Complementing Prescriptions

A prescription from the NHSL specified Methylprednisolone 80mg. It did not have the Rx, was not initialled or signed and did not give the dosage. The pharmacist contacted the ward house officer who, apologetically asked the pharmacist to issue two 4 mg methylprednisolone tablets.

A patient rushed into a pharmacy with a prescription and demanded its dispensing, without delay. The obliging pharmacist glanced at it to discover that it was a request for a seminal analysis. The pharmacist tactfully explained to the agitated patient what it was all about. Embarrassed, the patient rushed to the nearest lab.
A priest called his pharmacist friend to say that his doctor prescribed for him Vitamin E 400 mg to be taken daily for three months for his nocturnal cramps. He was aware that Vitamin E is an aphrodisiac. Scrupulously concerned about the possible violation of his vow of chastity, he inquired of the pharmacist whether he should take the Vitamin E. The counsel of the pharmacist to the priest was that he follow medical advice to cure his cramps, and to ask for God’s grace to resist temptations of the flesh.

An infertile couple produced two prescriptions, one for the wife containing the fertility drug Clomiphene to be taken once daily for five days from the second day of her period and the other prescription for the husband containing clomiphene to be taken once daily for a month. The husband was perplexed as to whether the doctor had made a mistake to prescribe the same drug. The pharmacist explained to the husband that the clomiphene for the wife was to induce the release of her egg and the clomiphene for the husband was to increase his sperm count, so that the fusion of the egg and sperm will cause conception and birth.

Mervyn Burrows