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WCDT strips 3836-3840 (24 to 28 September 2018)
Storel:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 04 Oct 2018, 08:37 ---
--- Quote from: Storel on 04 Oct 2018, 00:33 ---
--- Quote from: Morituri on 02 Oct 2018, 11:51 ---Much of the angst against doctors' handwriting was misplaced, though; In medical school, they used to teach future doctors (for reasons unknown to me) to write their prescriptions in Latin. People who couldn't read it reached the conclusion that it was illegible.
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They probably haven't taught doctors to write prescriptions in Latin for at least a hundred years, and trust me, doctors' handwriting is still extremely illegible. My wife the ex-nurse can testify to that. The main problem seems to be that doctors do so much writing that they write as quickly as possible, a habit which has extremely detrimental effects on legibility.
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All mine moved to computer printed 'scripts a while ago, but for the past year of so everything's been sent to the pharmacy electronically. Mrs. Goat RN agrees, the doctor with legible handwriting is a rare beast indeed. Nothing like a large malpractice settlement pay-out for a disastrous medication error to change long standing custom real quick.
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Yes, I understand the rate of medication errors in hospitals has gone down considerably since they got all computerized. Good thing, too, because the error rate was scarily high before then.
Nycticoraci:
--- Quote from: Storel on 04 Oct 2018, 00:33 ---They probably haven't taught doctors to write prescriptions in Latin for at least a hundred years...
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You say that, but have you ever seen script abbreviations such as "a.c.","b.d.s", "q1d", "tds", "ud", or anything else on this list?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations:_Latin_abbreviations
I'm sure most doctors don't write completely in latin, but many of the doctors where I am use latin abbreviations on their scripts.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Nycticoraci on 04 Oct 2018, 22:40 ---
--- Quote from: Storel on 04 Oct 2018, 00:33 ---They probably haven't taught doctors to write prescriptions in Latin for at least a hundred years...
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You say that, but have you ever seen script abbreviations such as "a.c.","b.d.s", "q1d", "tds", "ud", or anything else on this list?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations:_Latin_abbreviations
I'm sure most doctors don't write completely in latin, but many of the doctors where I am use latin abbreviations on their scripts.
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Excellent point! :-D Abbreviations like "bid", "tid", and "qid" (two, three, and four times a day, respectively) are absolutely still in common use, and I forgot all about that.
Scarlet Manuka:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 30 Sep 2018, 21:31 ---No doubt there were people in the First Century criticizing those new-fangled codices and claiming that the experience of reading from a scroll was far superior.
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