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Old 23rd Aug 2007, 08:25
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Windbag
 
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And Another Thing!

Why is it that the Club Swingers/Muscle Mechanics have better diagnostic kit than the Vets? In the last 5 years I have lost count of the number of times the PTIs have offered to connect me up to all manner of wonderful electronic gizmos to tell me all sorts of statistics. One machine even managed to work out my fat content, water content, muscle content and what should be my "perfect" stats - which would still have put me obese....But at least I drink more water nowadays!!

Some of these machines are scarily accurate nowadays, but I agree that the important thing is what is done with the info by both sides, if people are in trouble (or fat as T_E would have us call them) then councel them but make it a proper contract with some incentive (like keeping your job). No doubt with overstretch in both normal work and the Medical Services, this opportunity to tune up peoples health will be sadly missed
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