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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:25:37 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

>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>

It was worse. The bad leg still had to come off anyway, so he had *no*
legs to stand on. Currently, though, we don't need incompetent
surgeons to maim our patients; we've got MRSA big time. :-(
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.