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Motivating the mediocre: Getting the maximum out of someone who’s giving you the minimum

April 7th, 2008    Posted by: Dr. Dobson

One physician’s faxed order to discontinue hydrocodone, marketed as Anexsia, was misread by the pharmacist as an order to discontinue Arixtra, an anticoagulant. Another doctor intended to electronically order clonidine, an antihypertensive, but accidentally ordered the sedative clonazepam because both appeared as “CLON” on the computer screen.

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