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Can You Read These Rxs? (May 2018)
Can you figure out what these prescriptions say?
Pharmacist Samantha Brantley, PharmD, and her team at Gayco Healthcare Pharmacy in Dublin, Georgia, had a tough time deciphering this prescription. Can you read it?
ANSWERS
Rx 1: Penicillin VK 500 mg, #20, one tablet by mouth every 6 hours.
Rx 2: Amoxicillin 1000 mg, #21, one tablet by mouth 3 times a day for 7 days.
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