Can You Read These Rxs? (December 2015)

Adrián Røbles, CPhT, and other staff at a CVS Health in Santa Ana, California, were stumped by this poorly written prescription.

Can you decipher it?

Rx 2

Shiela Narayan, RPh; Christina Tucker, CPhT; and Perry Chu, RPh, of Sav-on Pharmacy in Las Vegas were completely perplexed by this strangelooking prescription.

Can you guess what it says?

Rx 1: Synthroid 100 mcg 1 qd

Rx 2: Levaquin 500 mg, PO qd × 10 days #10

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CAN YOU READ THESE RXS?

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