[bobnamob]

The number of deaths attributable to misread treatment orders in hospitals is staggering.

I'd be very careful about sticking another layer of interpretation between doctor and treating nurse.

It's unfortunate med school doesn't teach block lettering like they used to teach to draftsmen/women.

[bradydjohnson]

Almost no medical school or hospital in the United States use paper or handwriting anymore. All orders are electronic.

[blitzar]

It says a lot that the illegible writing killed people yet appears to be affected by doctors in the same manner as a bimbo uses a vocal fry affectation.

Glad to see my scripts from the doctor these days are typed not written.

[TRiG_Ireland]

"Vocal fry" is a term some people made up to sound fancy. Actual linguists call it what it is: creaky voice. And they don't denigrate it. Men do it just as much as women, and there is (of course) no correlation with intelligence.

It is a very lazy stereotype, and (of course) completely wrong, to associate "vocal fry" with "bimbos".

[sneak]

Entering this sort of data correctly should be on the doctor. McDonald’s digital order style giant pancake buttons with huge touch targets with wide margins and large type on a huge touchscreen should solve the boomer objections.

Alternately, make it an app for the huge iPad Pro to solve the same problems. Make it as hard to fuck up as a fast food order. Disambiguation of input commands is a solved problem.

There isn’t really the will. Stupid windows apps with standard windows UI dropdowns that confuse and frustrate people not well versed with computer UI, running on standard low contrast small type displays with standard keyboard and mouse input, running on laggy RDP thin clients to underprovisioned workstation VMs in a data center is sadly the industry norm, and it still kills people.