A Physician's Tale
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My family physician told me of an incident that actually happened to him
back in the early days of his practice.
He said a woman brought her baby in for him to see, and he determined
right away that the baby had an earache. He wrote a prescription for ear
drops. In the directions he wrote, "Put two drops in right ear every four
hours" and he abbreviated "right" as an R with a circle around it.
Several days passed, and the woman returned with her baby, complaining
that the baby still had an earache, and that now his little bottom was
irritated.
The doctor looked at the bottle of ear drops and quickly determined the
problem - the pharmacist had typed the following instructions on the label:
"Put two drops in R ear every four hours."