Subj : Re: aunt was: Miss.RvrDamBre To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Jun 01 2020 18:31:28 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 18-May-2020 08:36 <=- BM>> OTOH accidents and illnesses don't wait for one to get somewhere BM>> convenient. And of course all hospitals are not equipped to handle BM>> everything so transfer to a higher level one may be necessary. NB>> Yup, AIS2, one might be nowhere close to home and have an emergency... NB>> There's a little of transferring between hospitals here, but in most NB>> cases, any of the local ones are pretty high level... One exception is NB>> that the hospital our PCP office is part of, Unity, isn't equipped NB>> for the higher level heart surgeries, so Richard was transfered from NB>> there to RGH, in the same "network", for his bypass.... ;) BM> With the cost of specialized equipment and I'd presume also some BM> staffing it makes more sense to have one hospital in system group be BM> the go-to site for cardiac instances, another cancer, another something BM> else. (This example must be a huge place!!) Or at least the specializations shared between two or three hospitals, so that only one has to do the high-level investment in each case... Yes, that does make sense... BM> As I said some time back locally Genesis West is the oncology center BM> and some other speciality I'm not recalling right now. They don't do BM> general emergency walk-ins, instead sending them to Genesis East. (The BM> West campus was the one where they put back together this Humpty Dumpty.) So maybe West also handles orthopedics...? BM>>> Right: someone, anyone could be asymptomatic and infect. Not just BM>>> COVID-19 but just about every other 'spreadable' disease. I'm quite BM>>> sure the restrictions are helping slow the spread. Sure, an BM>>> inconvenience; better than being sick. NB>>> As long as this doesn't become a new normal, banning everyone just in NB>>> case there might be some illness they might be carrying... ;0 BM>> I'm hoping it doesn't come to that! Temperature scanning might be; BM>> would be not that great to go someplace and be turned away because of BM>> a fever but one might not know they were sick. NB>> And one might have become sick on the way there, too... BM> True; all sorts of possibilities. Becoming sick on the way to or BM> during an event isn't all that uncommon. Exactly. BM>> Yes, sometimes just easier to go with the flow. Personally I don't BM>> think I would mind going to all telephone calls require the 1 and area BM>> code, or maybe just the area code: isn't like with a rotary phone BM>> where it would take a whole extra three seconds to dial those numbers! BM>> Sure, would take a while to get used to dialing 'everything' - BM>> probably as long as it took to go from five digit to seven digit BM>> dialing (growing up in NH was 8-2441 to 888-2441). NB>> Not so much of a problem once you've entered it into your cell phone's NB>> Contacts or into your phone's directory... just "flip" to it and NB>> push... but if you need to do a lot of calls not already entered, it NB>> might not be so simple.... ;) BM> I forgot about that convenience bacause I don't use my BM> phone all that much. Dial home, easier to enter the seven digits. I BM> did put entries in the Address Book and have used it. My cell phone has the capability of I think 9 speed dial numbers (1-9), where 1 is hard-wired to dial Voicemail... I set up Home as Speed Dial 2... all I have to do is press and hold the 2, and voila', it's dialing the number... ;) Haven't set up any other ones yet, though... ;) BM>>> "Interestingly" -- for us here in the Quad Cities anyway! -- we only BM>>> need to dial the seven digit number for most calls to the other side BM>>> of the River. If I want to dial from a 563 area code number here in BM>>> Iowa to a 309 number in Illinois just the seven digits. (!) Is BM>>> restricted to certain exchanges: I can dial below-the-hill Hampton, IL BM>>> with seven digits but above-the-hill need eleven. NB>>> That sounds like there's one telephone system covering both sides of NB>>> the river in that area... otherwise there could have been duplication NB>>> of the seven digit numbers, for which the area code would have been NB>>> needed to differentiate.... :) BM>> Nope: Iowa side is CenturyLink and Illinois side is Illinois Bell. NB>> In that case, I'd guess that they've made some sort of arrangement NB>> between them for which numbers are available where.... BM> Probably; used to be got enough wrong numbers! (Now it's spam.) Yup... intentional "wrong" numbers.... BM>> "Fun part" is they use two different wiring systems! The phone port BM>> wiring is the same (red green yellow black) but the distribution trunks BM>> are different. Years ago (early 90's?) they added a new trunk to BM>> alleviate the overload; initially created even more busy signals! They BM>> finally found the colour coding was different, so a "TXC" signal on BM>> one system was blue and on another was orange. Technician instead BM>> connected the CenturyLink blue to Illinois Bell blue and -- oops! BM>> (The examples of TXC, blue, and orange are made up but the connecting BM>> of the same colour causing the problem was true.) NB>> Oops, indeed... ;) Good it was found, though.... :) BM> They more or less had to because it made the improvement sso much BM> worse. It wasn't just more busy signals but almost constant busy BM> signals when calling from one side to the other. So a clear malfunction, and necessary to track down and fix.... :) BM>>> I'm 'lazy' and the less stuff I have to bring with me the better, so BM>>> the phone with camera with GPS with Internet, etc., etc. is easier for BM>>> me. Again boils down to personal preferences. NB>>> Yup, you've been converted to smartphones... ;) BM>> Now if I can figure out how to answer the phone part! NB>> Can't help you there... from what I've seen there's all sorts of NB>> different permutations of what answers the phone... BM> Brings a new version of Phone Tag: you call me, it goes to voice mail, BM> or I finally get in to where I see you called. I call you back, you BM> struggle to answer your phone in time.... That's mostly not even funny.... ;) My cell phone, not being smart, is a lot simpler to answer.... only drawback for me is when I've silenced it for a meeting, and forgot to turn it back to sound... or if I'm somewhere noisy and don't hear it ring.... NB>> ... Old virus detected - ask your hacker for new version! BM> They should designate a specific day of the week or at least once a BM> month for updates! Um.... no, thankyou.... ;) ttyl neb .... Electrician's epitaph: His death was a shock to everyone including him --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .