Not really an LOL quality joke, but an opportunity for a comment. Should the trope of “doctors have bad handwriting” be retired? (Doctors whose bad handwriting was relevant are likely all retired as well.) Nearly all prescriptions are either sent directly to the pharmacy, or printed out from the computerized medical record. That medical record itself isn’t handwritten notes anymore, but notes entered on a computer in medical English — not entirely readable, but for a different reason.
It’s like jokes involving pay phones.
This week I got birthday greetings from my four siblings — two days before my actual birthday. This happens every year. I used to correct them, but it never made any difference. Now I just go with the flow. Perhaps they really know, but it’s a minor practical joke on their part.
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That last joke was old when Myron Cohen told it.
The pot should say “Munny.”
Amateur.
Downpuppy: beat me to it! ;-)
The “unreadable scrawl” back in the day was actually a form of shorthand, both doctors and pharmacists learned it. (Of course, if the scrawl really was unreadable, the pharmacist would just call the doctor’s office to check.)
Is that Death uber’ing somebody (down the River Styx?) and asking for a favorable review? Her app is probably also prompting her for a tip: 20%? 25%? 30%?
For a couple of years in the 1970s, I was a pharmacy technician at our University Medical Center, working in all three sections: Inpatient, Outpatient, and IV. This was indeed the era of handwritten Rx’s and Doctor’s Orders forms.
And as Dvandom points out, reading those was easier than reading some arbitrary text in those handwritings. That’s because there were some pretty stable categories of what it would say: medication name, route, strength, schedule, special note. And some of it “coded” but in standard ways — you don’t need to know Latin philology to learn and remember that b.i.d. means “twice per day” and the like.