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AIBU?

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to think doctors don't read repeat prescriptions before signing them

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2shoescreepingthroughblood · 15/10/2009 17:17

collected dd's today
I had asked for paracetamol, the doc knows dd and knows what she has(he precribed it for her a while back)
yet instead of liquid, he put soluble tablets!!
so he can't have read it can he, makes me think the receprionist, does them and he just signs them without looking.....
(it is ok as chemist will swap it)

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ErikaMaye · 16/10/2009 18:24

Could I please take this oppotunity to knock SomeGuy off his soap box, as he is really starting to get on my tits now. (And is upsetting 2shoes which is against the rules)

alwayslookingforanswers · 16/10/2009 18:26

oh yes when I discover I've run out of calpol I've got plenty of time to wait for an order over the internet to arrive .

Still doesn't change the fact that REGULAR use of such a product adds up VERY quickly.

edam · 16/10/2009 19:45

Someguy, I think it would be A Good Thing if you were to recognise that for people who use paracetamol occasionally, fine, they should buy it over the counter. But people who have serious conditions and take paracetamol as part of their regular regime are entitled to have it on prescription.

Just be very grateful that you aren't in 2shoes' position...

SomeGuy · 16/10/2009 20:45

I don't have any information on other people's conditions. What I do know is that it is not reasonable to criticise doctors for not devoting a significant amount of time to examining a script for an OTC painkiller. I'm not a great fan of doctor bashing.

ErikaMaye · 16/10/2009 21:00

Its perfectly reasonable. Just like 2shoes' DD before I got pregnant I was on a hell of a lot of painkillers, and if they'd have got them wrong I'd have been annoyed too.

Do bugger off now, if you please.

macdoodle · 16/10/2009 21:06

I signed about 200 scripts today - and yes I did read them all - but I may just have missed a sol tabs that should have been a liquid (though probably not in a child)..

Oh I also saw about 40 patients, answered about 20 phone calls, answered about 20 queries, did a shed load of admin and paperwork!

I worked pretty much 10 hours solid, I really really hope I didnt miss anything serious, and if the worst thing I did all day was accidentally sign a script for paracetamol sol tabs instead of liquid, I wont beat myself up all night!

But I did look at every single script, and was there till gone 7 doing so!

SomeGuy · 16/10/2009 21:07

If you'd been that annoyed you could have gone and bought them yourself, not moaned on about the doctor. People make mistakes and receiving a pharmacologically identical form of a drug that you can buy OTC is not just cause for doctor bashing. If the doctor had accidentally prescribed morphine instead it would be more worrying.

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2shoescreepingthroughblood · 16/10/2009 21:07

good grief, talk about likeing the sound of your own voice.....

someguy if you actually read my posts, you would have seen where I said how nice my doctor was, and he is. he is a very understanding gp, who knows about SN.
but this was a mistake, dd should have been prescribed Liquid/syrup not soluble tablets.

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2shoescreepingthroughblood · 16/10/2009 21:09

macdoodle I understand that.
see thread title, I only asked if IABU to think a doctor doesn't see all repeats.
sadly someguy turned it into something else.

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macdoodle · 16/10/2009 21:10

I AM responding to the thread title - by saying I personally DO read every script I sign, and so do all the other GP's I know!

ErikaMaye · 16/10/2009 21:11

I don't think anyone is underestimating how hard doctors work, or "doctor bashing" as our darling friend here has put it.

SomeGuy · 16/10/2009 21:15

I don't think anyone is underestimating how hard doctors work, or "doctor bashing" as our darling friend here has put it.

Really? So how is it that the OP supposes the doctor could possibly have the time to remember that the OP's daughter takes liquid rather than soluble paracetamol?

ErikaMaye · 16/10/2009 21:19

have you read the thread title, dearest? Also if you read back, you will see that the OP has stated that her DD has SN and requires a certain type of medication, otherwise she is incapable of taking it. So its perfectly reasonable to expect the right meds to be described - for a medical reason.

TrickOrNinks · 16/10/2009 21:27

I don't think the OP is BU, far from it, but SomeGuy has a point.

My sister for instance will take her children to the doctors every time they have a runny nose or earache or temperature or stomach upset or sore throat.

When the complaints are singular.

She thinks she'll be seen as a wonderful parent if every little thing is checked out, and it saves some her money.

So it's an appointment for each thing. Even when she wasn't on Income Support she'd do it to save paying pennies for a bottle of Calpol / Nurofen.

Sometimes if she has a late darts match she'll delay the appointment until she comes home then she'll panic, cue out of hours Dr or A&E. Both children have been dragged to hospital several times when they should have been sleeping off their cold or whatever for no good reason other than she belatedly wants to be seen to be doing the right thing.

These piss-takers do exist.

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2shoescreepingthroughblood · 16/10/2009 21:28

now twisting my words.......
ffs do you not have a life SG?
or do you just like to stir?
A GP knows his patients, he has a pc, all the meds a patient is on is on that, he prescribed the liquid to for her in august, so hardly "doctor bashing" to question why a mistake was made.
I did not kick up a stink(would have if it had been her epilepsy meds) I just spoke to my chemist, problem solved.
for some egotistical reason you seem to want to row about it............boring

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2shoescreepingthroughblood · 16/10/2009 21:29

oh next time I won't take her to the doctors....
sadly a bad infection could kill her.....

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ErikaMaye · 16/10/2009 21:32

Yes, OP, how dare you keep wasting his time

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2shoescreepingthroughblood · 16/10/2009 21:35

silly arn't
love your fb pic by the way

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BobbingForPeachys · 16/10/2009 21:37

DH has been illlast week after his meds were changed for a generic- just a pe3rsistent migraine but nonetheless, why do GPs do it?

It's the 4th different prescription we've had (in terms of items, dh's has been on repeat for years) and 3 of those have been returned to GP by Pharmacy, including steroid drops for a new baby when salinewas offered by GP.

Barmy!

And the GP is refusing to treat my footdosorder which is causing me to use a stick on occasion because I won't give up bf even though a referral to physio will do it....

So 2shoes YANBU (and neither are you to cash a script where paracetamol is included n a list)

Most gp's are fab, adored our last one, a feware shite. Pretty much the same as with anything elsereally, but annoying when you are inconvenienced.

ErikaMaye · 16/10/2009 21:37

Maybe I should stop going back for my ADs as I could just buy a bar of chocolate over the counter?

Aww thanks It was taken in May, but am rather fond of it. Can't wait to be able to change it to one of baby though!!! soppy smile

SpoiltKid · 16/10/2009 21:39

Sorry, haven't read the whole thread but yes, I believe GP's do not bother to read repeat prescriptions.
I say that as someone who was on an anti-depressant (Paroxetine) for almost 3 years and only saw a doctor once when it was initally prescribed.
It was a bitch getting off it too.

alypaly · 17/10/2009 23:15

macdoodle .......i am enlightened and glad you and your colleagues read ALL your prescriptions........sorry the cynical,but in 30 years of dispensing i have to say you are in the minority. I am not knocking how hard doctors work as i see both sides of the coin. But,i dispense 800 prescriptions a day and if I make a mistake,i could kill someone, at least there are dispensers and pharmacists in your chain before the patient gets their meds,so a mistake should be spotted before the patient receives their meds. So Gps think they are under pressure..come and dispense ONE ITEM every 40 seconds ,day in day out,thats pressure!!!!!!!
One of the recent cock ups i spotted was a doctor that that had prescribed 8 Amaryl tablets 8mg (64 mg.......OMG)instead of one...think that might have caused a problem dont you. Constant prescribing of propranolol and salbutamol to name but a few. Also detrusitol instead of ezetrol just recently. And thats just a few of the less serious ones. Good job us dispensers are on the ball and prepared to phone with queries. just wish our doctors were a bit more receptive to queries rather than being thankful for the query that could cause serious problems.

Also worked as a receptionist too and seen gp's sign things without reading them.

Last time i rang for a telephone appointment a had to tell my Gp what strength canestan pessaries were and that they also came as a duo pack....I rest my case.

i have had a sleep problem for donkeys and i am given a repeat for nitrazepam without any consultation.....i am slightly concerned as i know the possible problems.Also phoned gp to say i had a chest infection and prescribed ciproxin over the phone.....FFS

bobbingforpeachys gps prescribe generics because thay are cheaper and it cuts their budgets by alot. Also the branded ones are subsitiuted for parallel imports. Whats wrong is when chemists substitute generics for branded and then claim for brands!!!!!!!!!!
Thankfully i have left the profession now as i have had enough, but i really miss the medical world....

macdoodle · 18/10/2009 07:42

aly doesnt sound like you loved it at all -you sound miserable and bitter!
I would never come on a public website, and slag off a colleague/s in such an unpleasant rant, but then I guess doctors may have a tad more professionalism! I'm sure your job is far more important!
I'm off, I dont know why I come on these dr bashing threads, there is always someone with a single anecdotal case who manages to make that a good case to slag off every dr in the country!

BobbingForPeachys · 18/10/2009 09:41

Mac perha[ps peopleare often looking for helpwith their single anecdotal cases? maybe someone oculd have toldme why I am walking in pain on a stick because the GP won't refer until I give up BF? But it's hard to post a query about any specific professional without a hundred others taking offence.

Alypaly yep I know why they do it, I just wish the GP had mentioned it to DH, rather than leaving it to me to try and work out why he started feeling ill (it's citalopram he takes,Dh didn'tt hink twice of another pack, but in about the year 1850 I had some nurse training so did catch on after he started to get the headaches)

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2shoescreepingthroughblood · 18/10/2009 09:45

"doctor bashing thread"
sounds like a guilty concious to me
my doctor is lovely, but he is human, he made a mistake

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