When your doctor scratches a few letters and numbers onto a prescription pad, a pharmacist must then translate those abbreviations into easy-to-understand instructions for you, which are typed ...

“If you go into a pharmacy with a prescription that says, ‘Give me 50 pills of smack,’ and that’s actually what’s written on the prescription pad, the pharmacist has a legal obligation ...

"Fifteen years ago a pharmacist considered it a very busy day to fill 100 prescriptions in a single day, but today they fill twice that many on an average day," says Patrick George, associate director ...

A doctor who stole a colleague's prescription pad and forged her signature had ... Many were dispensed but a vigilant pharmacist queried a prescription for Panadeine Forte. After noticing the ...

Many pharmacists are uncertain about how to deal with pre-printed prescriptions: prescription pads preprinted with the drug name, quantity, and, less frequently, directions for use. Although these ...