Close to Home by John McPherson for April 07, 2012

My doc must’ve slipped under the radar – he’s perfectly legible.

My doctor’s scrips are legible for the dosage and strength, but the actual drug’s name may as well be written in Farsi.

I hear they are coming out with the new lightweight microcircuit model; it’s the size of a watch.

My surgeon uses a preprinted form and just circles what he wants to have happen, then signs.

The device says Scrambler. So was his legible before?

Wasn’t sure which way it worked lol … a DEscrambler would be useful too

This rather obscure topic was used, in another strip, just 2 days ago. Coincidence?

No written prescrips where I go. It’s all e-mailed to your pharmacy. Go pick it up when you want it.

The dermatologist that I see is in a group that has prepared a half-sheet of paper with everything they have ever prescribed in the practice with checkboxes.

That the nurse fills in.

I checked with a colleague, a psychiatrist in Rio de Janeiro, he says that stereotype is universal – and frequently true.

I wonder if they make and sell a de-scramble to read it.