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|Articles|January 15, 2019
- January 2019 Vaccine-Preventable Disease
- Volume 85
- Issue 1
Can You Read These Rxs? (January 2019)
Can you figure out what these prescriptions say?
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Rx 1: Shiela Narayan, RPh; Christina Tucker, CPhT; and Perry Chu, RPh, of Sav-on Pharmacy in Las Vegas could not read everything on this prescription. Can you read it?
Rx 2: Pharmacist Beth Willie, PharmD, of County Market Pharmacy in Springfield, Illinois, wrote, “The script says Gabapentin 200 mg PO QHS, but I was unsure what followed the directions.” Can you decipher the last part?
Answers:
Rx 1: Motrin 600 mg PO #40 q 8 prn; Soma 350 mg PO qhs prn #30
Rx 2: A 14-day supply
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