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EDITOR,--James Owen Drife suggests that the pregnancy health record "Combined with a 'smart card' ...could provide good pregnancy based data."1 Those who have suffered in the struggle to domesticate the awesome power of the computer chip eventually learn, too often the hard way, three important things. (1) Always keep the master version in the safest place and ensure that it is frequently and regularly backed up. (2) Too often the expensive hardware of last year is this year's dusty junk. (3) Above all, beware of creating more than one master copy of the latest version. If the text you have spent all day revising does not include yesterday's hard worked changes but is based instead on an earlier, unrevised version, hours of human effort will be necessary to merge the two sets of modifications into a single useful master copy.
In maternity care two further fundamental warnings apply: beware lest
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