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Solution to illegible handwriting puzzle

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni
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Thanks for all the people who ventured a guess. Only the medications are transcribed and the original image is posted below the answers as a reference.

Line 1: “Give Azithromycin 250mg IV”
Line 2: “daily”
Line 3: “D/C Pulmicort, Marinol, Lasix,”
Line 4: “Diflucan, Folic acid, Neurontin,”
Line 5: “Megace, Vitamins, K-phos, disalcid”
Line 7: “Decadron 2mg IV daily.”

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4 Responses to “Solution to illegible handwriting puzzle”

  1. Carole says:
    December 20, 2009 at 9:32 am

    A really good reason for so many doctors switching to computers to keep records and send prescriptions to the pharmacy.
    Frankly though this looks more like the writing of a criminal than a doctor.

  2. Guzzo says:
    December 24, 2009 at 5:06 am

    Wow, makes me glad we have POE where I work.

  3. Jerry Fahrni says:
    December 24, 2009 at 8:52 am

    I wish I could say the same. We’re probably 18 months away from CPOE implementation. Bummer.

  4. For the puzzle lovers in the group « Jerry Fahrni says:
    November 4, 2010 at 7:05 pm

    [...] The solution can be found here. [...]

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