I just found out that the hospital where I work made the transition from horse-drawn ambulances to electric trolley at the end of the 1800s, and they made the transition to automobiles around 1910. If you don’t give it a second thought, you might think “well duh, they had to transition at SOME point,” but if you do stop and think about the amount of planning, money and TRAINING that goes into implementing something as complicated as a new method of transportation, your mind starts to get blown.
Lately we are walking on egg shells trying to get some physicians to change their ways (like… ummm… checking their email!)… can you imagine having to train a whole fleet of new drivers? The kind of resistance the hospitals must have encountered, and the amount of money that it must have taken to buy those shiny new cars?
I guess they weren’t as simple-minded and “quaint” at the turn of the century, were they? I tip my hat to the project manager for that particular venture.
ina
Photo credit: http://firegeezer.com/2009/02/10/horse-drawn-ambulance-to-be-restored/
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