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How Might Gaining An Expertise Of Roots, Prefixes, And Abbreviations

How might gaining an expertise of roots, prefixes, and abbreviations used in the pharmacy field assist you in your practice? Is there a situation when it would be inappropriate to use abbreviations? How might patient safety be affected by pharmacy personnel who understand roots, prefixes, suffixes, and abbreviations?
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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HI.
Such examples are rarely - very very rarely reported.
Ideally if the Pharmacist has a problem in understanding he/she can always call the Doctor.
So the abbreviations do not cause any problems
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How Might Gaining An Expertise Of Roots, Prefixes, And Abbreviations

HI. Such examples are rarely - very very rarely reported. Ideally if the Pharmacist has a problem in understanding he/she can always call the Doctor. So the abbreviations do not cause any problems