dispense as written
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dispense as written
Pharmacology An order on a prescription commanding the pharmacist to provide the recipient with the prescription exactly as it was written. Cf Voluntary formulary permitted. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
dis·pense as writ·ten
(DAW) (dis-pens' rit'ĕn) Instruction by a physician to a pharmacist not to substitute a generic form of the drug.
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