"Y2K will come to pass with a whimper" in Postgraduate Medicine

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Is Y2K really such a big problem? Tips on preparing your clinical practice Bryan P. Bergeron, MD

VOL 105 / NO 7 / JUNE 1999 / POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE

The Y2K (year 2000) scare is big. Really big. Computer consultants and software manufacturers are salivating at the prospect of making a quick fortune on the mass hysteria surrounding the coming of the new year. Similarly, the popular media, always hungry for emotional content, are milking Y2K for all it's worth. However, just as prophesies of disaster accompanying the passage of Halley's comet, dire omens associated with solar eclipses, and the imminent demise of the planet from effects of global warming have yet to be realized, Y2K will come to pass with a whimper, not a bang.

http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/1999/06_99/dd_jun99.htm

Comments??????

-- Tom (Y2KOhno!@Yikes!.com), September 17, 1999

Answers

"Y2K will come to pass with a whimper, not a bang."

I'm open to intelligent argument. But what are they basing this prediction on? From what I've read, many medical facilities are in a sorry state of readiness. Is there more to this, Tom?

-- mil (millenium@yahoo.com), September 17, 1999.


Rendon Group sure is thorough. Who would've thought of planting a piece in a postgrad med journal. Bonuses all around.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), September 17, 1999.

"Similarly, the popular media, always hungry for emotional content, are milking Y2K for all it's worth."

Huh, which media is this? If it gets mentioned once a week, with yet another company giving it's spin, that's a lot. If the popular media was really milking y2k for all it's worth, it would be on the front page, everyday,..and it would be really really scary.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), September 17, 1999.


This post reminds me of my encounters with most people concerning Y2K. In fact I've found the more schooling someone has obtained the more adamant their belief Y2K is just another marketing ploy.

-- Rob Carroll (flyingred@montana.com), September 17, 1999.

I colud have turned cartwheels after the one trip I ran last night!! I had to go down the FLAMEAWAY's home town to bring home a person who works for McBooz-Anderson-MG, and, as we got to her driveway (WAY too late for me to domuch) she, SHE, mentioned Y2K and what she was going to have to do for her fireplace and keeping a room warm. WOWZA!! I suggested a fireplace insert and then she wqas gone, but her NEIGHBOR is apparently a GI who had made the 6 mil visquine suggestion. I hope he's leading her in the right direction!!!!

Chuck

BTW FLAMEAWAY: I am NOT gonna take the hit for the rain last night!!! Blame FLOYD!!!

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), September 17, 1999.



In the words of T. S. Eloit,

"this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends: not with a bang but with a whimper"

                                The hollow men 
                                by Thomas Stearns Eliot 

Mistah Kurtz-he dead. A penny for the Old Guy

I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece fill with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without color, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

II Eyes I dare not meet in dreams In death's dream kingdom These do not appear: There, the eyes are

Sunlight on a broken column There, is a tree swinging And voices are In the wind's singing More distant and more solemn Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer In death's dream kingdom Let me also wear Such deliberate disguises Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves In a field Behaving as the wind behaves No nearer-

Not that final meeting In the twilight kingdom

III This is the dead land This is the cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this In death's other kingdom Waking alone At the hour when we are Trembling with tenderness Lips that would kiss From prayers to broken stone.

IV The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless The eyes reappear As the perpetual star Multifoliate rose Of death's twilight kingdom The hope only Of empty men.

V Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear, prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception And creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long.

Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow. For Thine is the Kingdom.

For Thine is Life is For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.



-- (@ .), September 17, 1999.

We worked with a lot of Drs, residents, interns, etc. at a large prestigious university hospital. We were amazed at their general ignorance and overall arrogance. 98% are not Dr. Wellbees. And NONE of them knew or cared squat about Y2K. Drs have a heavily vested interest in the status quo.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 17, 1999.

in my unofficial survey of my family's drs offices in the past few weeks--some small practice, some rather large:

1 out of 6 was preparing (yet her practice's computers will not be compliant 1 out of 6 said y2k was a non issue (and his practice's computers are compliant 4 out of 6 did not even have a clue about y2k and have not done anything

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), September 17, 1999.


I hope that the author is not outside my door come mid-January... I hate to hear him whimpering...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 17, 1999.

T.S. Elliot always depressed the hell out of me.

My brother is an internal medicine doctor in a teaching hosptial. He recently bought a MAK-90, an SVD, and a riot shotgun. Hmmm.....

-- fred (me@here.com), September 17, 1999.



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