|Articles|January 15, 2019

January 2019 Vaccine-Preventable Disease
Volume 85
Issue 1

Can You Read These Rxs? (January 2019)

Can you figure out what these prescriptions say?

Rx 1: Shiela Narayan, RPh; Christina Tucker, CPhT; and Perry Chu, RPh, of Sav-on Pharmacy in Las Vegas could not read everything on this prescription. Can you read it?

Rx 2: Pharmacist Beth Willie, PharmD, of County Market Pharmacy in Springfield, Illinois, wrote, “The script says Gabapentin 200 mg PO QHS, but I was unsure what followed the directions.” Can you decipher the last part?

Answers:

Rx 1: Motrin 600 mg PO #40 q 8 prn; Soma 350 mg PO qhs prn #30

Rx 2: A 14-day supply

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