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  2. Medical scribe - Wikipedia

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    A medical scribe is an allied health paraprofessional who specializes in charting physician-patient encounters in real time, such as during medical examinations.They also locate information and patients for physicians and complete forms needed for patient care.

  3. Hanlon's razor - Wikipedia

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    Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states: [1]. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. It is a philosophical razor that suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior.

  4. Medical prescription - Wikipedia

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    The prescription symbol, ℞, as printed on the blister pack of a prescription drug. A prescription, often abbreviated ℞ or Rx, is a formal communication from physicians or other registered healthcare professionals to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient.

  5. Prescription - Wikipedia

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    Custom (law), a right enjoyed through long use Easement by prescription, acquisition of private property rights through uncontested use; Prescription (sovereignty transfer), acquisition of sovereignty through uncontested use

  6. List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).

  7. Electronic prescribing - Wikipedia

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    Prescribe or add new medication and select the pharmacy where the prescription will be filled. Work with an existing medication within the practice, this can involve viewing details of a medication, remove a medication from the active medication list, change dose, etc., for a medication or renew one or more medications; Printing prescriptions

  8. Prescribing pharmacist - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Ontario, pharmacists can prescribe medications for minor ailments but cannot order lab tests, necessitating a visit to a doctor for further evaluation. As of August 2024, pharmacists in the province of British Columbia can prescribe medications for minor ailments, adapt prescriptions written by other prescribers (with certain ...

  9. Proscription - Wikipedia

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    The Proscribed Royalist, 1651, painted by John Everett Millais c. 1853, in which a Puritan woman hides a fleeing Royalist proscript in the hollow of a tree. Proscription (Latin: proscriptio) is, in current usage, a 'decree of condemnation to death or banishment' (Oxford English Dictionary) and can be used in a political context to refer to state-approved murder or banishment.