Can You Read These Rxs? (October 2016)

Rx 1

Pharmacy Technician Elaine Sapunarich at Rite Aid Pharmacy in Saugerties, New York, had no idea what this prescription should say.

Can you guess?

Pharmacist Dilesh Patel at Hillcrest Pharmacy in Merchantville, New Jersey, was stumped by this quickly scribbled prescription.

Rx 1: Methadone 10 mg; take 1 and ½ tablets daily for pain for 11 days, #16

Rx 2: Relafen 750 mg #60 1 bid, refill × 3

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