors, especially anesthesiologists, of the United States:
May I suggest (respectfully of course) that you review the metric system? I mainly am concerned about length measurements. You all seem to be fairly conversant in weight and volume metric measures.
You see, it's important to me because the next time I am interpreting for you and your Spanish-speaking patient, and you ask him or her how tall they are, and they give you an answer in centimeters: I don't want to have to feel embarrassed for you when you flash that deer-in-the-headlights facial expression indicating you don't know what they are talking about, and perhaps more importantly, your patient will have even more confidence in your expertise and experience as a physician and scientist. (Are medical doctors scientists? Should they not use the metric system?)
While I'm on the subject, I think we should switch to the metric system for once and all. I know there was a push for it in the 70s that failed. I don't know the history behind that but I guess a bunch of old people didn't like the idea. Hopefully they are mostly dead by now.
I mean, it's important to me that we switch to metric, but not as important as protecting the Social Security system or electing a Democrat president the next go-round. I'd rank it just below legalizing marijuana. I think we should do it but it's not important enough to make me want to be an activist for it. Now that I think of it maybe if we did legalize marijuana it would help people put the metric system into practice. I mean, we all know any stoner can tell you about how many ounces (or more precisely what fraction of an ounce) is 3.5 and 7 grams.
But that's neither here nor there.
I should be reading a bunch of crap for my "methods" (of teaching college Spanish) class, and I will be soon enough. (Can you tell I'm not looking forward to it?)
Current Music: None. Listening, sort of, to news on Galavisión. Talking about some crap with Mexican politics. Despite my high (and well documented) proficiency in Spanish I still can't follow what's on the news very well unless I give it my undivided attention.
May I suggest (respectfully of course) that you review the metric system? I mainly am concerned about length measurements. You all seem to be fairly conversant in weight and volume metric measures.
You see, it's important to me because the next time I am interpreting for you and your Spanish-speaking patient, and you ask him or her how tall they are, and they give you an answer in centimeters: I don't want to have to feel embarrassed for you when you flash that deer-in-the-headlights facial expression indicating you don't know what they are talking about, and perhaps more importantly, your patient will have even more confidence in your expertise and experience as a physician and scientist. (Are medical doctors scientists? Should they not use the metric system?)
While I'm on the subject, I think we should switch to the metric system for once and all. I know there was a push for it in the 70s that failed. I don't know the history behind that but I guess a bunch of old people didn't like the idea. Hopefully they are mostly dead by now.
I mean, it's important to me that we switch to metric, but not as important as protecting the Social Security system or electing a Democrat president the next go-round. I'd rank it just below legalizing marijuana. I think we should do it but it's not important enough to make me want to be an activist for it. Now that I think of it maybe if we did legalize marijuana it would help people put the metric system into practice. I mean, we all know any stoner can tell you about how many ounces (or more precisely what fraction of an ounce) is 3.5 and 7 grams.
But that's neither here nor there.
I should be reading a bunch of crap for my "methods" (of teaching college Spanish) class, and I will be soon enough. (Can you tell I'm not looking forward to it?)
Current Music: None. Listening, sort of, to news on Galavisión. Talking about some crap with Mexican politics. Despite my high (and well documented) proficiency in Spanish I still can't follow what's on the news very well unless I give it my undivided attention.
posted by Model Consumer at 06:46
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