With this spurious quantity of 9.000 tablets to dispense, I wonder about the poor pharmacy that had to dispense 9.005 tablets... and how they measured it with any kind of precision.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Significant Digits 101.000
With this spurious quantity of 9.000 tablets to dispense, I wonder about the poor pharmacy that had to dispense 9.005 tablets... and how they measured it with any kind of precision.
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Don't you love EMRs
I think I have seen where some European countries use a period instead of a comma as a thousands separator in their numbers. I suspect the prescriber was trying to order nine thousand tablets. ;<)
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