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[LeBaron]

Hey

Just heard that MeHole Martin ( The Minister for Encouraging Pneuonmonia in Elderly Smokers by " encouraging " them to go outside in the rain in de winter to have a Fag ) is going to introduce a new methodology of advising patients of thier appointments at hostpitals.... Yea you guessed it SMS !
The way this will work is that you will get a text message, say in January, that will read as follows

" Dear Criticaly Ill Heart Patient, We wud lik 2 tell U that UR OP has been set 4 Xmas 5 yrs frm now , C U den if UR still knockin round, OK Sham,
UR buddy, Me Hole "

WOW.... Oh Yea , and every 76 y/o Cardiac paitent has a mobile phone and understands SMS speak.... thanks 4 dat Tom

[redbulljunkie]

haha, they don't actually use sms speak do they? It's so annoying when professional organizations use it.

[redbulljunkie]

actually most people are very happy with the service. as for not having a mobile phone, then the service is optional,it's not like you'll be forced to run out and buy a phone, it's just a convenience extra being tried out by them

[LeBaron]

I just had this startling mental image of MeHole personaly sending out all de reminders so that he could save a few bobs on de clerical staff )

[solice]

is it really a bad idea. i havent heard anything about this but if its true i think its a fantastic idea. obviously lebaron is using an extreme case to get across his point of how it wont work. but it could actually be done so easily, when u make an appointment you give them your details of home address and phone no. anyway so they have your no. already. its just a matter of inputting the data of time and location into a database which sends out the sms at the apt time.

fantastic

i presume it starts off as a simple reminder, but this could be used to cut down paper work, save trees and the enviroment and the economy.

fantastic