*sigh*

[radiocerk]

Chickenscratch..

The electronic or faxed scripts are fantastic, as long as the printers at the doctor's don't suck big time.

As far as reading the doctor handwriting.... practice. When I was first a tech, I couldn't read any of it, now it's rather rare that I can't read one.

As a side note: One of the pharmacist trade magazines has a little section on the really bad scripts, kinda like a little test or contest. They take all the patient and doctor info off and just print the drug and directions, with the answers at the bottom of the page. I can't believe some of the scribble that passes for handwriting.

[Setsunaela]

wow that old man is a cantankerous old bastard..
on the handwriting note, it's probably a case of practice. Looking at the same way of writing over and over and either by process of elimination or by calling the doc to see what it actually says, you learn "their alpabet" That's what happened with some of the appliance techs whose handwriting i got to decipher from work order tickets. You just learn their way of writing the alphabet, and it's kind of like learning "azul" means blue, you learn that weird-squiggle-with-dot means j or some such.

[radiocerk]

Well, that works sometimes, until you find the five dozen drugs that look alike. Tramadol and Trazodone, Celebrex and Celexa, hell, with some doctors, it's hard to tell if they've written qid, or q.d. It's a lot of practice.