Can You Read These Rxs? (March 2018)

Rx 1

Marie Barone, RPh, of ShopRite in Jackson, New Jersey, had some trouble understanding this prescription.

Can you read it?

Rx 2:

Pharmacist Lissette Ferreiro of Med-Source Pharmacy in Miami, Florida, had to confer with pharmacy technician Frances Guzman to decipher this prescription.

Can you figure out what it says?

SEE THE ANSWERS ON PAGE 2.

ANSWERS

Rx 1: Cefzil 250 mg, #20, one tablet by mouth twice a day.

Rx 2: Genvoya, #30, one tablet by mouth every day.

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