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Decided to test a former pharm tech.
The runes… decoded
Thanks for sending and sharing, that’s incredible to the point it’s hard to believe
how
i guess the p and l are the important bits and the rest can just be inferred, since paracetamol is very commonly used and they'd get tired writing it in detail every time. other more specialized drugs with p___l (or close to it) as its name would have more squiggles i assume.
It’s (shorthand)[teeline.online]. It says “prc(t)ml” with the p being in the obvious spot (though it should be just a downward line), the r is the diagonal line after it, the c is the little curl, the t should be more pronounced, but it should be a horizontal line slightly above the rest, the m is a concave-down swoosh, and the l is the final curl. No vowels b/c they’re largely redundant.
Runes
It's a super common prescription and most doctors probably couldn't spell it offhand. Combined with dosing info it would be more obvious. Also if they do happen to be wrong it's unlikely to actually cause harm with acetaminophen/paracetamol.
Edit: another benefit is disguising to a patient that demands something to take. Essentially a placebo.
In addition, there's a psychological phenomenon where our brains only need the first and last letter of a word in the right place, and all the right letters in between in any order, to suss out a word. Our familiarity with a lngaauge will put it together, so presumably the same is true for healthcare providers' common words.
Note: I included an example of this in my comment
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FTFY… I read this just as fast as the original.
Your e-----------e d-----t w----k w-----------t the c-----------t of the l---------s i-----------------n.
If they're commonly used words the scribbles end up becoming a form of shorthand that doctors can recognize, but they're meaningless to anyone who isn't already familiar with them.
"Your example doesn't work without the context of the (something) intention."
How'd I do?
Pretty damn close.
"Your example doesn't work without the context of the letters inbetween."
Inbetween is not a word.
Because scribbles all have correct grammar and spelling, right?
An yet its common enough that people are able to figure out what is meant.
Not sure but I think you mean chunking. When you know a word you don't need to read all letters by themselves but know roughly what the word looks like as a whole, so you can read it faster. This also inrotrozutes a failure rate of course, but works pretty well.
Statistics, I think
Omg it actually works
Funny, but also not. Just Googled because I couldn't remember:
"According to the Institute of Medicine, physician's illegible notes lead to approximately 7,000 deaths annually."
Seems unreal. Even if it was half that...that's a lot of people. If I was getting prescribed drugs, I want it LEGIBLE. Typed up would be great. I just don't trust that shit, and neither should any of you.
some said i was destined to be a doctor with my handwriting and family. i decided to break the cycle and become a videographer that barely scrapes by. my family is... they like the videos i make of our get togethers...
at least i haven't accidentally killed anyone.
at least I haven't accidentally killed anyone.
Yet, there's still time, I believe in you.
This is likely why I haven't seen my doctor write anything for over a decade. Literally everything is done on the computer now. There's a rolling computer in each room. The only handwriting I saw was by the nurses on a big whiteboard when my wife was giving birth. Just to pass notes and write times.
As someone who's done IT work for a medical facility, that's not as much of a step up as you might think.
Watching my doctor fill out my digital chart to avoid these spelling mistakes….
me: I take guanfacine
Doctor: oh ok cool you take mucinex?
me: no, not guanfanesin, guanfacine.
Doctor: oh, ok. Got it
Doctor: ….
Me: ….
Doctor: and what milligram mucinex do you take?
OMG I just had this exact conversation with my doctor!
This literally just happened to me at the doctor's office. I brought up that I'm interested in trying guanfacine to help with my ADHD and blood pressure and my new doctor tried to correct me.. I should probably look for a new doctor.
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Back in the day I used to work at one of the largest hospitals in the US. In my last year there they had started having doctors record their notes, issues order, and prescriptions, on an audio file, using and issued microphone. Then that stuff was sent to a group of people transcribing everything in text. these scribes would also fill out forms for the orders and prescriptions. they did this in response to a series of lawsuits they lost badly.
Here in the UK and (if I'm remembering correctly) back home in Canada, I have always been handed a print out of my prescription with a signature.
Mine are usually faxed to the pharmacy (manitoba, Canada)
Same in Ontario. I'll get a paper copy if I ask for one, but otherwise new scripts are faxes direct to the pharmacy. Even paper copies are a printout though. I haven't gotten a handwritten prescription in well over a decade now
I'm from Vancouver(ish), BC.
No surprise. Lead is very toxic. /s
p-------------l
Nah, I can give them p-r-------l at least.
Peenol™️ - it’s for the peen™️
I just see "oishi." Tasty?
Where is the し？Do Japanese people have some kind of Schreibschrift for kana, so many new questions
It's right at the end!
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They started to draw a dick but stopped when they realized it would be unprofessional
It's a sperm
You don’t need prescription for paracetamol afaik, could be prescription strength I guess
If it's in a hospital setting any medication given likely needs an MD order.
Might not be a prescription, could be release forms or something like that
Or that, for sure
Or that you want to be able to put it through insurance / benefits.
If you need more than I think it's about 16 in a single transaction you do in the UK I think.
How?
What about the little story about red riding hood along that last twisty bit? It's funny because of the British accent, clearly nope, specially not on percetamenofemol as prescribed.
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