>Up here the nurses wouldn't do that, unless they were recommending a drug and might have prepared the form. The clerk might be a bit of a bottle-neck. It seems that doctors under 35 would input into a system if it were just as fast as writing (hard to do but possible) but the older guys are very resistant to this sort of thing. Usually with the older ones if they get some sort of payback for doing it, they can be convinced. Something like saying if they type the presriptions into the computer system, you will send them electronically to their private office for incorporation into their charts. Or give them online access from home or their private office.

In Hungary 1994 the Social Security was paying a 2000HUF monthly bonus to any dentist who submits the monthly report on a floppy. Not much in dollars, but given that the average salary was around 30000HUF, not negligible.