Sunday February 23 1997 16:02, Mark Anderson wrote to Jim Jeffcoat:
 JJ>> Kind of makes you wonder what they did before they were invented!
 JJ>>
 MA>         That's easy. They used common sense and sound clinical 
dgement!
    What's scary about that is that your sentence is in the past tense.  
Common sense and sound clinical judgement should never be replaced by 
machines which report numbers whose accuracy is never certain.  Pulse 
oximiters are no more than a tool to be used to enhance your common sense and 
sound clinical judgement.  Never forget that they may lie to you though.  
Treat the patient - not the monitor (the monitor isn't sick). ;)
Chris
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