It Was All Greek To Hippocrates
It astonishes me the way the stuff of everyday life transforms itself into cartoons. One of my dogs was seriously sick this past week requiring that he be rushed to the vet. On my way out the door afterward I glanced at the prescription for something I was to buy over the counter at the pharmacy. The writing was all but illegible. The doctor was, of course, apologetic, and carefully, letter by letter, straightened things out. "And to think," he sad ruefully, "I was really trying hard to write it so it could be read." He's a nice man, and a good veteranarian, but I couldn't help thinking to myself, "yeah, and he's also trying hard to cure my dog." P.S. The dog's going to be fine.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:08 AM
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Gee, I would have sworn that one of my hens taught the class on how to write prescriptions, says she laughing.
So glad that your dog is on the road to recovery, John C.
My daughter is a pharmacist. At the health center where she works they have turned to computer generated pescriptions in order to cope with this problem. Before they did this she frequently had to call the physicians in order to decipher their scrawls. roger
You mean to say that Pharmacists still "read" those scripts? I thought since Doctors had become indentured to the big pharmaceutical companies... they don't need to communicate... they already know who's new product they are going to prescribe... and at what rate. Call me cyncial... LOL
My father is a retired physician and he has the cryptic scrawl to prove it. It's so sweet when he writes us letters but, of course no one has any idea what's written in them. Sigh.
Mary, that's funny!
John, I liked this so much I printed up a copy of it to take to my pharmacy. Hope that is OK with you?
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