{"id":135,"date":"2007-05-28T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2007-05-28T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T02:17:17","slug":"intelligent-design-the-perfect-prescription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Design: The Perfect Prescription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/nymetro\/health\/features\/11700\/\">feature article<\/a> on New York Magazine about the redesign of the &#8220;Pill Bottle&#8221;, i.e. the bottle that doctors usually dispense drugs in.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Singapore or Malaysia, where doctors uses these little bags typically when dispensing drugs, in USA, it is almost always a little canister style bottle. Here is how it looks like (all crosslinked to the nymag site, so it might break&#8230;)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/nymetro\/health\/bestdoctors\/features\/pills050411_2_400.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>So when I found the article through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.galant-ho.com\/writings\/blog\/?p=225\">Wen Yao<\/a>&#8216;s blog, I was pleasantly surprised. I don&#8217;t think they patent much about the bottle so I think the local pharmaceutical industry can take a hint or two. Some of the problems brought up are really relevant worldwide regardless of the method of delivering the pills, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to differentiate Grandma&#8217;s pills from Daddy&#8217;s pills.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Come to think of it &#8211; it&#8217;s quite scary: long ago my mum sometimes play doctor and feed me with dad&#8217;s fever pills to save some money in going to the doctor.<\/li>\n<li>With plastic bags, colouring them can&#8217;t be so hard. I think it would be harder to keep track of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The notorious handwriting of the doctor is passed on o the nurse when I have to stare at the packet to decipher the single &#8220;floating&#8221; digit to decide how many times I have to take the pills.<\/li>\n<li>Expiry dates are non-existent sometimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So this is how Adler&#8217;s design for <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.target.com\/site\/en\/health\/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-004033\">Target Pharmacy<\/a> looks like, the Clear Rx system (or something like that..):<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/nymetro\/health\/features\/pills050411_1_250.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Reminds me of the new peanut butter spreads or the new Heinz tomato sauce bottles that stands on its cover \ud83d\ude42 Didn&#8217;t even know that &#8220;once&#8221; is eleven in Spanish. I guess then a badly written numeral 4 in Chinese context is dangerous as it an be mistook as ten (\u5341) in Chinese by careless patients.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t been to the doctor lately &#8211; any other cool new design?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this feature article on New York Magazine about the redesign of the &#8220;Pill Bottle&#8221;, i.e. the bottle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}