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Stimulants Since baking soda potentiates amphetamine, will it do the same for meth?

It's an abbreviation for the Latin term Per Os, meaning by mouth or orally. If you look on a prescription that's what doctors say. I just use it to feel smarter than I really am, plus every time I say oral I think of getting head:D.
 
THC2LSD said:
It's an abbreviation for the Latin term Per Os, meaning by mouth or orally. If you look on a prescription that's what doctors say. I just use it to feel smarter than I really am, plus every time I say oral I think of getting head:D.
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Ok, then I will say it.
Take your meth orally.
;)
 
Bigfanofthemdrugs said:
PO? i feel stupid for not knowing what that means
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Don't even feel stupid!! EVER!!

Anyway, I just learned it like a month ago, when I started pharma training. PO is orally, QD is once a day, BID is twice a day.... OS is left eye AS is left ear PV is vaginally PR is rectally...

And I have a HUGE stack of flash cards with a million other ones I've had to memorize this month.

Don't feel stupid. The doctors use codes to make it harder for people to change anything on the hard copy. If you don't know what it says, you can't change it.

But people still come in with a prescription for 10 Lortabs and they have added a zero. Like we can't tell...

THAT is stupid.
 
The medical community, like any other profession, likes to use nomenclature to make themselves feel superior.
 
Well said! Hear Hear!!!

or is it

Here Here!!!

anyway, doctors can be dicks over the phone. I'm not lying.
 
They can also be really nice! My last psychiatrist was an awesome guy, whenever I needed anything I'd just call his cell and he was always available, no matter what time I called he would answer within a couple of rings.

It's all about having a great relationship with your doctor, it's hard to find the compassionate ones though that's for sure!
 
Hey Tri, thank you for your positive response. I was getting a little too sour.

When you work in a pharmacy, and you can't make out the doctors notes on the hard copy, no matter what you try, and you call to clarify so that you don't end up with a DEA agent dragging you out, a few doctors can act like you must be special ed not to be able to read the scribble. They don't have to act that way... when we aren't sure, we have to call and ask. It's mandatory.

I hate having a doctor be rude, when he or or she could have just as easily made the choice to answer me nicely. Sarcasm is exceptionally rude over the phone.
 
^Hah, I know what you mean about doctors handwriting. I actually made my psychiatrist re-write my last prescription for Desoxyn since it looked like D~~~~~N.

I'm like "Uhh yeah, they're not going to be able to read this..."

Ugly, is there something else we can call you?
 
With my expierience a lot of dr do that to hide that they don't know how to spell the drugs name and they don't want to look stupid. It's true.

Some of them, especially nursing home, have 60 scripts to write in one spot and still have 4 more places to go.

I hate it. How can you transcribe or fill something you can not read? It's never the dr fault for the error. Nurses and pharmacists are the ones who have to make damn sure we get it right.

I do know that the drs are being fined for their hand writing in some cases. They are working on that from what I hear.
Many years ago they were taught to wright poorly so nobody could read their stuff and get in trouble. Times are changing and they are being held accountable.
 
Tricomb... that is the kindest thing anyone has EVER said to me on BL. I don't know why it bothers so many people that ugly is my screen name.

How about fugly? =D

Flame was my high school nick name because I have a ton of red frizzy hair. It was a lot lighter when I was a kid. It went from tow headed to strawberry blond to carrot, now it's darker, AND I'm getting grays coming in! I'm 53. I am through menopause. I shouldn't worry about grays. Its' just that long frizzy gray hair will scare children! I will look like a witch.

I don't do flat irons and stuff. I hate fucking with hair. It's curly. It's frizzy. I'm fine with it.

Call me Frizz. Almost all my high school friends signed my yearbook, "dear frizz"... (I just remembered this while looking for baby pictures for my daughter's shower in the attic.)

Frizz is the same thing as ugly. No one wants frizzy hair. IDGAF.

FRIZZ is in the building.
 
Zoeylynn said:
With my expierience a lot of dr do that to hide that they don't know how to spell the drugs name and they don't want to look stupid. It's true.

Some of them, especially nursing home, have 60 scripts to write in one spot and still have 4 more places to go.
ones who have to make damn sure we get it right.

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My doctor has monitors now in each examining room. Everything is entered on the touch screen monitor. Prescriptions are electronically sent to pharms. No hard copy required. He showed me a bunch of stuff while I was getting shots. It's excellent technology!!!

Signed,

Frizz
 
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Alright frizz, yeah my doctors are pretty high tech too now. I still need a paper hard copy for my schedule II prescriptions though unfortunately.
 
OMG Tricomb, that is going to be on the exam.

I'm SO glad you brought you that up.

Schedules are still hard copied.

You are helping me so much. I'm tired, but going through my flash cards one more time.
 
ugly said:
Don't feel stupid. The doctors use codes to make it harder for people to change anything on the hard copy. If you don't know what it says, you can't change it.
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Sorry, they aren't "codes", they are abbreviations from latin.

QD - quaque die - every day
TID - ter in die - 3 times a day
PO - per os - by mouth

I remember reading that since Latin is a dead language and all, pharmacists inadvertently putting the wrong dosing instructions on prescriptions and causing problems for the patient.
 
Thank you anon. I've been able to remember them all fairly easily because I took four years of Latin in college. I didn't want to post that. When I wrote it out, it seems sort of obnoxious, and the last thing I need to be is more obnoxious, so I backspaced it out. Sig origins are Latin. Their functions are codes. So I went with the function explanation.

I really didn't understand English until I understood Latin. I think it has much more capacity for clear expression. It's also full of declensions and other suffixes that bugged me and still bug me. But now that I'm learning medical terms, the Latin is serving me extremely well and giving me a bit of an edge over my training partners who will be my competition come Aug 1.

Latin is a dead language but it is still used in some situations, like this one, so it's not quite buried. Pharmacists have to know all the sigs. By heart. If a pharmacist fucks up a prescription by misreading a hard copy, he or she is looking at a lawsuit. STAT. We can not put the wrong instructions on prescriptions. There is no room for mistakes ever. I'm sure I'll get dressed down once or twice for fucking up. I'm bracing for it, and studying against it. The wrong instructions can cause serious injury, and death. The training I am getting has a block on that very thing every day. They try to slip wrong instructions by us all the time to see if we catch them.

Also, being at least twice the age of everyone else in the program, I've taken a lot of the drugs we are memorizing. Not that I tell anyone that. But I smile secretly when my lab partner asks me "How did you learn all those in one night?" If you put together all the drugs my mom has been on over the years, all the drugs I have tried, all the drugs my husband (who has several serious health problems) takes, my daughter in law's diabetes, my oldest grandson's cerebral palsy and seizures, I already have a distinct advantage over my 20 year old trainees. I used to take my mom's valium for PMS in 1974. She's been on everything. She's on Methadone now. I worry she won't live out the rest of this year.

Sorry. rambling thoughts run through my fingers to the keys. Point being I'm trying to stay positive and tell myself that this is going to work and I'm going to get a job and start a new career, even though other people my age are retiring. I have passed all my tests so far, including my drug test. (I miss herb really bad.)

The math is killing me. I have math anxiety and not taking benzos, it is worse. I don't like to multiply fractions, divide decimals, or translate ml to teaspoons. But I'm grown folk. I'll suck it up and do it, will to power.
 
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