Say the weird thing

Hey, don't shoot the messenger.

It's just a stat at the Chicago Institution of Science. I found it on their website

@HumanEarth It sounded like a generalisation to me, and if my relatives or friends defy it I challenge the generalisation. I wasn't having a go at you personally, I was just telling it the way it really is.

Fair enough

One of friends from back home has your birthday

Wow, just wow

@SunshineGirl [quote]efficiently,[/quote]

Well, such patients aren't discharged I suppose. They are just having the weekend off so to speak.

But efficiency is something that the UK doesn't seem to do well these days. One of the most striking things about living in Norway is that many things just seem simpler than they are in many other countries. Hierarchies are generally short and people you speak to often have enough authority to get things done.

Of course nowhere is perfect, many years ago our eldest son was in hospital he got the best treatment and clearest explanations about what was happening to him from a very young nursing assistent while the highly qualified staff just didn't seem interested despite being on a children's ward.

Mind you he was later transferred to the Rikshospital in Oslo where everyone from the most senior paediatrician to the lowliest assistant was incredibly good at communicating with children. It was very interesting to see the Norwegian way of treating children as human beings when the senior paediatric surgeon spoke to my son (aged about ten at the time) to explain what he was going to do and, without being rude, left me to just listen in. He did check at the end that i had understood what was going on of course.

@ninalanyon I take it back! I applied for London ULEZ exemption for my car (foreign registered) this morning and the email confirming that my car is exempt arrived only two hours later.

I also applied for the same exemption for Ghent and Antwerp and while they confirmed by email that I had applied within seconds they still haven't confirmed the exemption three hours later.

So British efficiency wins against Belgian! Or is just London beats Ghent and Antwerp?

@ninalanyon My wife is sister nurse on a paediatric ward, which makes her the effective manager. All patient transfers have to be signed off by her. But she is also expected to do hands on nursing as well as the department is regularly understaffed. If you are dressing a wound or comforting a distressed child you cannot suddenly break off to do desk duties, so a bottleneck develops. Delegating authority to those capable of wielding it is the obvious solution. We use practitioner nurses in local clinics to relieve pressure on GPs. Hospitals are starting to use associate physicians (educated to MSc level) to do routine ward duties.

There is no way of teaching good bedside manner, unfortunately. You'd assume that anyone working in paediatrics was motivated by compassion for children, but the reality is often more complicated.

You were born on December 28

@HumanEarth 😞right month but the twentieth

Here maybe this will cheer you up about December

DECEMBER

You’re one of the most good-looking people out there, perhaps better looking than most of those born in the other months. You have a competitive and active nature, making you a great person for playing games and interacting with people. You have a clear vision but you are complicated to understand for other people. You possess genuine loyalty and you are very generous. You have a special love for jokes and debates, and you can’t help but daydream now and then.

My brother is one of them 9/11/71

@HumanEarth I graduated high school in 2020, which means everyone in my high school class who has that birthday, was actually born on 9/11/01.