Dispensary Corner 23 July 15
July 23, 2015
Rent-a-chick egg supply.
With US egg prices soaring
some 85% last month after an
outbreak of bird flu led to the
culling of millions of laying hens,
a Pennsylvania couple running
www.RentTheChicken.com have
been busily hatching their plans.
Jenn and Phil Tompkins have
been renting out their chickens
since 2013 to around 200
customers in 12 US states as well
as Ontario and Prince Edward
Island in Canada.
For $400, customers get two
laying hens producing around
14 eggs per week for the four to
six warmer months of the year,
together with a chicken coop,
a guide book and the option of
buying the chickens at the end of
the rental period.
Some municipalities have
relaxed suburban farmyard animal
restrictions in recognition of the
changing egg environment.
Surgical patients are being
urged not to over-react after a US
study into the safety of robots in
operating theatres found they had
been linked to at least 144 deaths
and over 1,000 injuries since 2000.
The US study, which pointed out
that these incidents were only
a small proportion of the total
number of robotic procedures,
looked at adverse events such as
broken instruments falling into
patients’ bodies, system errors,
spontaneous loss of power and
even electrical sparks causing
tissue burns.
“Despite widespread adoption
of robotic systems for minimally
invasive surgery, a non-negligible
number of technical difficulties
and complications are still being
experienced during procedures,”
the authors wrote, suggesting one
improvement would be to train
doctors in how to troubleshoot
technical issues more quickly.
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