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How Do You Read A Doctors Prescription?

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How Do You Read A Doctors Prescription?

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• Ask your doctor or nurse practitioner to explain what the medication will do. • Ask for the name of the medicine, the dose, how often you are to take it and for how long. Write this down so you will be able to compare this with what you get from the pharmacy. • Understand that the “Rx” on the prescription in Latin means “receive thou” or “take”. These were instructions from a doctor to the apothecary chemist on how to prepare the compounded medication and how many doses to make. Just less than 50 years ago, almost all medications were made by hand by the pharmacist or apothecary chemist. In many countries that is still true, as the pharmacist weighs, mixes and calculates what amount of ingredients to add to a mortar and then grind and mix together with a pestle. Latin continues to be used frequently and the “codes” are short for frequency a preparation should be taken, ie. QD = “quaque die”, literally “every day”, BID = “bis in die”, literally “twice within day”. • Check the codes. •

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