Dear Doctors,

At the Dauphin Clinic Pharmacy, we want to help you help your patients. One way we can help you is through compounding. Compounding is when a pharmacist modifies or mixes a medication for a specific patient with a prescription from that patients prescriber. Common reasons to compound a medication are to get a non-commercially available dose, to get a medication into a patient by a different route or to re-create a medication that is temporarily or permanently off the market. Here is our suggestion this month:

Compound Name	Gabapentin 1200 mg Suppository
What is in It	Gabapentin
Indication	Dr. Marais had a patient in hospital who normally took Gabapentin 600 mg caps 2 caps tid orally in community. Patient wasn't able to take medication orally in hospital. We compounded the gabapentin suppository and pain control was achieved.
How to Prescribe	Insert 1 suppository three time daily

We hope that gives you some ideas about how we can help you help your patients! Any questions? Call us at 638-4602.

Thanks,
The Pharmacists of the Dauphin Clinic Pharmacy