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How should numerals next to numerals be written out for medications? - Example inside


Posted: Jun 20, 2012

Doc dictates "omega-3 1000 mg, vitamin B12 1000 mcg, vitamin D3 2000 international units"

My feeling is maybe it should be expanded to "omega-3 one-thousand mg, vitamin B12 one-thousand mcg, and vitamin D3 two-thousand international units," but that feels wrong.

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

I like the words of and at - hmmm

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Omega-3 at/of 1000 mg, vitamin B12 at/of 1000 mcg....etc.

Of/At is what I do - also

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If my QA is REALLY strict on the verbatim I'll stick a comma in there. Omega-3, 1000 mg; vitamin B12, 1000 mg; etc.

I got corrected - once to

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omega 3 one-thousand mg, vitamin B12 one-thousand mg. In my opinion adding "at" is a whole lot less characters than spelling out the mg. Just depends on the powers of QA.

Thanks! Fortunately, not strict verbatim so I used of. - OP

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Thanks again.


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