The International Metric System and Medicine

Abstract

The United States is one of only nine nations in the world which use a nonmetric system of units for weights and measures. One hundred thirty-three nations, including the USSR, China, Japan, France, and Germany use a metric system. Additionally, 16 nations, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, are in the process of adopting a metric system. In the United States itself, utilization of the metric system has been steadily increasing. Since 1878, when the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association recommended the use of the metric system, American medicine has established an enviable record regarding the utilization of metric notations in medical practice and research. Today's level of accomplishment should serve to encourage other segments of US society which also must inevitably adopt a metric system of measurement. Public Law 90-472 authorized the secretary of commerce to study the advantages and disadvantages of increased use of

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