Saturday, May 31, 2014

Arrr - Exe

prescription-bottle

It has occurred to me that one advantage of having prescriptions labels generated by computer is that the bottles now come with my name spelled right.

Back when labels were being hand-made with a typewriter, my drugs almost always said they were for Robert Cough.  Habit and/or muscle memory made it nearly impossible for physicians or pharmacists to write C-o-u without the next letter being a g.

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