[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 12/18/2011 3:55 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<4eee34a7$0$9815$c3e8da3$1cbc7475 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>  writes:
>> Hey Mr VAXman,
>>
>> what happens when the doctor tells you that you have high blood
>
> I do have hypertension.
>
>
>> pressure, asks you what is your biggest irritant, and you say "living in
>> proNJ" and the doctor orders you to move to pennsylvania ?
>
> I only visit my doctors for their prescription blackmail.  That is
> that added expense of already expensive medications requiring the
> doctors to execute a prescription yearly.  Most will not or cannot
> without having the patient visit them for a "money-letting" in the
> office.
>

Given the risks of being sued for malpractice, you can't expect your 
doctor to let you write your prescription and sign it without reading 
it.  I know enough of the shorthand doctors use to translate my 
prescriptions into English but there's no way that he's going hand me 
that pad of blank prescriptions and let me roll my own!
QD :== qua die or each day
BID :== bis in die or two each day
TID :== tris in die or three each day.
P.O. :== Per Os or by mouth.

Good books to have:
"Physician's Desk Reference" and
"Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary" F.A. Davis Company, Philadelphia

These books, and others, can help you understand your condition(s) and 
treatment.  They DO NOT make you a physician!  The books are NOT cheap!
I suspect that most people just read the directions on the bottle and 
follow them.  I want a little more.