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Another story concerns the foreman at a construction site who is mixing his mortar by hand although a new mechanical mixer is available. When an American technician asks why the mixer is not used, the foreman replies proudly: "I am one day ahead of schedule now, so why bother with the machine?" Moral: Asians have no sense of urgency...
Suddenly last summer, the woman accused her husband of menacing her with a .38-cal. revolver and threatening to kill himself. A Dallas County justice of the peace patched up that fight by telling the husband, former Electronics Technician Kenneth Porter, to get the gun out of the house and go to church. The advice obviously took, for Mrs. Porter, 24, is now awaiting the birth of her third child (her first by Porter) at home in a Dallas suburb. Porter is out of work just now, but the baby bills should be paid promptly just the same. Mrs. Porter...
...physician assumes he has is shared with many others. For the facts are that medicine has become infinitely more complex, and no physician can provide all the benefits of modern medicine by himself. Like it or not, he is dependent upon others, and a laboratory error by a technician in a remote corner of the hospital may be as devastating to the patient's progress as an error in judgement on the part of the physician...
...heavily burdened with required courses during his educational experience that there is no time for independent study, his continuing education will be is jeopardy. Experience in a research laboratory may or may not fulfil this need. If his work in the laboratory is essentially that of a technician, it will...
Paider's lawyers cited precedents in which compensation was awarded to a telephone operator who caught TB from a mouthpiece infected by another operator; and to a lab technician who had the same experience with a pipette. The court was not impressed. In those cases, it said, the claimants faced "special hazard" in using oral tools that were indispensable to their jobs. A truck cab bearing a tuberculous co-worker is no such "instrument of transmission...