Had had already
When we do a drug history( getting an up-to-date and complete information about the medicines the patient taking before admission) , we have to document and highlight any critical information e.g. antibiotic prescriptions or complicated regime etc.
these are the excerpts for one of the drug histories I did in the morning.
Amoxicillin 250mg/5ml oral solution- 10 mls TDS (200mls)
issued by the GP on 26/10/17. the patient had had already
12 doses before admission (last dose on 30/10/2017)
is "had had already" grammatical and sound natural in the context?
the idea; the patient was issued an antibiotics prescription on 26/10/2017 for 1 week but the patient could only take 12 doses before coming to admission.
Top answer
It's very clumsy and awkward. It would be simpler and flow better as the patient already had . Jigneshbharati before coming to admission.
- It's very clumsy and awkward.
- It would be simpler and flow better as the patient already had .
- Jigneshbharati before coming to admission.
- This is also clumsy.
- It would be better as before being admitted .
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It's very clumsy and awkward. It would be simpler and flow better as the patient already had.
Jigneshbharatibefore coming to admission.
This is also clumsy. It would be better as before being admitted.
0The patient had had already 12 doses before admission (last dose on 30/10/2017).
It is grammatical, but the post-verbal location of "already" strikes me as odd. It would be much better to put it between the auxiliary and the participle: the patient had already had 12 doses.
Further, the participle had could be replaced with take: the patient
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