Can You Read These Rxs?

Published Online: Monday, July 11th, 2011

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Rx 1

The neatly typed portion of this prescription is such a tease; why bother typing if the other half is illegible? After trying to decipher the hastily scrawled addition, pharmacy technicians Paola Efron, CPhT, and Sara Long, CPhT, of CVS Pharmacy in Chicago, Illinois, threw in the towel and picked up the phone.

Rx 2

Chet Shah, RPh, of Rx Pharmacy in New Hyde Park, New York, is no stranger to messy physician handwriting, but looking at this script made his eyes cross. He had to take the extra time to call the prescriber’s office in order to fill it. Do you know what drug is being prescribed?

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Have eye-straining, baffling prescriptions? Send them to Pharmacy Times. Along with a clean photocopy of the prescription itself, your submission must include: (1) the name of your institution and its location; (2) your name and title (PharmD, RPh, Pharm Tech); (3) the correct name of the drug(s), strength, and dosing requirements; and (4) your telephone number. Please mail your submissions to: Can You Read These Rxs?, Attention: Laura Enderle, Pharmacy Times, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 300, Plainsboro, NJ 08536.

Brandon Young September 26th, 2011 02:09:5702:57:33 PM

You have the images from August for the "Can You Read It" prescriptions September issue.

Pharmacy Times October 4th, 2011 05:10:2005:20:36 PM

Hi Brandon - The error has been fixed. Thanks for letting us know!

Kelly Fowler, CPhT December 28th, 2011 08:12:4008:40:42 AM

That is horrible!! If those doctors can't write better than that, then they seriously need to look into e-scribe!! When I see scripts that look like that, it just makes me think that the doctor doesn't care for the patients safety!