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on drugs, esp helpful to me

Posted By: sm on 2008-12-20
In Reply to: expander use - RJ

with my expander, is something a poster previously shared sometime back: to put in meds with the consonants, ie, Lasix is lsx, Protonix is prt. that helps with capitalizing proprietary drugs as well. myself, for dosages, i do mgd, for mg daily, and such.


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Exactly true. And you don't have to fool with new drugs and stuff, either. nm
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http://www.prescriptiondrug-info.com/Drugs/S/
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Stedmans for word reference, ADI or Quick Look for drugs.
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