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For your enjoyment (and mine) is this attempt by a team of French researchers to create a graphical language describing drugs (i.e. their uses and hazards).  Basically, they’ve created a simple, graphical language that they expect will make doctors prescribe more safely:  kind of a prescribe-by-numbers system, only replacing the numbers with pictures.

The first comment says it so well that very few people have added comments:

Catering to poor language and verbal analytical skills among physicians will probably have the unintended consequence of allowing the acceptance of even poorer skills among new physicians.

But then, I kind of recognize that trend from what’s happened to successive versions of the EMT-Basic curriculum.

Bonus link:  someone else’s marvelous takedown of this idea, complete with suggested additional symbols.

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