.50 mistaken for .05. As a general rule the prescription is written by a doctor who may have a sloppy handwriting. I have found errors where a zero was misinterperted as a decimal. This should have been caught by the pharmacist. Nurses usually don’t question doctor’s orders. Today most prescriptions are ordered by computer and if this was 10 times the usual strength the computer should have questioned it even if the pharmacist wasn’t involved.
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