Do patients read medication guides?
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NaPodPoMo http://napodpomo.org\xa0
Pronounce Drug Names Like a Pro Online Course https://www.kimnewlove.com
hydrocodone/apap 5/325 med guide, Click on \u201cMedication Guide\u201d for the written pronunciation.
Highlights from the Episode
I\u2019m publishing one podcast episode per day in the month of November 2020 as part of a challenge called NaPodPoMo.\xa0 It stands for National Podcast Post Month.\xa0 November is National Podcast Post Month, and the goal of the challenge is 30 podcast episodes in 30 days.\xa0 This is a bite-sized episode, which I\u2019m using to help promote my online course:\xa0 Pronounce Drug Names Like a Pro.
The topic in this episode is medication guides.\xa0 Do patients read medication guides?\xa0 This is a timely topic.\xa0 My younger son had all four of his wisdom teeth extracted by an oral surgeon on Monday. Unfortunately, now he has mouth pain and swelling. \xa0
3 medications were prescribed. Once we got home, I sat down and read my son\u2019s discharge instructions and everything that came with his prescriptions.\xa0 There was a lot to read.\xa0 I read one, short pamphlet from the oral surgeon and five pages of information from the pharmacy.\xa0 (There were five pages of information for 3 medications.)\xa0 I looked everything over, and to my surprise, I found written pronunciations for all three drugs!\xa0 If you haven\u2019t noticed these before, they look like drug names spelled phonetically. \xa0
Can patients interpret the written pronunciations?\xa0 I can read them because I know how to interpret the symbols, capitalized syllables, long and short vowel sounds, and other pronunciation rules that go along with a written pronunciations.\xa0 Unfortunately, there is not a pronunciation guide in any of the medication guides I received.\xa0 How is anyone learning these drug names for the first time supposed to get it right?\xa0 Even if there were a pronunciation guide in the medication guide, would anyone read it?\xa0 That takes me back to my original question.\xa0 Do patients read medication guides?\xa0 If they do, the learning curve seems pretty steep to learn drug name pronunciations from medication guides.\xa0
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