WHAT IS A MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION

If you ever wondered when you get a piece of paper from a medical practitioner on which some random data are written!! Then this is for you to read.

            Prescriptions are handwritten on printed prescription forms Preprinted on the form is text that identifies the document as a prescription, the name and address of the prescribing doctor and any other legal requirement such as a registration number. Unique for each prescription is the name of the patient, date, the "recipe" of the medication and the directions for taking it and the doctor's signature.The symbol "Rx" meaning "prescription" is a transliteration of a symbol resembling a capital R with a cross on the diagonal ({{IPA|℞}}).

Both pharmacists and physicians are regulated professions in most jurisdictions. A prescription as a communications mechanism between them is also regulated and is a legal document. Many brands have less expensive generic drug substitutes that are chemically equivalent. Prescriptions will also contain instructions on if the doctor will allow the pharmacist to substitute a generic version of the drug.

Well that was some facts about a medical prescription. And I guess you got some idea about the same through this brief definition.





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