Order up?
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It's still hard for me to believe that this is how pharmaceuticals are secured.
Pharmacist: "Should we dispense this potentially dangerous drug, it's a large quantity?"
Other Pharmacist: "Of course, look at the paper, it has the correct letterhead!"
It's basically like doctors sit around with a stack full of signed blank checks in their offices, and every once in a while someone steals one and makes a huge withdrawal.
There are quite a few special requirements that need to be met for narcotics to be dispensed. Can they be ignored? Yup! Also, there should be some numbers run first and in many states an online check is required as well.
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The amount of confused euros ITT is hilarious. Yeah, the states is very backwards. Paper prescriptions, paper checks, paper social benefits cards. What most people don't realize, like in the meme, just because a pharmacy gets a prescription doesn't mean they don't call into the docs office to confirm the script. These are rituals from a bygone era that should have been long replaced by computers and near instantaneous communication.
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Plastic surgeon, RX pad, script, Mofine... I guess Mofine is the new guy they sent to collect at the pharmacy. Italian surname by the looks of it. RX relates to a racecar of sorts, not surprising since surgeons are said to be wealthy. Not sure about the script part though : do pharmacists typically double as programmers ? or is it like, a movie script ? in which case it might just all be cinema. There's more to this message that we understand right now. Keep digging, Mofine. We'll get 'em
RX as opposed to TX. Receiver and transmitter in radio communications
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The amount of confused euros ITT is hilarious. Yeah, the states is very backwards. Paper prescriptions, paper checks, paper social benefits cards. What most people don't realize, like in the meme, just because a pharmacy gets a prescription doesn't mean they don't call into the docs office to confirm the script. These are rituals from a bygone era that should have been long replaced by computers and near instantaneous communication.
There was a time when all you needed to call in a prescription in Denmark, was the doctors authorization number... Which was publicly available. Sure if you called in a prescription at a pharmacy across the country or sounded suspicious, the pharmacy would make a call back, but other than that all you had to do was pick a doctor in an area with lots of other doctors and near a large pharmacy, and you'd get whatever you liked.
It must have been so for +10 years before a journalist and a doctor blew it up, by having the journalist phone in prescriptions for morphine, barbiturates, and other recreationally applicable substances. I don't know if a doctor can still phone in prescriptions, but the immediate stop gap was to only accept prescriptions accompanied by the doctor's personal, and crucially private, SSN.
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In the US, many states require controls (narcotics) be written on paper prescriptions. If they do allow digital prescriptions of controls, there's often a lot more hassle involved with getting approved to do it.
Because a letterhead on an odd sized piece of paper is so much harder to fake than a login over an encrypted connection
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RX as opposed to TX. Receiver and transmitter in radio communications
Thanks !! the fog of war is slowly clearing
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The amount of confused euros ITT is hilarious. Yeah, the states is very backwards. Paper prescriptions, paper checks, paper social benefits cards. What most people don't realize, like in the meme, just because a pharmacy gets a prescription doesn't mean they don't call into the docs office to confirm the script. These are rituals from a bygone era that should have been long replaced by computers and near instantaneous communication.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sometimes if I'm feeling lazy, I get the Doctors move the prescription to a pharmacy closer to my house. Rather than going into town.
Here are Americans with their paper flimsies. But you manage to have electronic voting.
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The amount of confused euros ITT is hilarious. Yeah, the states is very backwards. Paper prescriptions, paper checks, paper social benefits cards. What most people don't realize, like in the meme, just because a pharmacy gets a prescription doesn't mean they don't call into the docs office to confirm the script. These are rituals from a bygone era that should have been long replaced by computers and near instantaneous communication.
I think this was changed in Washington. I’m not sure if you can still write physical paper opioid scripts.
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£1 of morphine won’t last very long in this economy.
Just hit up Teresa May's husband, he's good for illicit drugs.
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the other typo makes it really hard to figure out whether "mophine" should have a [sic] on it...
not if you're a native english speaker from the usa, it's pretty cut and dry that she typed an extra L
