Any misprint led to misinterpretation and to subsequent mess?  

Goofed up due to misreading and misinterpretation, many times . Mis print - not really.

Goofed up during an exam on misinterpreting a situation and question posed and wrote something which i later realised was a whole of of rubbish in respect to the questions asked.
Then there was this medical prescription which had wanted me to take a medication after meal. I took it before and what a fir of belching i got into.
And then coming to the health part of it, had read something about some exercises for a stiff neck only to worsen it as the instructions were not clear.

And what mix up did you get into due to the misprint ?

Hi Mou
what was that?
what mis print led u in mixing up

i am intrested in it

as far as health book, simply dont do anything without consulting ur physician.
and sure i want to get clarified if i feel any problem or mis print or refer to some other books

Take care

I am trying to remember any personal examples and I am coming up short! Twain's quote is very true though. It's human nature to assume the worst, especially when it comes to researching a self-diagnosis when we don't feel quite right. The brain has an uncanny way of seeing specific references and giving them far more priority than we really should! Why just accept we have a common cold if we can isolate certain references and then convince ourselves mentally that it could possibly be pneumonia!

I don't usually trust anything I read or hear. If anything piques my interest then I take the time to do further research. The internet is a very good way to validate health claims.Cheers!!

Hi mimpi1911! haha..yes, it happens to me and I just can't recall how many times. haha..I guess, I am in a hurry to finish reading and when I am in a hurry sometimes, I usually misread some instructions especially with my cookbook recipes. haha..
Take care and have a wonderful day!
lovelots..faith210

This has happened a few times. A couple of them were misprints in a chemical formula. Fortunately, I caught the mistakes and was able to correct them before I actually put the stuff together. Since these formulas are used in compounding labs all over the world, I called the company that tests them to let them know that the
numbers were wrong, and that could be dangerous if the person making the drugs was not aware that it was a misprint.

Then, non my end, once I was typing something about my friends, and called them feinds, instead. *L*

i didnt die from this incident but i was embrassed enough.......we were going to my in-laws house,when my daughter saw a tall building.i explained to her,it was a skyscraper.she then narrated to her grandfather(my father-in-law)),how mom showed her a skyraper.

Yes, I think Mark Twain is right, not reading the fine print on the health books or on the medicines could be sometimes be fatal. Recently, one of my colleagues's better half landed in trouble, when the chemist could not properly read the prescription and handed over her a double strength medicine, which she also failed to check and took on reaching home. She is already a patient and suffering from blood pressure etc., on taking the double strength medicine dose, she nearly fell unconscious and was taken to the nearby nursing home in the midst of the night. When the attending Doctor was consulted next day and he asked for the medicines, when were taken, then only he told my colleagues, how a callous mistake on chemist's part (and on their part also) could be fatal. I always try to read the health books very carefully and if I find contradictory details in two articles in two books, I do not apply them practically.
Good Post!