It seems to me that doctors write prescriptions not legible enough for ordinary!
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It's a combination of bad writing and Latin abbreviations. A doctor writes all day, patient notes, prescriptions - after a while his/her handwritting deteriorates.
However, prescriptions (or Rx's) are written in Latin. So if you were to take a brand of penicillin three times a day for a week it would look like this:
Amoxil 250 mg tid x 1/52
See what I mean? Abbreviations. Pharmaceutical shorthand.
Examples:
od = once daily
bid = twice daily
tid = three times daily
qid = four times daily
PO = by mouth
nocte = at night
Another example: "one or two every four hours by mouth" looks like this: "i - ii Q4H PO"
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maybe so they can not be forged?
I don't know but the pharmacists must take a special class on how to read really bad handwriting!
i've always thought that maybe it's because they go to school for so long and they take so many notes that eventually they get tired of writing neatly and they just write as quickly as they possibly can. i don't know though
because they feast off of people suffering trying to figure out what they wrote? actually i think its cause they have so many things to think about that they forget how to write better than a 1st grader
I finally figured out what the doctor writes to the pharmacist after many years of wondering. . . Here it is. . . "I got my money, now you get yours! They don't want you to see this message so they scribble it. . .
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25 years professional wordprocessor, 10 years IT Support at NYC Investment Bank. Been there done that. . .
Yes these doctors are not really doctors so be careful
not all doctors do it. anyway pharmacists could understand illegible prescriptions of doctors.
because they are doctors, that is what they do. Maybe they are in a hurry? Many i know will write out Rx's fairly ok, but when they do orders in a hospital, its very hard to read
Cause they think it's cool. And it's hard to read them for nurses.
they write in latin and in medical script - a form of short hand.
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medical classes
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