[india-drug] One Week Training Course In Patient Counseling (13)

["Nuru Mgori" <kaddumgori@yahoo.co.uk>]

[india-drug] One Week Training Course In Patient Counseling (13)
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you are right dr, prescription notes sometime should be in a long form, rather than creating your own abbreviations, assuming everyone will understand what you have wrote, this is for the betterment of the patient otherwise it will be a multiplex of confusion between the patient, pharmacy and the doctors indirectly you will come to manage your complication of drug under dosage or overdosage.
   
DR. Nuru Kaddu Mgori, M.D
WEILL-BMC
MWANZA
TANZANIA
  

Nusrat Shafiq <nusrat_shafiq@hotmail.com> wrote:
  [india-drug] One Week Training Course In Patient Counseling (12)
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Just wanted to share with the readers an interesting episode that occured in the OPD today. A patient was taking metformin on alternate days to my surprise. When asked why was he doing so, he reproduced the prescription where the resident doctor had written meformin 1gm AD. The resident had used it to imply after dinner, the pharmacist concluded alternate day and the patient was taking it on alternate days.

Writing a correct prescription is a matter of concern too!

Dr Nusrat Shafiq
M.D,D.M (Clinical Pharmacology)
PGIMER,Chandigarh
India-160012

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