[e-drug] confusions on prescription serving (3)

E-DRUG: confusions on prescription serving (3)
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I think WB's comments are quite valid and the higher the risk profile of a
particular dispensing encounter (domain of the pharmacist), the more
important and necessary it becomes to clarify with the prescriber. Every
possible/available communication channel must be tried, bearing in mind
that telephones are still not the rule in many parts of the world,
especially in places where the consequences of error, such as Jasti Meena
describes, may be hard to reverse.

If a prescriber decides to use codes at the opening of the communication
channel, for what ever reason, then he/she must be equally interested in
how this is decoded at the receiving and auctioning end.

On a lighter side, I just wonder how the use of computers is making this
problem more serious. Just last night, by coincidence, I peeped over my
10-year old daughter sending a message to her friend. Her text read
something like "dr br u shld nt be ......." How on earth her friend will
understand this I don't know but some how they communicate regularly! I
learn that this language is called "weblish"!

Murtada M. Sesay
E-mail: msesay@unicef.org

[Hi M I th U r right; if we use abrv all shld ustand what we write. thx 4 u
comm ; -))
BTW, WB = Wilbert Bannenberg, E-drug moderator, email wjb@wxs.nl)

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