Can You Read These Rxs?

Rx 1

When Michael Webb, RPh, pharmacy manager at Acme Pharmacy in Willingboro, New Jersey, saw this difficult-to-decipher prescription and was told by the patient, “It’s for cough,” the mystery deepened. A call to the prescriber was necessary for clarification.

Can you figure it out?

Rx 2

After Steve King, RPh, was presented with this puzzler at Snider Drugs, Inc, in Bloomfield, Kentucky, further investigation was required to determine the prescriber’s intention.

Can you read this Rx?

Rx 3

Dilesh Patel, RPh, received this prescription at Hillcrest Pharmacy in Marlton, New Jersey, and needed some assistance in deciphering the name of the drug.

Do you know what it says?

Rx 4

This prescription presented to Elaine Sapunarich, pharmacy technician at Rite Aid in Saugerties, New York, features illegible handwriting and required clarification.

Can you figure it out?

ANSWERS

Rx 1: Famotidine 40 mg 1 by mouth daily #30 for GERD-induced cough.

Rx 2: Trazodone 50 mg #30 1 at bedtime.

Rx 3: Tizanidine 2 mg #60 1 to 2 at bedtime

Rx 4: Suboxone film 8/2 1 daily #4.

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