I worked in a shop selling electronic stuff in the early '90s and baffling Chinglish was a thing back then...definitely not a modern occurrence born of bad autotranslation...
(, Thu 4 Jan 2024, 0:55, Reply)
Good auto translation has spoiled some harmless fun.
(, Thu 4 Jan 2024, 2:27, Reply)
someone's just hammered in lots of different short codes during labelling to generate gibberish. Perhaps to illustrate why proofreading is important, seems unlikely they'd have got it *that* wrong accidentally. Mind you, I've come across some howlers in my time.
(, Thu 4 Jan 2024, 8:16, Reply)
but depending on how it was set up they would have typed something like "N AC OD T QD TD Q3 [-HOURS] TD T1 T2 T3 1-2" to get that. I'm guessing the gibberish directions were on the original prescription, and a dispenser reproduced it on the label either to show how ridiculous it was or because they were really fucking stupid.
(, Thu 4 Jan 2024, 15:55, Reply)
I have plenty of prescription errors, which aren't much fun as a patient.
(, Thu 4 Jan 2024, 16:19, Reply)
all the terrifyingly frequent and common prescribing and dispensing errors are well lol.
(, Thu 4 Jan 2024, 22:48, Reply)
Noone ever accidentally prescribes me diazepam or pethidine, trigeminal neuralgia and all I got was this lousy carbamazepine.
(, Fri 5 Jan 2024, 21:11, Reply)
Like on my first day as an FY1 when one of the ward nurses asked me to prescribe forticreme for a patient and I had no idea what it was so I just prescribed it QDS Topical.
(, Thu 4 Jan 2024, 18:14, Reply)
Apart from the hilariously incoherent, inaccurate and lethal SC diamorphine doses for a palliative care patient in a nursing home (when I queried it, initial response from another GP at the practice was a weary "what's she done now") my favourites were the directions for diazepam 10mg tablets to be administered "one in each eye" and for Glutafin crackers to be "inserted once daily".
(, Thu 4 Jan 2024, 22:38, Reply)
Fish Curry:
Rice with Chicken and vegetables
(, Fri 5 Jan 2024, 12:06, Reply)