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klg
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response 68 of 88:
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Nov 23 02:49 UTC 2003 |
Why do they have stainless steel IV stands in the room?
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bru
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response 69 of 88:
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Nov 23 04:14 UTC 2003 |
not only that, but you are required to undergo an exray prior to MRI, because
even minute fragments of metal that might be found in your body, can becomee
projectiles in the field. notthing quite like a steel sliver ripping thru
an eyeball to spoil your day.
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polygon
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response 70 of 88:
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Nov 23 05:06 UTC 2003 |
Re 53. Like other, I do have experience with employer/union relations,
both from a management and union standpoint.
It is also true that unionized employees make up a steadily dwindling
fraction of the U.S. workforce, so the situation that obtains in a labor
negotiation is largely irrelevant to most employees.
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remmers
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response 71 of 88:
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Nov 23 14:43 UTC 2003 |
Re #66: There's some validity in what klg says. In the last round
of faculty/administration contract negotiations at EMU, the administration
agreed to a $1000 increase in the base salary of any faculty member who
elected a particular health care plan that would save the administration
money. (However, it was the administration who was pushing the health
care package and the union that suggested boosting salaries as a reward.)
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russ
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response 72 of 88:
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Nov 23 15:52 UTC 2003 |
Re #63: That would have been an MRI scanner, not a CAT
scanner. CAT is just a two-axis X-ray machine and no
more needs magnets than fish need bicycles. MRI uses
the gyroscopic moment of certain atomic nuclei when they
are in a magnetic field, and depends on multi-Tesla
superconducting coils to give the nuclear spins something
to react against.
MRI machines are noisy, because there are large radio-frequency
(27 MHz or so) pulses to kick the nuclei spins, and "gradient
coils" which move the center of the magnetic field around and
permit measurements of different points inside the magnet
bore. The gradient coils are driven by massive audio-frequency
amplifiers, and while they have lousy treble response I'm told
that the lows can literally shake buildings. An MRI expert
I know told of a time that someone played In A Gadda Da Vida
over an MRI's gradient coils (crazy Brits).
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twenex
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response 73 of 88:
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Nov 23 15:56 UTC 2003 |
I believe the phrase you're looking for is "eccentric Brits".
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other
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response 74 of 88:
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Nov 23 16:56 UTC 2003 |
re #69: Funny, I wasn't required to undergo an x-ray before my
recent MRI. I just answered a bunch of questions.
And the machine was REALLY noisy. I brought good earplugs because I
expected there to be a lot of noise, but I figured it would have
something to do with keeping the huge electromagnet cool. That was
obviously not the source of the noise (a lot of clunking and
banging, mostly) and even with the info in #72, I'm still quite
puzzled as to exactly what the noise was.
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mary
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response 75 of 88:
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Nov 23 17:31 UTC 2003 |
There have been some horrible accidents
involving MRI scanners, and stray metal
either in the room, fragments in the patient,
or even undiscolsed older implants.
The last one I heard about involved a
young boy who was emergently sent to MRI
and in the rush to get him scanned nobody
realized a portable O2 tank had been brought
in and was parked in a corner. During the
scan it was sucked into the MRI tube and the
boy's head was crushed.
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other
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response 76 of 88:
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Nov 23 20:19 UTC 2003 |
ouch
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tpryan
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response 77 of 88:
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Nov 23 20:55 UTC 2003 |
Sounds like bad design of room/rooms.
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goose
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response 78 of 88:
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Nov 24 14:55 UTC 2003 |
And this is why malpractice insurance is so expensive....;-)
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willcome
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response 79 of 88:
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Nov 24 19:12 UTC 2003 |
whores?
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gull
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response 80 of 88:
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Nov 25 17:12 UTC 2003 |
Re #56: It probably has more than a little to do with the fact that drug
company profit margins are some of the highest in existance.
Re #66: My personal experience is different. My employer cut back on
health care benefits and I didn't get any increase in salary. In fact
no one has had a raise in two years. Maybe it's 'cause I'm not union.
Re #68: Most grades of stainless steel are not attracted to magnets.
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klg
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response 81 of 88:
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Nov 25 17:52 UTC 2003 |
re: "Re #66: My personal experience is different. My employer cut
back on health care benefits and I didn't get any increase in salary."
This is not evidence that the labor cost, in total, was reduced. It
may, in fact, have increased.
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gull
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response 82 of 88:
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Nov 25 18:05 UTC 2003 |
I suppose. Still, I have my doubts. Salaries are set by competition on
the labor market, so just because an employer saves money doesn't mean
they'll pass that along as higher salaries. Unless the labor market is
tight they'll probably just pocket it.
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klg
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response 83 of 88:
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Nov 25 21:02 UTC 2003 |
(Salaries/wages AND benefits - i.e., total labor costs - are set by
competition??)
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gull
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response 84 of 88:
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Nov 25 22:02 UTC 2003 |
That may be, but salary is what's usually advertised.
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klg
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response 85 of 88:
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Nov 26 03:34 UTC 2003 |
(It is????? We generally see benefits listed, but no salary level.)
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gull
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response 86 of 88:
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Nov 26 14:35 UTC 2003 |
I see benefits listed for things like government jobs, where the salary
is almost always lower than an equivalent private sector job, in an
attempt to make the job seem more attractive. I don't think I've seen
benefits listed on a regular basis for private sector jobs.
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willcome
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response 87 of 88:
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Nov 27 09:34 UTC 2003 |
I think we should have SOCIALISED WHORERY!
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gull
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response 88 of 88:
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Nov 28 14:59 UTC 2003 |
Do you find that the private sector is not delivering whores of
sufficient quality?
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