Steve Baxter at Canadian Y2K writes briefly about a radio news report he heard today indicating that remediation in some Canadian hospitals is not going well.

http://www.albertaweb.com/year2000/docs/doc2799.html

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), April 15, 1999

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That's okay - it's like real cold up there man - and like, if there's any real big problem, they can just freeze things until everyting is fixed, and then, like you know, thaw out them out later. :<)

-- gladitshotdownhere (CA@CA.COM), April 15, 1999.

Do you mean, like, cryogenics? Guess if hospitals aren't ready in warmer climates the situation will be different. :)

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), April 15, 1999.

Dear Rachel: Surely hospitals will be busy, Get any elective surgery like eye laser work done now. Teeth problems get done now. Vaccinations should be done now. Tell your doctor that you're going to the south east asia and get a cholera shot.

-- Carlos Mueller (riffraff1@cybertime.net), April 15, 1999.

Thanks for the confirmation, Rachel. The hospital where I work is giving out happy faces, and I talked to the IT head (who thinks Y2K is a bunch of baloney :_( )! However, they are moving on it. One of the clinical instructors I know was asked by IT if her computer is okay!?! When she insisted that it was their job to tell her, they did eventually come up and put a happy face sticker on her PC; since they did it when she wasn't there and hadn't given them her passwords, she's not quite sure what or how they checked it.

On the other hand, the two hospitals in the system that have them, both recently replaced their MRI machines (inside info said Y2K, media reported the replacements, no word of Y2K), and our equipment in the sleep lab has been replaced due to Y2K (which I wouldn't know if I weren't working there), so maybe more is being done than the authorities are letting on.

Thanks again for the heads up.

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), April 15, 1999.

Tricia,

Maybe the "happy face sticker" is a code for "replace!"

My doctor, who is connected to the Foothills, insists that all will be well because "IT is throwing a lot of money at it." He reads the "Sunday Times," so I keep sending him links to anything they print about hospitals there. Hmmm...guess that should be "link"...they've printed only one that I know of. No wonder he's so complacent!

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), April 16, 1999.

Tricia,

Allan Rock's response to John Williams, the MP who did the survey:

Ottawa Citizen

from Thursday, April 15, 1999

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), April 16, 1999.

I couldn't access the article with your link, but thanks for the thought.

By the way, Williams is our MP. I think he may also GI, but has to watch what he says; you know the press that the reformers get. The last thing he dares is to sound like a fruitcake.

-- Tricia the Canuck, a proud fruitcake (jayles@telusplanet.net), April 16, 1999.