Investigating the Difficulties Faced by Iraqi Pharmacists in Interpreting Medical Prescriptions : Interpretation Perspective

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The profession of medicine is one of the best and noblest professions in society, and it is the profession of merciful hearts that works in the service of humanity to relieve people of their aches and pains. The profession of doctors is one of the most difficult professions in society, and it is one of the humanitarian professions that society greatly needs. In this research paper, the study reviews the medical errors committed by pharmacists for mistranslating the medical prescription correctly. This results in medical errors that patients fall victim to, and this in itself is a great harm. In addition, the study assumes that the reason for these errors is either in the doctors for not writing the prescription clearly or because of Pharmacists for not translating it correctly. The primary aim of this study is to identify solutions to the difficulties associated with interpreting mistakes brought by some pharmacists. Both qualitative and quantitative samples are used in the investigation. The quantitative samples relate to 10 Pharmacists in Diwaniya City while the qualitative samples are embodied in the relevance theoretic approach (Sperber &Wilson, 2002), As a guide for this work, it pursues Newmark (1988) with his translational strategies. The study proposes that recipe should be written on ideal rules because it is related to the humanity souls with clear handwriting\ typing with system of symbols acceptedly among pharmacists. This cognition process of good interpreting or grasping the contents of prescription very important in order to accomplish the aforementioned aims. The analysis demonstrates that many either pharmacists depend on mutual codes between them and doctors or they depend they rely on guesswork and this generates serious medication errors because this field does not bear guesswork or codes exchanged between pharmacists and doctors. It is also challenging to interpret a medical text when it is written in symbols or codes. According to the methods used, the study distinguishes between appropriate and problematic interpreting and identifies possible solutions to the prescription's interpretation difficulties.