"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2016-05-15 10:04 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> Used to be doctors wrote Rx
>> with a pen on paper but now they are *required* to send Rx
>> electronically. Try to remember when you last received anything
>> handwritten via snail mail.
>
>
> That must depend on where you are. Doctors still write prescriptions with
> pen and paper here. We frequently receive hand written notes and letters.
> My wife and one sister in law both went to the same private school and the
> seem to live to send hand written notes.

No hand written here. In fact they are almost always sent straight to the
pharmacy. I have been told that controlled substances are an exception.
They can not be sent electronically.