We were visiting a friend at the hospital a while back, and
an employee pushing a gurney volunteered that he had transported an 1100 pound
man the day before. You read that right. One thousand one hundred pounds. That’s heavier than my whole family. I don’t
think the employee was exaggerating, because, if he was, he would have said
1000, not 1100 lbs. People generally round off when they exaggerate. They don’t
use numbers like 1100.
So, I’m thinking, do the patient files on the hospital computer
even have a four digit field for weight? If the fields only contain 3 digits,
do they just enter his weight at 999 lbs? Or do they admit him as 2 people
maybe and split the weight? Can they refuse to admit him? Does it even matter
at that point?
In the animal world there are small animal veterinarians and
farm animal veterinarians. Are we humans
headed for that?
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