Davis County Clipper | 1918-01-25 | Page 4 | Small Prescriptions

small prescriptions Prescript iona many physicians have a liable babit sit et writing prescriptions without calculating the quantity of medicine clae their patients are to take this leads lead to a great waste of drugs and much ua necessary essary expense which felds the new york medical journal to argi physicians to lit be more careful another evil result of this far too common practice Is that partly used prescriptions ore are stored away in the medicine chest and next time the patient has or thinks he be has the me same symptoms he be takes what he supposes to be the same medicine but the chief reason why physicians should not prescribe tour four or six cances when they know only one or two will be used Is that it la is wasting the drugs and making the patient pay far more for his medicine clae than la Is at all necessary