Can You Read These Rxs? (May 2016)

Rx 1

Dony Varghese at Naryana Hrudhalya Hospital in Bangalore, India, was not pleased to see this poorly written prescription.

Can you decipher it?

Pharmacist Sara Malek at CVS Pharmacy in Dearborn, Michigan, was baffled by this prescription.

Rx 1: Aldactone 25 mg

Rx 2: Ocean nasal q 6 hours × 7 days 2; triple antibiotic ointment apply inside nostril q 8 hr × 2 days

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