Many patients have difficulty understanding what the doctor prescribes. It is also the case of a person who went to the ophthalmologist for a consultation, and when he received the prescription he did not understand much of what was recommended to him.
A patient did not understand the prescription issued by the ophthalmologist Photo: Reddit/CasualRo
He asked for help on a Reddit group: “What my eye doctor wrote here?”, he asks. The illegible handwriting of the doctor created amusement among netizens.
“Doctors should be required by law to write prescriptions on a computer. You say they teach them to write badly in college, otherwise they don't get the residency,” one redditor commented, while another added: “I have a theory that pharmacists also take a course in reading written by a doctor“. But there are situations when even pharmacists do not understand exactly what the doctor wanted to say.
“A bit ironic that the ophthalmologist gives you the prescription in writing”, was the opinion of another person.
There were also comments congratulating pharmacists on how they decipher the doctor's writing: “The doctor as the doctor, but I think the real hero is the pharmacist. That one must read and understand…“.
“What I find funny is that she scribbles on a piece of paper and you go with her to the pharmacy where she gives you what you need“, another person said.
But there are also quite a few cases where the treatment has been misinterpreted. Doctors' handwriting is also a big headache for pharmacists. “I think after being an apothecary for a lifetime you can go decipher inscriptions of extinct civilizations successfully“, another person joked.
He also received help from a doctor
Although people competed to “translate” the prescription issued by the doctor, in the end, a doctor also gave the complete answer:
“I am an ophthalmologist. The consultation and recommendations are: VOD= 0.9 fc 1 cct ( -0.75 dcyl ax 175') – this means that the vision of the right eye is 90% without glasses and 100% with a small cylindrical diopter (you have a small astigmatism on the right eye), no glasses are absolutely necessary for this. VOS=1 fc (100% vision on the left eye), TOD= 18 mm, HG TOS= 16 MM, HG (NCT) (the eye pressure in both eyes is within normal limits, NCT means non-contact, it refers to the method of eye pressure measurement – with that puff coming to the eye)“.
He also specified the prescription prescribed by the doctor, giving him, in addition, some advice. “Hylo Dual, ophthalmic solution, 2 drops 3 times/day (AO-both eyes) – you are recommended some artificial tears for eye dryness or for extra comfort if you work in front of the monitor. Omega 3, 100 m – 1 tb/day – recommended supplement most likely because the doctor noticed a lipoid infiltrate in both eyes – some small lipid deposits (fats) on the ocular surface – there is nothing else to do for this, just a peculiarity of your eye, you can possibly do the routine analyzes with the determination of cholesterol, it is not something evolutionary in principle and you only have to do the annual ophthalmological check“.
In conclusion, the ophthalmology consultation was within normal limits.
“The hero I needed. It was deciphered”, concluded the redditor who received the recipe.
