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To expect more privacy at the GPs

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GSfordays · 14/08/2018 14:05

I was recently prescribed pregabaline by my psychiatrist.

I went to the GP today to see if the prescription had arrived.

Busy but very quiet waiting room. I asked the receptionist if she had a prescription for me to pick up. She asked what it was for and I lent over and whispered to her pregabaline.

She looks at her screen and says in a loud voice “no the only scripts I have on my screen for you are Sertraline and diazepam”

AIBU to think there was no need for her to read those out in front of everyone? She could have just said no I don’t have it here?

OP posts:
olderthanyouthink · 14/08/2018 15:45

I hated my old GP surgery, it was in a 1930's semi, the little hole in the wall to talk to the receptionist was right in between some of the seats (arranged around the old dinning room against the wall).

Really horrible trying to whisper that you have a UTI and need a sample pot and then having to stand queuing in the middle of the room with the full sample pot after.

In a small town with basically one GP that is really shitty, luckily for me I was a newcomer/outsider so I didn't know anyone but it's still unpleasant and probably puts people off going.

HotblackDesiatoto · 14/08/2018 15:46

the only people that I have EVER heard say 'script' are people with opiate addiction issues

Well if you move in circles with many opiate addicts that's probably true. I don't, and doctors, nurses, chemists and consultants all use the word script.

FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast · 14/08/2018 15:52

yes, as I said, medics use it, and junkies. Not that I mix with lots of them, just something I have noticed over the years.
Carry on saying it if you don't belive me, just try not to say it in a slow moany voice..:)

Beingginger · 14/08/2018 15:58

I work in a pharmacy and we dispense 500 scripts a day, prescription is far too long! Everything we do is an abbreviation, medicine like a language of its own.

HotblackDesiatoto · 14/08/2018 16:01

yes, as I said, medics use it, and junkies. Not that I mix with lots of them, just something I have noticed over the years

Medics and junkies and everyone else. You must be around a lot of junkies if you have noticed it over the years to that extent?

FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast · 14/08/2018 16:03

in fact, no I am not 'around a lot of junkies' thank you, Hotblack. Nice try.

TheWickerWoman · 14/08/2018 16:04

I work in a GP surgery and ‘script’ is a completely normal terminology, we all say it.

I also agree that you should complain about the receptionist loudly shouting out what medication you are on, we are taught to never repeat back phone numbers, addresses, names (unless you just use the first name or the second name such as ‘Mr Jones’ ) we have to be so careful what we say.. to shout out what medication someone on, especially certain meds is really bad practice.

YeTalkShiteHen · 14/08/2018 16:04

Can we please stop referring to addicts as “junkies”? Especially the ones engaging with services to help them! It’s demeaning and dehumanising.

MissConductUS · 14/08/2018 16:05

We say script here in the US as well, or Rx.

HotblackDesiatoto · 14/08/2018 16:05

What do you mean nice try? You're saying you know how junkies talk and what they say and have notice this over the years....that can only be true if you have been mixing with and talking to junkies over many years. How else could you possibly know how they talk to the extent that you are able to warn others that you think they sound like junkies?

FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast · 14/08/2018 16:07

well yes obviously I have met a few over the years, but you were trying to make it sound as though I was surrounded by them or something - in fact you said it twice, just for good undermining measure.

Look, it's like it's mainly criminal types refer to a barrister as a 'brief'. I am just interested in language and how it's used. Sorry if it rattled your cage.

YeTalkShiteHen · 14/08/2018 16:08

A brief is a car where I grew up Grin

HotblackDesiatoto · 14/08/2018 16:09

Not rattled, just wondering why people say one clear thing and then deny it immediately. What's the point?

Topseyt · 14/08/2018 16:10

Bluelady, no. You are not alone. I couldn't give a shit about this either and I am used to ordering repeat prescriptions (we call them scripts here too).

Most people who did happen to hear would be unlikely to have a clue what the drug was or what it was for.

If I go into the surgery to order my medication I just speak normally. I don't bother to whisper.

DeathByGlamour · 14/08/2018 16:12

OP if it makes you feel any better I was prescribed pregabaline for nerve pain when I had a damaged disc in my back. No one would be able to just pin it down to one use.

PrincessDaff · 14/08/2018 16:16

My GP practice does this! So annoying!

The receptionist asks you to confirm the medication that the prescription is for before she will hand it over!!

When I was pregnant and had severe hyperemesis I was on 3 types of anti sickness medication at the same time and could barely pronounce them and could barely speak without vomiting but was asked every time I went to collect the prescription what the medication was.

FabulouslyGlamorousFerret · 14/08/2018 16:20

Gosh fourfried you must meet some dodgy souls! In all my years in the NHS practically every HCP (verbally) shortens 'prescription' to script! Maybe it's a regional thing

ch0c0milkrox · 14/08/2018 16:22

I say script
I'm a needle junkie
I get 200 a month
Diabetes Grin

happymummy12345 · 14/08/2018 16:24

I was once at a doctors who liked to shout out everything. For example you'd go to check in (before they had the machines), and they'd shout out all your information, name, address, date of birth and why you were there. Didn't really the whole waiting room to know why I needed an appointment.
It's awful I agree.

wonkylegs · 14/08/2018 16:24

Loads of people on long term meds call them Scripts as do most drs. It's a pretty standard term.
(I'm on long term meds and married to a dr so it's the only term used in this house)

ManicUnicorn · 14/08/2018 16:24

My GP calls its a script as well. As do the receptionists and the staff in the local pharmacist. It's standard terminology.

Rafflesway · 14/08/2018 16:28

I must be the only person alive who has never heard prescription being abbreviated to script. [Confused]

Misses point of thread sorry

DogInATent · 14/08/2018 16:29

Look, it's like it's mainly criminal types refer to a barrister as a 'brief'. I am just interested in language and how it's used.

Or people old enough to have grown up watching The Bill, or The Sweeney, etc.

... it's not Bucket, it's Bouquet ...

Rafflesway · 14/08/2018 16:30

Emoji/strikeout fail.Confused

Oldraver · 14/08/2018 16:30

Belinderbaur..That sound sexactly like the rigmarole at my pharmacy.

I go to collect my prescription, they go and root around a shelf, go to another shelf, then go to a card system, then go to the dispenser who taps away on the computer then go to the original shelf and after a while seem surprised to find it..every.single.time. My name ia almost at the end of the alpahbet so must be easier than most.

At least they have stopped coming and asking me several times 'when did you put it in?'