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Reply With QuoteThanks for clearing that up. Now I'll be able to read my prescriptions.
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Thanks for clearing that up. Now I'll be able to read my prescriptions.
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Thanks! I have tried to decipher that many times. Glad you were successful! LOL
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As a former Pharmacy Technician, for many years I had to decipher hand written med orders & doctor signatures in order to enter those prescriptions into the pharmacy's computer system for inpatients at a 400+ bed hospital (UK Med Center). They would then be double checked by the Pharmacists on duty and verified as correct (or corrected by them).
It wasn't "quite" as bad as that chart, in most cases, but sometimes it could have been written in Sanskrit and I couldn't tell the difference
Thankfully ... med orders are now typed out on a computer & sent to the Pharmacy, and only a Pharm D (Dr of Pharmacy) verifies their correctness. Even Pharmacy Techs have to be "certified" (tested & with ongoing learning requirements) nowadays. I retired the year before certification was mandatory (at UKMC). I was a Registered Pharmacy Technician, 45yrs of service, and the first Pharmacy Tech to use/run a computer system in a hospital Pharmacy, in the nation (back around 1984). Even with all the computer's glitches & flaws, I was never so glad to not have to try and READ doctor's scribbles
... cp
