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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
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corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Lucian Galescu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 29, 2008
6:08 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">corpora@uib.no</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Corpora-List]
medication pronunciations</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>My guess is that humans have a hard time pronouncing
correctly the names of the drugs they're taking. But most of time one doesn't
need to: one either grabs the container off the shelf or presents a written
prescription to the pharmacist (or talks about what ails them rather than what
medicine they'd like to buy). However, there are documented cases of serious
errors, some resulting in fatalities, when people in emergency rooms
mispronounced the names of the medicines they were taking. FDA and USP's Institute
for Safe Medication Practices collect data about drug name confusions (both
orthographic and phonetic), but the general sense is that there is a lot of
underreporting. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:black;font-weight:bold'>Lucian Galescu, PhD</span></font></b></span><font
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IHMC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Mar 28, 2008, at 3:38 PM, <a
href="mailto:maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu">maxwell@umiacs.umd.edu</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Donna K. Byron wrote:<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Med names are notoriously OOV and the preferred<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>pronunciations are difficult to predict<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>from the spellings.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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That strikes me as odd--surely they're mostly OOV for humans, too; so how<br>
do humans decide how to pronounce them when they read e.g. the label on a<br>
medicine? (That's assuming of course that you're under 20, or you have a<br>
microscope to read the label :-).)<br>
<br>
Or is it the case that people have lots of different pronunciations for a<br>
single medicine?<br>
<br>
Mike Maxwell<br>
CASL/ U MD<br>
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