“ROTTEN WRITERS”
CHEMIST ON DOCTORS. > LONDON December 3, The Middlesex National insurance committee has censured a chemist for writing a doctor “a jnost improper letter” because he was unable to read the handwriting In a prescription. The letter ran: “I can’t dispense it because I can neither read nor guess it. Anyway, we are not supposed to guess. As a member of the Middlesex Pharmaceutical committee, I have been trying for years to force medical men who are rotten writers to use typewriters. I guess you come under that rule. It does not seem fair to your patients to write so illegibly. If the case were urgent you would sign a death certificate.” Members of a sub-committee stated that they had had no difficulty in reading the prescription.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2328, 23 December 1925, Page 14
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