Yesterday I spoke with a friend who had been to India for several weeks as part of a Rotary Club outreach. She indicated that she had met a gentleman who had lost his family in a plane crash and subsequently started a hospital in India.
It was a touching story, but there was a strange twist that I was having trouble following. Several times, instead of simply calling it a hospital, she called it an iHospital. For the life of me, I could not figure out how this worked. Was this some new technology by Apple? Was this an online method of working on patients? Unfortunately, I was so caught up in this, that I missed some of what she was saying and ended up destroying the heart warming nature of the story with my big reveal.
As the story progressed, it became clear to me that I was missing something very important. It turns out that this iHospital has several iDoctors who were helping out somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 iPatients a day.
That's when I realized my error. She was talking about an Eye Hospital. Yeah, I shared my ignorance, and we had a good laugh.
I blame Steve Jobs.
