[Linnear]

Originally Posted by Zoggite

Last month I was faxed a script for 10 oxytocin 10mg/1ml vials,one injection to be given i.m. daily, for an 85-year-old male(!) diabetic patient; I spent an hour and a half trying to get past the surgery's recorded message telling me that all their receptionists were busy, please hold the line etc...; when I finally got through, I was passed on to 3 different people before someone understood what I was querying; They promised to get back to me about it, but as it was friday...
Funnily enough, on the following monday I received a script for the same patient for oxycontin 10mg tablets, signed by a different doctor; coincidence?
Needless to say, I'm still waiting to hear from the GP who signed the first faxed script...!

Perhaps the Dr was trying to get by the whole not faxing CDs bit by faxing a Rx for oxytocin and hoping that you'd realise what he really meant. :lol:

It staggers me sometines what Drs do. I received a fax from a Kernowdoc (Cornwall's emergency DR service) Dr for Temazepam, I rang and informed him that you couldn't fax that and he asked when that happened. I said 12-18 months ago and he said he thought that that was when gel caps were phased out!

Another one got his receptionist to date an incomplete MST Rx because he was a bit busy. I told him that if his receptionist could do it then I would have done and not sent the poor patient's wife back to the hospital.

It's all good fun though isn't it? :twisted: