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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Which one is the CentOS VM?

The one in need of a reboot, just to check that everything's still good?

It's my wiki. Run yum update today. It's running like a charm.

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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Of 800,000 active doctors in the US, assuming a normal length career, nearly every other doctor will kill a patient through sloppy handwriting alone in their career. Every. Other Doctor.

And this doesn't include the mistakes in giving the wrong medicine, mixing medicines, and other common life threatening mistakes. This is one singular method that isn't even a mistake, just refusing to use proper professional communication methods as would be considered a minimum worker standard in any other field. Basically... McDonald's takes transmitting your order from cashier to cook more seriously than most doctors take getting your prescription from doctor to pharmacist.

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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Basically... McDonald's takes transmitting your order from cashier to cook more seriously than most doctors take getting your prescription from doctor to pharmacist.

This was definitely true a few years ago, but becoming much and much less true. Electronic submissions of prescriptions is pretty common today. My office has been doing it for nearly 10 years.

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@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Basically... McDonald's takes transmitting your order from cashier to cook more seriously than most doctors take getting your prescription from doctor to pharmacist.

This was definitely true a few years ago, but becoming much and much less true. Electronic submissions of prescriptions is pretty common today. My office has been doing it for nearly 10 years.

Becoming less true, but still vastly true. My family has loads of pharmacists in it and they talk about all the garbage that happens still today. And we know doctors that don't even have computers in their offices still. It's very much still true today. And that 7,000 number is the rate per year that sloppy handwriting causes deaths TODAY after many doctors have moved away from handwriting. Think about that... imagine what the figure was just ten years ago, maybe 70,000?

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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Basically... McDonald's takes transmitting your order from cashier to cook more seriously than most doctors take getting your prescription from doctor to pharmacist.

This was definitely true a few years ago, but becoming much and much less true. Electronic submissions of prescriptions is pretty common today. My office has been doing it for nearly 10 years.

Becoming less true, but still vastly true. My family has loads of pharmacists in it and they talk about all the garbage that happens still today. And we know doctors that don't even have computers in their offices still. It's very much still true today. And that 7,000 number is the rate per year that sloppy handwriting causes deaths TODAY after many doctors have moved away from handwriting. Think about that... imagine what the figure was just ten years ago, maybe 70,000?

Definitely horrible - I blame the pharmacists though as much as I do the doctor. They are clearly guessing at what the doctor meant, instead of confirming. If the pharmacists were to push back on the doctors by calling and refusing to fill a prescription until they confirmed a messy script, the doctors would likely be pressured into writing better.