While I really succeeded fairly well in writing legibly, at times haste made waste. One oldtimer I was doing admission physical and history on told me the young doctor in his central Maine town, didn't know nothin', his medicine had no strength. I was covering for two interns out sick, and having to cut corners. I momentarily forgot usual name for most commonly used laxative, which (fifty years ago) in that hospital was equal parts of milk of magnesia and fluid extract of cascara. In my haste, I wrote Mag sulfate,which is epsom salt, terrible tasting and far stronger than magnesium citrate. Later when I went past his bed, he reached out and grabbed me and demanded to know what that terrible tasting medicine was. I went and looked at the order sheet, and was deeply chagrined. But I went back and reminded him that he had told me the young doctor in his home town didn't know anything because his medicine had no strength. Well, I said, you can't say that about me.wwh