It just really bothers me that the entire screening process is really little
more than window dressing. I don't put a whole lot of credibility into most
of it. Sure, hopefully a security screener will actually catch someone
trying to smuggle a gun through the security checkpoint, but how likely
would that be if some uneducated screener were too busy trying to figure out
and unravel the mysteries of a PDR while he was too busy comparing the
colors of my pills to the picture in the PDR? I'm sorry, but the whole
thing really has be scratching my head here.
Karen
Owings Mills, MD
"Cathy Kearns" wrote in message
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> "Karen Henelde" wrote in message
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>> But what really jumped out at me reading this thread was that someone
>> spotted a PDR at the security checkpoint. That's pretty scary to me.
>> I'm
> a
>> nurse, and differenciating among different drugs that look alike, names
>> sounding similar, etc. can sometimes be challenging. I doubt that any
>> employee at the airports doing the security screening have taken any
>> pharmacology courses, and quite frankly, could even pronounce some of the
>> names of commonly used drugs out there today. Talk about important
>> information in the wrong hands!
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> I suspect the PDR is just to make sure the name of the medicine on the
> bottle matches the look of the medicine inside the bottle. I don't think
> they are trying to look at random unlabelled pills and determine what they
> are. So if they are tiny pink pills, and the name of the medicine on the
> outside of the bottle shows up in the PDR as tiny pink pills then you are
> good. They aren't giving out pills. They aren't even trying to pronounce
> the names of the drugs. So I don't see the problem. I do see a problem
> if
> you are using perscription bottles that say one type of drug to carry some
> other type of drug. But that would be more the traveler's problem.
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