Can You Read These Rxs?   1. Four different pharmacists at
Express Scripts mail-order pharmacy figured that this
prescription was for Solu-Medrol, but then dismissed that idea,
because it is not available in an inhalation form, which was
what the patient required. When they called the prescribing
physician, they were told what it really was. Can you tell what
the doctor ordered?  2. When Paul Faerstein, PharmD, supervising
pharmacist and owner of Zuckerman Pharmacy in Brooklyn, NY,
received this prescription, he and his coworkers thought it
might be for Westcort at first. They were eventually able to
reach the prescribing physician, who informed them it was
something else entirely. Can you decipher this prescription?
Rx 1: Salmeterol (Serevent).  Rx 2: Noritrate 1% 30 g.