[Corpora-List] medication pronunciations

[Dr DJ Hatch]

Mike Maxwell and Lucian Galescu  may well have just offered the most
persuasive argument in favour of literacy I¹ve come across.


On 28/3/08 22:08, "Lucian Galescu" <lgalescu at ihmc.us> wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> Lucian
> 
> 
>  
> * * *
> Lucian Galescu, PhD
> Research Scientist, IHMC
> 
>  
> 
> On Mar 28, 2008, at 3:38 PM, maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu wrote:
>> Donna K. Byron wrote:
>>> Med names are notoriously OOV and the preferred
>>> pronunciations are difficult to predict
>>> from the spellings.
>> 
>> That strikes me as odd--surely they're mostly OOV for humans, too; so how
>> do humans decide how to pronounce them when they read e.g. the label on a
>> medicine?  (That's assuming of course that you're under 20, or you have a
>> microscope to read the label :-).)
>> 
>> Or is it the case that people have lots of different pronunciations for a
>> single medicine?
>> 
>>    Mike Maxwell
>>    CASL/ U MD
>> 
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