Can You Read These Rxs? (August 2015)

Pharmacy technician Teresa Caskey at Wilson Bearden Pharmacy in Magnolia, Arkansas, was perplexed by this prescription.

Can you decipher it?

Rx 2

Sandy, RPh, a pharmacist at Villa Park Pharmacy in Villa Park, California, couldn’t believe the handwriting on this prescription.

Can you figure out what it says?

Rx 1: Gabapentin 300 mg, 1 PO TID, #90, one refill.

Rx 2: Prednisone 5 mg, #60, 2 PO BID with food for 15 days.

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CAN YOU READ THESE RXS?

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