1. Are you sure that your provider ordered NPH insulin three times a day?
2. NPH is an intermediate acting basal insulin that is usually injected once or twice daily.
3. Please make another appointment and bring in all the medications and insulin you are taking.
4. Thanks for letting me know. Let me double check the orders.

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