Are you sure?
My medication is printed off on a printer in the doctor's room.
He then signs the bottom.
From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:34511] RE: hospital inpatient computer system eliminates
non-metric units
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:51:48 +0100
> Of Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
>Next month, my hospital, Midland Memorial Hospital, is adopting the
computer
>software system used by the U.S. Department of Veterans affairs, called
the
>Computerized Patient Record System(CPRS). This system supports electronic
> medication ordering,
The issue of hand written prescriptions is live in the UK. Regulations
mandate that prescriptions controlled drugs are written by hand.
The Shipman enquiry found that Dr Shipman killed 215 patients between 1975
and 1998. One of the issues it raised was this mandatory requirement.
http://www.the-shipman-inquiry.org.uk/4r_page.asp?id=3139
http://www.rpsgb.org/pdfs/coun0410-C-74.pdf
