Where are you guys getting these handwritten prescriptions from these days? They're either sent directly to the pharmacy or, if you don't know what pharmacy you want to use, it's a computer print out. Some places have outright outlawed prescription pads the last few years.
Some prescriptions HAVE to be wrote out or at least printed "blue script" all narcotics require a script in hand. I don't even think the physician themselives CALL in anything or even electronically SEND a narcotic script.
Some doctors have the special license to e-scribe CII's (Percocet, Morphine, Adderall, etc.) But, yeah, other than that those have to be a paper script. Milder stuff like Tramadol, Tylenol #3, & Xanax can be sent any way as long as the fax/paper script has a "wet signature" (not a stamp). However, a lot of doctors still give paper scripts but they are usually printed out then signed.
My best friend recently went to a local Fastmed for intense ear pain. The doctor concluded that she had a severe ear infection and wrote a prescription of antibiotics for 3 pills 3 times a day for 7 days.
After 3 days she was extremely exhausted, nauseous, and had pain/difficulty urinating so she called her general practitioner and he said he needed to see her immediately and to not take anymore of the prescription. They had to hook up IV fluids and check her kidneys & liver for failure.
Apparently the Medfast doctor was supposed to write 1 pill 3 times a day.
My friend could have died if she had taken the amount prescribed in it's entirety.
Currently her GP is getting copies of all documents from the Medfast and the CVS pharmacy because apparently not even cancer patients are prescribed that dose. I feel both should be held liable, the jackfuck with the PhD and the ignorant pharmacist who filled it. They both should have known that high of a dose would have poisoned my best friend.
The pharmacist has the job of catching that - they know doses. They should have known something was wrong. The pharmacist will most likely be held liable, not the doctor, because he is the person who has the final look. Pharmacists know dosages, drug interactions, all of it. They should have known this.
After 3 days she was extremely exhausted, nauseous, and had pain/difficulty urinating so she called her general practitioner and he said he needed to see her immediately and to not take anymore of the prescription. They had to hook up IV fluids and check her kidneys & liver for failure.
Apparently the Medfast doctor was supposed to write 1 pill 3 times a day.
My friend could have died if she had taken the amount prescribed in it's entirety.
Currently her GP is getting copies of all documents from the Medfast and the CVS pharmacy because apparently not even cancer patients are prescribed that dose. I feel both should be held liable, the jackfuck with the PhD and the ignorant pharmacist who filled it. They both should have known that high of a dose would have poisoned my best friend.