http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/ Live a joyous, vibrant life despite illness! Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:26:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-3552 sandboxjoe@yahoo.com Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:24:08 +0000 http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/#comment-3552 I have encountered many problems in the past because of the writing on my prescriptions. The pharmacist wouldn't give me the meds or gave me the wrong ones. I was lucky not to need any intervention or heavy medicine because with that handwriting the doctor would surely mess up. I have encountered many problems in the past because of the writing on my prescriptions. The pharmacist wouldn’t give me the meds or gave me the wrong ones. I was lucky not to need any intervention or heavy medicine because with that handwriting the doctor would surely mess up.

]]> http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-3547 glamorD23@gmail.com Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:11:09 +0000 http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/#comment-3547 Yeah, it happened to me too. Even doctors make mistakes. Yeah, it happened to me too. Even doctors make mistakes.

]]> http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-2847 buga.daniel@gmail.com Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:04:17 +0000 http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/#comment-2847 When I go to the doctor I always ask what medicines he prescribes me to know for sure if I get the right ones! It's their fault too.. When I go to the doctor I always ask what medicines he prescribes me to know for sure if I get the right ones! It’s their fault too..

]]> http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-2808 sabina.buruiana@gmail.com Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:53:44 +0000 http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/#comment-2808 It would be a shame for a perfect person to die because of a stupid prescription. It would be a shame for a perfect person to die because of a stupid prescription.

]]> http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-2772 alin360@gmail.com Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:21:54 +0000 http://fibrantliving.com/2007/01/19/7000-deaths-a-year-due-to-bad-handwriting-save-yours/#comment-2772 Automation should eliminate many of the errors that occur when pharmacists misunderstand or misrecord medication names or dosages conveyed messily on paper or hurriedly by phone. Given that there are more than 17,000 pharmaceutical brands and generics available, a spoken request for Celebrex, for instance, can be mistaken for Celexa, or a notation requesting 150 milligrams of a drug might be read as 1500. In electronic systems, drugs and dosages are selected from menus to prevent input errors, and pharmacists don't need to re-enter information. Automation should eliminate many of the errors that occur when pharmacists misunderstand or misrecord medication names or dosages conveyed messily on paper or hurriedly by phone. Given that there are more than 17,000 pharmaceutical brands and generics available, a spoken request for Celebrex, for instance, can be mistaken for Celexa, or a notation requesting 150 milligrams of a drug might be read as 1500. In electronic systems, drugs and dosages are selected from menus to prevent input errors, and pharmacists don’t need to re-enter information.

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