colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (07/18/85)
> Nevertheless, Joe Graedon -- author of "The People's Pharmacy" and host > of a local radio call-in program -- has collected many examples of > misunderstood prescriptions. Despite explicit advice in the most widely > respected drug textbook, many doctors insist on using "time-saving" > "standard" medical idioms instead of writing out the prescription in > plain English; they ignore the difficulties they cause to fellow health > professionals (not to mention the patients). Plain English makes it too easy to forge prescriptions ... how about plain Latin? No moral, unless it's that in the computer age, professionalism isn't always a virtue. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva