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Doctors' Poor Handwriting Kills 7,000 and Injures 1.5 Million Annually
A National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine report has revealed that in excess of 7,000 people are killed each year as a result of poor handwriting by doctors. A further 1.5 million are injured.
The main areas of risk are illegible writing, unclear abbreviations, and vague dosage directions. In response a free, web-based program will be launched to allow doctors to write electronic prescriptions and check for harmful drug interactions. source: http://www.time.com |
damn doctors... learn how to handwrite!!
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damn that suxors. check your meds yo.
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I wouldn't doubt it..I don't know how they can read my docs chicken scratch.The pharmacy always have to phone and ask wtf
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Reading the title I thought you were talking about one guy lol
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I've never gotten a prescription I could read... I swear the pharmacist guests half the time when they are too lazy to call it in.
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I always thought it was some sort of secret code that only pharmacists could understand, but aparently not all of them can.
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Good to know that there will be electronic prescriptions.
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make some kind of cheap digital tablet to solve this problem you could be rich! |
damn that's a lot....
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PRINT that shit electronically, mofos. HIPAA should be amended to cover this situation.
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In my area they print out the prescriptions. Looks like a standardised form used by the industry.
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never could figure out why us more intelligent humans have chicken-scratch for hand writing...
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That's an amazing statistic!
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a lot of dr's learn how to write like that in med school so they can argue in court....
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uhm.. here in Tucson, AZ they already have an electronic system setup. I just go to the doctor and then to the pharmacy to pick my stuff up.
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Soon everyone will be using keypads instead of pencils and pens.
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yeah I think this is unforgivable, they need to make electronic prescribing compulsory. I actually did some ground-work for this type of business but getting something to market in the medical field is such a huge undertaking.
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i'm safe, my doctor has a computer
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Heh,i remember old joke which say"if you dont know how to write,become a doctor"
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