|Articles|September 7, 2019

Pharmacy Times

  • September 2019 Pain Management
  • Volume 85
  • Issue 9

Interactives: Can You Read?

Can you decipher these prescriptions?

Rx 1: Ted Aycock, manager of Back Bay Drugs, was baffled by this prescription. Can you decipher it?

Rx 2: Pharmacist Lacy Talmage of Kroger Pharmacy in Rome, Georgia, was stumped by this scribbled prescription. Can you read it?

Answers:

Rx 1: Singular 5 mg by mouth every night at bedtime

Rx 2: Ritalin 10 mg #120 1 PO qid

Send in your eye-straining, baffling prescriptions—now via email, fax, and regular mail! Submissions must include a clean photocopy or scanned image of the Rx; your institution's name and location; your name and title; the correct name of the drug(s), strength, and dosing requirements; and your phone number. You can email scanned Rxs to cmollison@pharmacytimes.com, fax them to 609-257-0701, or mail them to Painful Scripts, Pharmacy Times®, 2 Clarke Drive, Suite 100, Cranbury, NJ, 08512.

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