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...have handblown glass into a thousand multi-colored pumpkins. You can check out the installation on Friday night, and pick your own on Saturday, when the veggies will be on sale for $20-$200. Take the Red Line to Kendall Square. 5. Thursday, September 28 - Saturday, September 30. $25 wristband (available online at www.ticketbean.com) gets you all shows, or you can go à la carte. To some, it is an animated clownfish with a deformed fin. But in Boston, Nemo is also an independent music smorgasbord, featuring 300 artists and bands over three days of hipsters and hipness. Show...
Another innovation at the VA was a bar-code system, as in the supermarket, for prescriptions--a system used in fewer than 5% of private hospitals. With a hand-held laser reader, a nurse scans the bar code on a patient's wristband, then the one on the bottle of pills. If the pills don't match the prescription the doctor typed into the computer, the laptop alerts the nurse. The Institute of Medicine estimates that 1.5 million patients are harmed each year by medication errors, but computer records and bar-code scanners have virtually eliminated those problems...
...Johns Hopkins. "And as with any new thing, people screw things up worse before they make things better." Doctors say there is a temptation to trust computers too much: they seem objective and infallible, but if the wrong information is entered in the first place, or the bar-coded wristband is put on the wrong patient, it can be harder to prevent mistakes down the line. In one case study, a patient with pneumonia had his wristband mixed up with a diabetic patient and came very close to being given a fatal dose of insulin...
...Resort, where reporters paid $360 a night for rooms that included a whirlpool with a family-size bottle of bubble bath. The property is so massive that I was in ?Edifico 23,? part of the ?Mango? complex. The Moon is an ?all-inclusive? resort, meaning that guest receive a wristband giving them unlimited access to all the bars and restaurants on the property. ?A cruise ship on land,? is how one journalist put it. There?s an extra charge for the temporary tattoos and full-body massages available poolside. ?Golfito,? or mini-golf and ?no gravity sensation scuba? are also...
Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Wearing a Voith-Gadgil wristband...