Journal of General Practice

Prescription: Recommendation of Drug

Abstract

Jim Reid

A prescription, typically abbreviated â?? or Rx, could be a formal communication from a doc or different registered health-care skilled to a pill roller, authorizing them to dispense a particular prescription for a particular patient. traditionally, it had been a physician's instruction to an health professional listing the materials to be combined into a treatment—the image (a upper-case letter R, crossed to point abbreviation) comes from the primary word of a medieval prescription, Latin: Respire (Take thou), that gave the list of the materials to be combined.