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Doctors' handwriting is a reference to the stereotypically illegible handwriting of some medical practitioners, which sometimes causes errors in dispensing. In the US, illegible handwriting has been indirectly responsible for at least 7,000 deaths annually.
take (often effectively a noun meaning "prescription"—medical prescription or prescription drug) rep. repetatur: let it be repeated s. signa: write (write on the label) s.a. secundum artem: according to the art (accepted practice or best practice) SC subcutaneous "SC" can be mistaken for "SL," meaning sublingual. See also SQ: sem. semen seed ...
When he suddenly became barely able to walk, with blurry vision and spiking blood pressure, emergency room doctors suspected a stroke, but couldn't pinpoint the cause of his illness.
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
As if Apple's (NAS: AAPL) iPad needed any help in unit sales growth, another market now promises to help take the dominating tablet to new heights: the medical market. Apple acknowledged the ...
Doctor's Orders or doctor's orders may refer to: Doctor's orders, a medical prescription; Doctor's Orders, a 1934 film "Doctor's Orders" (song), a 1974 song by Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway and Geoff Stephens; Doctor's Orders a Star Trek: The Original Series novel written by Diane Duane
What the Doctor Ordered (2013) Thoreau's Microscope (2018) (also containing bibliography and interview with Terry Bisson) All I Ever Dreamed: Stories (2018) (collection reprinting the above collections, along with two uncollected stories) Long (2023) (containing all of Blumlein's novellas) Short (2023) (containing all of Blumlein's short stories)
In the natural hospital setting, nurses were ordered by unknown doctors to administer what could have been a dangerous dose of a (fictional) drug to their patients. In spite of official guidelines forbidding administration in such circumstances, Hofling found that 21 out of the 22 nurses would have given the patient an overdose of medicine. [2]