Text 11159, 63 rader
Skriven 2014-03-21 14:48:11 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11059 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: metric  was: dishonesty
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 19 Mar 14  11:34:17 <=-

 NB>  DD>> My croaker records both the KG and the LB/oz numbers.
 NB>>> I suspect that's the scientific influence... I think most of my
 NB>>> docs also record both numbers... probably mostly in deference to
 NB>>> the patient who mostly doesn't think in metric...  ;)
 RH>> Not generally. Some of my doctors use metric, others use English.
 NB>> That might be a regional thing, too...

 RH> UNC is a teaching hospital and uses metrics; my PCM is not affiliated
 RH> with them and uses English.
 
Around here, most of the doctors are affiliated with teaching hospitals
(seems that most of the hospitals hereabouts consider themselves
teaching hospitals of one sort or another, even if Strong and Higland
are the only ones directly connected with UR School of Medicine)... and
my PCP is actually employed by the Unity System...  :)

 RH> Yes, and it gave me almost an extra quarter yard of fabric. Can make
 RH> the difference in having just enough for a project or not quite enough.

Quite.

 NB>> so close to Canada, but temps on TV here tend to be reported in both F
 NB>> and in C degrees... 

 RH> Sounds logical--you are near the border so signals are picked up on
 RH> either side of it.
 
Yup... 

 NB>> I suspect that snowfall is reported in inches rather than cm, just to
 NB>> keep people from getting even more discouraged...  (G)

 RH> Especially after the winter we've had! Had an ice storm Monday night
 RH> but not enough to do major harm, just major inconveniences.

Indeed.  :)  Yeah, most of what we've been getting is just some sort of
inconveniences... except for the storm we got middle of last week, which
was probably the most snowfall in a single storm all winter for us... :)
Finally had a storm that shut down everything for two days... (G)  No
major harm, just the same...  :)

 NB>> That can be more useful...  depending on what your measurement cups
 NB>> and spoons etc are calibrated in...  ;)   My Tupperware pitchers
 NB>> and the pyrex ones have both oz and ml on them... makes an ongoing
 NB>> side-by-side easy...  ;)

 RH> I bought a set of metric measuring spoons/cups while in Germany. A lot
 RH> of their dry ingredients are measured by weight so we have a scale
 RH> that measures weight and volume in both metric and English. Handy when
 RH> I pull out a German cook book (have some written in German as well). I
 RH> also calculate a lot of my food servings by the gram for figuring carbs
 RH> as it's more precise than ounces.

I have a food scale, but I've not used it in so long that I forget what
it's calibrated in...  :) 

ttyl          neb

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