Comments on: Pre-printed Prescriptions

By: Overheard in the Waiting Room … | WhiteCoat's Call Room

Overheard in the Waiting Room … | WhiteCoat's Call Room — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:16:55 +0000

[...] Wonder how much you’ll get for that Tylenol prescription the doctor gave [...]

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:41:43 +0000

This is brilliant.Having put in ten years as a surgeon’s office nurse and all that comes along with it, especially with patients and their after hours pain scripts this made me laugh out loud.

By: Inthebiz

Inthebiz — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:31:13 +0000

Amen to that, these things have been happening since long before Obama was even a senator.

By: WhiteCoat

WhiteCoat — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:27:34 +0000

The stamps for Motrin are more to save time than to prevent prescriptions from being altered. Instead of writing out all the words in JCAHO-approved language, you can take a couple of seconds to stamp stamp sign sign and you’re done.

By: David Kaminski

David Kaminski — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:14:06 +0000

>”Welcome to the New Emergency Medicine – brought to you by Obamacare!”

John Apthorpe – I agree with many of your observations but one:
We don’t even have “Obamacare” yet and you’re already blaming it for current problems.

Let’s find something or someone else to blame. Later you can blame the changes that haven’t happened yet.

By: phil armada md

phil armada md — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:51:11 +0000

re all those patients who want scripts for their OTC Motrin and Tylenol, etc–i tell them that our president says that we are spending too much money on medine and that if the govt pays for their med it will cost $10 or $20, but if the patient pays for it, it will only cost $4 or $8. So I tell them that they have to pay for it themselves…”Welcome to ObamaCare!!!”

By: SeaSpray

SeaSpray — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:56:04 +0000

I think it’s funny the doc is amused with himself for doing it. Always cracks me up when a person thinks they are funny.

By: John Apthorpe

John Apthorpe — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:13:03 +0000

The old adage — “when it does not cost you anything you will abuse it and not value it” applies to free medications from MediCal (medicaid, ect. in CA)by prescription (i.e. tylenol, motrin). I see slackers demanding scripts for tylenol, motrin, pedialyte because “my insurance” (the public trough) will pay for it. These folks, of course, have a pack of Lucky Strikes in their purse/pocket and resent me interupting their telephone call to friends on their $200 I-Phone complaining about the long wait of “over an hour” to have their progeny seen for the self diagnosed “cold” or “second opinion” because their clinic doc would not give them a script.
Welcome to the New Emergency Medicine – brought to you by Obamacare!
It’s getting close to the time to retire.

By: Hopalong Ginsberg

Hopalong Ginsberg — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:58:45 +0000

@Gene: Thanks for the clarification. I should’ve remembered not to underestimate human greed and stupidity.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:50:34 +0000

Not legal in CA – all federally funded programs must have rxs written on security blanks.

For scheduled drugs – they must be handwritten.