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Medical prescription
Health-care communication from a physician to a pharmacist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Doctor's orders" redirects here. For other uses, see Doctor's orders (disambiguation).
A prescription, often abbreviated ℞ or Rx, is a formal communication from a physician or other registered healthcare professional to a pharmacist, authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific patient. Historically, it was a physician's instruction to an apothecary listing the materials to be compounded into a treatment—the symbol ℞ (a capital letter R, crossed to indicate abbreviation) comes from the first word of a medieval prescription, Latin recipere (lit. 'take thou'), that gave the list of the materials to be compounded.
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