"Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually. It's a shocking statistic, and, according to a July 2006 report from the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually. Many such errors result from unclear abbreviations and dosage indications and illegible writing on some of the 3.2 billion prescriptions written in the U.S. every year."
Vamos, que la mala letra de los médicos
americanos (supongo que no será peor que la de los de aquí), mata a más de 7.000 personas al año. Además, los errores en la medicación afectan también a más de 1,5 millones. Casi todo viene por las abreviaturas poco claras, las indicaciones en las dosis y la letra ilegible en los 3.2000 millones de recetas en los IE.IE.U.U.¿A cuántos se estarán cargando aquí nuestros matasanos (nunca mejor dicho)?
¡Qué les corten la cabeza! ¡Esto no es el acueducto de Segovia!
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Among the hospitals that call me in to prevent medication errors (by giving handwriting classes to the doctors), a fairly high percentage claim to have “computerized everything” 1 or 2 or 5 or more years ago … yet they still have handwriting problems, because of a crucial 1% to 5% of handwritten documentation that just won’t go away.
Doctors in “totally computerized” hospitals still scribble Post-Its to slap onto the walls of the nurse’s station, still scrawl notes on the cuffs of their scrubs during impromptu elevator/corridor conferences with colleagues … and, most of all, doctors with computer systems often have the ward clerks operate the computers, use the Net, or whatever: working, of course, from the doctors’ illegible handwriting. Bad doctor handwriting, incorrectly deciphered by ward clerks using the computer for any purpose, thereby enters the computerized medical record.
And what happens when disasters like Hurricane Katrina (or tsunamis) knock out a hospital’s network? More than one hospital, during Katrina, lost its generator, its electric power — and therefore its computer system — for the duration. Even the computer-savviest staff in these disaster zones had to return to handwriting. Let's hope they wrote legibly.
Kate Gladstone - Handwriting Repair - http://learn.to/handwrite
thank you for your comment, Kate.
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