I am aware that instructions for patients need to reflect the general
standard of literacy, but these two may lighten your weekend or
reduce you to despair.
1. Side effects warning in package insert for amoxycillin:
"See your doctor straight away if you . . . notice your . . . faeces
(otherwise known as poo) becoming paler"
2. Labelling on the outside of an Epipen (emergency
adrenaline/epinephrine injector, approx 15 cm x 2 cm):
"Do not swallow"
Dr David Bullock
Director, Wolfson EQA Laboratory
P O Box 3909, Birmingham B15 2UE, U K
FAX: 0121 414 1179 [+44 121 414 1179]
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