Re: John Kerry will ban all electronics ! ! !

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From: Rich Grise
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:25

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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:33:35 +0100, Paul Burridge wrote:

> On 24 Oct 2004 19:41:07 -0700, soar2morrow@yahoo.com (Tom Seim) wrote:
> 
>>Actually people are very interested in voluntary RFID implantation.
>>Consider going into the hospital for surgery and getting an
>>incompatible anesthetic. This can be prevented by having an RFID chip
>>then encodes your unique identity that could, then, be referenced to
>>your medical records.
> 
> Yeah, sure. It sounds like more of a plausible excuse to install RFID
> chips in the gullible masses and it still won't stop mistakes being
> made.
> I know of a case in the UK where a guy went into hospital to have his
> leg removed. Fearing some mix up, he wrote "This one" on the leg that
> was to be amputated and "NOT this one!" on the other leg.
> Unbelievably, the surgeon still managed to remove the wrong leg! :-(

When I heard this, the punchline was that when he went to sue for 
malpractice, he didn't have a leg to stand on. <rimshot>

:-)
Rich

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