Spiky Bugger
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My BIL was recently VERY ill and he just spent 8 days in-patient with acute cardio/respiratory/kidney issues. MOST of that time was spent trying to balance his meds, so that the drug that fixes Problem A doesn't exacerbate Problem B.
He was discharged Friday afternoon.
-They issued a PAPER prescription, no narcotics involved...they could have called it in, faxed it or sent it electronically. We took the script to the pharmacy (sister didn't want to leave him home alone) and learned that the hospitalist did not print her name on the Rx, or her DEA#. It was on a hospital Rx pad, her signature was illegible. Pharmacy could not fill it. On a Friday after business hours.
-Monday, they went to LabCorp. The lab order was illegible. They had to contact the hopital and the cardio to figure out what was needed.
My sister was upset. She called her medical group; with her permission, I called the hospital Risk Management person and told gave her the above info. She said that there might be a problem and that she would look into it right away.
A couple hours later, the Hospitalist Bitch called my sister and told her that everything she did was just fine and there was NO RISK in her work and my sister, the pharmacy and the lab were wrong. My sister asked if everyone was lying. The good doctor hung up on her.
This time, my sister called Risk Mangement herself.
I'm thinkin' there MIGHT BE additional chapters? (When you send home a guy whose life is dependent on getting just the right combo of drugs with an unusable prescription and he can't test to see if it's working, there MAY BE a risk involved, eh?)
He was discharged Friday afternoon.
-They issued a PAPER prescription, no narcotics involved...they could have called it in, faxed it or sent it electronically. We took the script to the pharmacy (sister didn't want to leave him home alone) and learned that the hospitalist did not print her name on the Rx, or her DEA#. It was on a hospital Rx pad, her signature was illegible. Pharmacy could not fill it. On a Friday after business hours.
-Monday, they went to LabCorp. The lab order was illegible. They had to contact the hopital and the cardio to figure out what was needed.
My sister was upset. She called her medical group; with her permission, I called the hospital Risk Management person and told gave her the above info. She said that there might be a problem and that she would look into it right away.
A couple hours later, the Hospitalist Bitch called my sister and told her that everything she did was just fine and there was NO RISK in her work and my sister, the pharmacy and the lab were wrong. My sister asked if everyone was lying. The good doctor hung up on her.
This time, my sister called Risk Mangement herself.
I'm thinkin' there MIGHT BE additional chapters? (When you send home a guy whose life is dependent on getting just the right combo of drugs with an unusable prescription and he can't test to see if it's working, there MAY BE a risk involved, eh?)