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P T - 13 May 2005 15:57 GMT

I don't remember the drug, but it was a 10mg tablet. A colleague asked
me what I thought of the sig. I read it slowly, and it became more and
more bizarre. Something very similar to:

Take | | qam and 30mg every morning

I just shook my head and handed it back to him, glad that I had not
started to work on it.

Don't tell me electronic transmission solves all the problems of
handwritten scripts.

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Pumbaa - 13 May 2005 17:18 GMT

Are you using a FAX machine or what to receive the prescription? We used
Fax machines in a hospital and often enough random errors would appear in a
drug Rx and sometimes the patient got the wrong dose. Your system must not
have a way to verify the transmitted file against the original as a checksum
program should catch it and require a retransmission.

I used to transmit files using MS-DOS at 300 baud and with the proper
protocol eventually the data was transmitted successfully. So much for
modern progress.
At least .AVI files get transmitted correctly these days for movies.

> I don't remember the drug, but it was a 10mg tablet. A colleague asked
> me what I thought of the sig. I read it slowly, and it became more and
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> Don't tell me electronic transmission solves all the problems of
> handwritten scripts.

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