Posted By: grasshopper on 2008-05-09
In Reply to: I have a friend...sm - curious

They were thinking of doing that or tried with a hospital I used to work for. Their rationale was that it was too much of a distraction. Could not believe that! MTs need the search assists on the internet. It just goes to show you how totally out-of-touch they are with job MTs perform.

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