how to pronounce numbers

[Wes Loewer]

Pronunciation is important.

My wife is a nurse and one day the floor secretary took a call from the lab with lab results. I forget the exact value, but she wrote down something like 1000500mg. The nurses on the floor were confused as the value was way too large. Finally they asked the secretary to read the number. She said, "one thousand five hundred milligrams."

After that, she was not allowed to take lab results any more.

True story.