Can You Read These Rxs? (November 2015)

Pharmacy Tech Tiffany Mitchell of Bryan Pharmacy in Enterprise, Alabama, was flummoxed by this prescription.

Can you figure it out?

Rx 2

Pharmacist Kellie Thierman of Rite Aid in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, had to stare at this prescription a long time before deciphering it.

Can you figure it out?

Rx 1: Ultram 50 mg #60, 1 PO q 4 hours PRN

Rx 2: Lactulose 30 cc BID PRN constipation 24 oz

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CAN YOU READ THESE RXS?

Send in your eye-straining, baffling prescriptions—now via e-mail and fax as well as regular mail! Submissions must include a clean photocopy or scanned image of the Rx; your institution’s name and location; your name and title; the correct name of the drug(s), strength, and dosing requirements; and your phone number. You can e-mail scanned Rxs to kmckay@pharmacytimes.com; fax them to 609-257-0701; or mail them to Can You Read These Rxs?, Pharmacy Times, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 300, Plainsboro, NJ 08536.

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