L. A. Barnes wrote:
>
> My wife (an RN) came home from work and related the following story.
>
> She always thought she was computer illiterate until she saw a nurse at
> a work station.  This nurse was using the mouse to navigate around the
> terminal screen.  Every once in-a-while this nurse would pick up the
> keyboard and move the mouse under it.
> My wife, being inquisitive, ask this nurse why she was lifting up the
> keyboard.
> The nurse replied, "I need to get the arrow at the bottom of the screen
> to the top, and the keyboard always gets in the way.  She then said,
> "that's how I was taught by ........"
>
> My wife said she almost fell on the floor laughing so hard!  My wife
> then explained she could pick up the mouse instead of the keyboard.  The
> nurse in question really liked the idea and would pass it on to other
> nurses.
>
> If they every use a mouse and computer screen to do surgery I hope they
> teach the nurses to pick up the mouse.  Or will they just lift up the
> patient during surgery?

Reminds me of the joke about the Gynecologist that took a course in auto
mechanics. The final was rebuilding a transmission. He got 150%.
Wondering about this he asked the instructor about it. The instructor
said he got 100% for rebuilding the transmission and 50% extra credit
for doing it through the tailpipe.