How to Read Your Doctor's Prescription


How to Read Your Doctor's Prescription

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This is a quick look at what all of those abbreviations mean on the prescription your Doctor writes for you.

Interestingly enough, the author points out that "RX" doesn't mean prescription but is actually the latin abbreviation for recipe.

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user-icon Submitted by Mia Northwest on Fri, 2008-07-04 22:24


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No wonder you can't read it

Submitted by Idlewild on Fri, 2008-07-04 23:44.

Not only do doctors have terrible handwriting on prescriptions, they're writing in Latin.