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PAGAL  +  126533 Sat, 13 Aug 05 02:32 AM

Hi Abbie

How are you?

Can you explain the difference between a Script and a Prescription?

Are they two different/are they dependent on each other?

Thanks...

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benita  +  126596 Sat, 13 Aug 05 07:44 AM

Hi Pagal,

SCRIPT

1.  script - text for play or film

2.  to script - to write or direct a play/film

3.  script - text of a particular language

PRESCRIPTION

1.  a piece of paper on which the doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to your chemist.

2.  medicene which a doctor has told you to take.

3.  a proposal or a plan which gives ideas about how to to solve a problem or improve a situation. 

 

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Captain Panic  +  128603 Fri, 19 Aug 05 05:44 PM

Sometimes doctors will shorten the word "perscription" into "script" (example: Dr. Smith wrote the patient a script for the antibiotic.)

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PAGAL, 4 yr 90 days ago

Thanks friends...

What about the difference between "scrip" and "script"?

Anonymous, 4 yr 29 days ago

Exactly, right, Dr. Panic!

In Canada and the USA we nurses and doctors  often use the term 'script' to refer to a prescription.  We  also use the term 'script' to refer to a blank prescription pad.  For example, " do you have a script laying around here that I can use?"  The public does NOT use the term script.  It is purely professional jargon.

 

Melodie

Anonymous, 2 yr 262 days ago
I have also seen "Scrip." The place I can recall is in Carl Hiaasen's novel, "Skinny Dip," page 111
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