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The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) is the UK's leading veterinary charity, carrying out more than one million free veterinary consultations a year.It was founded in 1917 by Maria Dickin to provide care for sick and injured animals of the poor.
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes). This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
PDSA may refer to: PDSA (plan–do–study–act), a quality improvement process; People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, a UK veterinary charity;
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It was created by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) in 2001, and is now recognised as the animal equivalent of the George Cross. [1] [2] [3] The Gold Medal is considered as the civilian equivalent to PDSA's Dickin Medal for military animals. An animal can be awarded the PDSA Gold Medal if it assists in saving human or non-human ...
A psychiatrist determined that Mar J had schizophrenia and gave her an article about the disease, along with a prescription for antipsychotics. The pills, she said, made her feel “zombified”—she’d sleep for two days straight and drool uncontrollably, and her leg became so numb she started walking with a pronounced limp.
Since 2000, fatal overdose rates involving heroin and prescription painkillers have increased by 200 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2013 to 2014 alone, the rates jumped by 14 percent.
Prescriptions may be entered into an electronic medical record system and transmitted electronically to a pharmacy. Alternatively, a prescription may be handwritten on preprinted prescription forms that have been assembled into pads, or printed onto similar forms using a computer printer or even on plain paper, according to the circumstances ...