Prescription mixups

Dear Doctor,

When writing out your prescriptions please be aware of what you're prescribing when writing out the sig.

Example 1:

Robitusson AC sig: squirt twice up each nostril qd

Robitusson AC is a cough syrup, and I would imagine it would be quite painful to try and squirt that up your nose.

Example 2:
Keflex 500mg
Tk 1 to 2 tablets every 4 to 6 hours as needed.

When we called to verify the doctor laughed and said "oops. Sorry that's the vidocin sig (no shit?) The sig should be take 1 twice daily until gone.

Please do no laugh when you make this mistake, please be more concerned as the dose you initially gave her was 4 times the intended dose.

Example 3:
Albuterol HFA Sig: 1 puff *squiggle squiggle* qd

.... If four people can't read it, then they are indeed squiggles. Please write legibly to ensure correct dosing.


Notes for MD's when writing a script:

Please remember to write your patient's full name, J. Smith is not adaquete, and the date your wrote the RX. This is the law. You should know. Because then we get yelled at for not being able to figure out a prescription if there is no name written on the rx at all, and the law requires that you date all prescriptions since they do expire 1 year from that date, or 6 months if they are a C2-C4 rx. This will save all of us time. Patients will hassel us, then scream at us. Then we call you to verify, and for some reason some doctors take 2 days to respond. (wtf?) Then you get all bitchy at us for having to verify info you wrote because you didn't do it right the first time.

With love,

From the Pharmacy Staff