Can I Fill a Prescription Out of State

• #4

A patient gets a prescription for a certain medication from the doctor.
The patient and so goes to the pharmacist to become said medication.
The pharmacist fills the prescription by giving you the medication.

• #half-dozen

'filling/filled out a prescription' I think works all-time

• #seven

mimi2 said:

Please explain the significant of filling a prescription and between the post-obit two words which is the synonym of it?

"Carelessness in filling a prescription could toll a life."
ane. making out
two. working out

Thanks.

Hello Mimi2

In British English, the usual idiom is "to fill in a form".

When a doctor "makes out" a prescription, he writes down the details of the required medication on the prescription grade. He thus "fills in" the prescription form.

So I would cull #one.

MrP

• #eight

MrPedantic said:

How-do-you-do Mimi2

In British English language, the usual idiom is "to fill in a form".

When a doc "makes out" a prescription, he writes downward the details of the required medication on the prescription form. He thus "fills in" the prescription class.

So I would choose #1.

MrP

"Filling in a prescription form" is quite different to "filling a prescription" in Commonwealth of australia. The sometime is done by the medico, the latter by the chemist.

• #x

Charles Costante said:

"Filling in a prescription form" is quite dissimilar to "filling a prescription" in Commonwealth of australia. The former is done past the doctor, the latter by the pharmacist.

I concur, as an AE speaker. You lot fill a prescription by putting the appropriate medication in a canteen and bagging it upward for the client.

In the U.S. you increasingly hear scrip instead. "Could you lot write me a scrip for tetra-hydro-cannabinol?"
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• #12

Lest there be whatever doubt that British doctors make out a prescription, hither's the definition from Oxford Online:

make sth out
1 to write out or complete a form or document: He fabricated out a cheque for £100. The doctor made out a prescription for me.

MrP

• #13

Filling a prescription means producing a hardcopy translation of the medico'southward medication order for that specific patient. I guess it means the hardcopy that is printed afterwards you input all the patient information into the calculator. That hardcopy has several parts. Ane of those parts attaches to the medication itself, for example the amber canteen that has an oral liquid or tablets/capsules. Some other part attaches to the outside of the bag to tell the patient what medications are inside the handbag. The terminal part is stored in the chemist's shop for record keeping for 2 years. But the scan of the 3rd part is notwithstanding role of tape keeping but stored for ten years. This is from Ontario, Canada. Any dissimilar from ours? please do inform !!!!

• #14

In my BrE, neither doctors nor pharmacists "fill" prescriptions.

• #sixteen

I concur. In the Great britain, doctors write prescriptions; pharmacists dispense ​them.

British pharmacists also " make up " prescriptions, just not fill or make out.

And then, I would say in response to the original post, that the get-go sentence is not correct British English, and neither of the two options is correct either. (They may be in some other dialect of English that I know not.)

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