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So, I have this prescription I need filled, and thus call my doctor (who I just got switched to, because my old, good one, moved away) to have it filled on the phone, because I have no opportunity to actually make an appointment and see him during the working day, as I myself work at a hospital and cannot just up and leave during the day. He refuses. And gets quite unpleasant in his refusal to do it, acting all condescending and talking to me like I were an idiot, and how I'll have to come in - yeah, come in and pay him even more money for an appointment!

That's when I loose it and tell him: "You know what? I'll fill it myself. Yeah, I can, but I hate doing it, as I like to avoid any sense of impropriety. So, when the pharmacy lady gives me a dirty look for filling my own prescription, I will make sure she knows I only do so because I have a douche of a doctor who seems to think that in asking for a topical creme, I asked to fuck his first born in the ass!"

I've already arranged to take my business elsewhere.

Seriously, a fucking ointment for a rash, and he has to try to act all powerful in refusing to fill it, and also be a total prick about it. Fortunately for me, I am not dependent on him. I hate to think how it must be for someone who actually needs to go by this buttwipe of a mini-fascist...

So, I have this prescription I need filled, and thus call my doctor (who I just got switched to, because my old, good one, moved away) to have it filled on the phone, because I have no opportunity to actually make an appointment and see him during the working day, as I myself work at a hospital and cannot just up and leave during the day. He refuses. And gets quite unpleasant in his refusal to do it, acting all condescending and talking to me like I were an idiot, and how I'll have to come in - yeah, come in and pay him even more money for an appointment!

That's when I loose it and tell him: "You know what? I'll fill it myself. Yeah, I can, but I hate doing it, as I like to avoid any sense of impropriety. So, when the pharmacy lady gives me a dirty look for filling my own prescription, I will make sure she knows I only do so because I have a douche of a doctor who seems to think that in asking for a topical creme, I asked to fuck his first born in the ass!"

I've already arranged to take my business elsewhere.

Seriously, a fucking ointment for a rash, and he has to try to act all powerful in refusing to fill it, and also be a total prick about it. Fortunately for me, I am not dependent on him. I hate to think how it must be for someone who actually needs to go by this buttwipe of a mini-fascist...
What kind of rash?;)
*shudders*

I hate doctors, that's why I tend to not go to them. Last time I went, something like ten years ago, it was in saudi arabia, and you'd be amased at how nice the doctors are there (to foreigners at least) and there's nothing wrong with them because a lot of them actually studied in western countries.

What kind of rash?;)

Oh, it's your run of the mill contact dermatitis.

So, I have this prescription I need filled, and thus call my doctor (who I just got switched to, because my old, good one, moved away) to have it filled on the phone, because I have no opportunity to actually make an appointment and see him during the working day, as I myself work at a hospital and cannot just up and leave during the day. He refuses. And gets quite unpleasant in his refusal to do it, acting all condescending and talking to me like I were an idiot, and how I'll have to come in - yeah, come in and pay him even more money for an appointment!

That's when I loose it and tell him: "You know what? I'll fill it myself. Yeah, I can, but I hate doing it, as I like to avoid any sense of impropriety. So, when the pharmacy lady gives me a dirty look for filling my own prescription, I will make sure she knows I only do so because I have a douche of a doctor who seems to think that in asking for a topical creme, I asked to fuck his first born in the ass!"

I've already arranged to take my business elsewhere.

Seriously, a fucking ointment for a rash, and he has to try to act all powerful in refusing to fill it, and also be a total prick about it. Fortunately for me, I am not dependent on him. I hate to think how it must be for someone who actually needs to go by this buttwipe of a mini-fascist...


a) Four years ago doctors told me I had eighteen months to live. They are full of shit.

b) Be less pissy.

b) Be less pissy.

No can do.

Just out of curiosity, if you work at a hospital, could you not have just stopped a doctor you knew in the hall and had him just glance at the rash and write the prescription?

:fluffle:

Just ignore it and treat it as a lesson. You now know how NOT to act as a doctor.

Oh, it's your run of the mill contact dermatitis.
I was perfectly happy when that post was going ignored.

Just out of curiosity, if you work at a hospital, could you not have just stopped a doctor you knew in the hall and had him just glance at the rash and write the prescription?
Would you want to show your coleuge your rash?

No can do.

Why not? Je pense suede est le domaine avec plus liberte. Dit il "fuck off".

No can do.

A less pissy Fass just wouldn't be Fass. :)

A less pissy Fass just wouldn't be Fass. :)

True that.

I < 3 pissy Fass.

Would you want to show your coleuge your rash?

Well, she knew it was just contact dermatitis. I wouldn't have a problem with it.

Just out of curiosity, if you work at a hospital, could you not have just stopped a doctor you knew in the hall and had him just glance at the rash and write the prescription?

I hate doing that. I really do. It's also somewhat frowned upon.

Less frowned upon than writing your own prescription?

I hate doing that. I really do. It's also somewhat frowned upon.
Hey Fass, wanna sign my "presciption" for "heroine"? See how corruptable that would be.

:fluffle:

Just ignore it and treat it as a lesson. You now know how NOT to act as a doctor.

Yeah, but he was just such a prick. You should have heard the tone he used, really, like I was retarded or something. So insulting.

A group II steroid. That was all I asked for. *sigh*

Less frowned upon than writing your own prescription?

I wanted to avoid both things, hence calling my own doctor. Now, I'll have to ask.

Yeah, but he was just such a prick. You should have heard the tone he used, really, like I was retarded or something. So insulting.

A group II steroid. That was all I asked for. *sigh*

I get that as a resident, especially from the people who work at the pharmacy. I just ignore them and go about my day. I just think of how I don't want to be like that towards my patients and move on.

Yeah, but he was just such a prick. You should have heard the tone he used, really, like I was retarded or something. So insulting.

A group II steroid. That was all I asked for. *sigh*

And you are so good at not being that way.

It's weird really, how that could have happened.

I get that as a resident, especially from the people who work at the pharmacy. I just ignore them and go about my day. I just think of how I don't want to be like that towards my patients and move on.

You're right, it is a learning experience. I just have little understanding for people who use prescriptions as a leverage against their patients, a power they need to wield. I understand not wanting to fill anything and everything, of course, but when they get anal about things like weak cremes and supplements, my eyes just start rolling.

And you are so good at not being that way.

That's because you people here are retarded, and this is the Internet. You've no idea how I am IRL.

It's weird really, how that could have happened.

It is weird. I explained everything, and asked for the weakest creme one can prescribe. A creme I have used before and tolerated very well. Something he would have seen in the chart he got from my old doctor, which he didn't want to look at, because clicking it up on his computer screen that is right there in front of him was oh, so, not something he seemed to want to do.

You're right, it is a learning experience. I just have little understanding for people who use prescriptions as a leverage against their patients, a power they need to wield. I understand not wanting to fill anything and everything, of course, but when they get anal about things like weak cremes and supplements, my eyes just start rolling.

You're exactly right, its all about the power.

You're exactly right, its all about the power.

You assuage my annoyance. :fluffle:

You assuage my annoyance. :fluffle:
That sounds offly straight of you Fass...............

You assuage my annoyance. :fluffle:

At least people assume you're a doctor when you walk in the room. I get "Is she a student shadowing you?"

WHAT?!?

Oh well :)

At least people assume you're a doctor when you walk in the room. I get "Is she a student shadowing you?"
WHAT?!?
Oh well :)

Ugh!

Though, I do get "this nice boy here is going to help you" all the time, even from the nurses! And the patients are "how old are you? Will I see someone older later? Can I?" :P

That sounds offly straight of you Fass...............

It's Aerou. 'Nuff said.

I've humoroids...

Terrible I laugh all of the time...
I need something to keep quiet, mainly during mass celebration, I'm the High Priest... bad fortune, no one doctor is able to help.
I think it's a political problem.
They think they are the only smart people in the universe, the others are just there to give them money.

However when I read how doctors are dying, I'm affraid... are they drug abdicts? Or do they know it's no cure for lotta illness and they keep it cool with too much morphin?

Yes doctors die, do they know that?

Ugh!

Though, I do get "this nice boy here is going to help you" all the time, even from the nurses! And the patients are "how old are you? Will I see someone older later? Can I?" :P

I get that too! The nurses always say "This sweet little girl is going to help you out." And the patients always look frightened. Like they've set a student on them.

It's Aerou. 'Nuff said.
You seem to be allowing it. T'is nearly a "cannot rape the willing situation."

You seem to be allowing it. T'is nearly a "cannot rape the willing situation."

I understand what Fass is going through, dealing with doctors on a daily basis, and just the hospital environment in general. Even though he's only a year ahead of me :p

I understand what Fass is going through, dealing with doctors on a daily basis, and just the hospital environment in general. Even though he's only a year ahead of me :p
Yes, yes. I get it "Woe is doctors." But assuaging him? You could have at least started with a back rub. I suppose that it is too late to change that to second date. O well, there is always white text.

That's because you people here are retarded, and this is the Internet. You've no idea how I am IRL.


Ugh. Spare me the liz phair songs Fass.

Ugh. Spare me the liz phair songs Fass.

Spare me the torpidity, Lacadaemon.

Spare me the torpidity, Lacadaemon.

Eh?

Eh?

Yes, spare me yourself.

Yes, spare me yourself.

This is why you can't get cream for your rash.

This is why you can't get cream for your rash.

Umm, I just had the prescription phoned in. All I have to do is walk the hundred meters to the pharmacy. Yeah, torpid suits you so well.

Umm, I just had the prescription phoned in. All I have to do is walk the hundred meters to the pharmacy. Yeah, torpid suits you so well.

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Baby, you are that ::something:: that pulls me through
So I'm giving it all to you
Giving it all to you

So, I have this prescription I need filled, and thus call my doctor (who I just got switched to, because my old, good one, moved away) to have it filled on the phone, because I have no opportunity to actually make an appointment and see him during the working day, as I myself work at a hospital and cannot just up and leave during the day. He refuses. And gets quite unpleasant in his refusal to do it, acting all condescending and talking to me like I were an idiot, and how I'll have to come in - yeah, come in and pay him even more money for an appointment!

That's when I loose it and tell him: "You know what? I'll fill it myself. Yeah, I can, but I hate doing it, as I like to avoid any sense of impropriety. So, when the pharmacy lady gives me a dirty look for filling my own prescription, I will make sure she knows I only do so because I have a douche of a doctor who seems to think that in asking for a topical creme, I asked to fuck his first born in the ass!"

I've already arranged to take my business elsewhere.

Seriously, a fucking ointment for a rash, and he has to try to act all powerful in refusing to fill it, and also be a total prick about it. Fortunately for me, I am not dependent on him. I hate to think how it must be for someone who actually needs to go by this buttwipe of a mini-fascist...

i was gonna wise crack about socialized medicine in canada..but i see your not there..so i am a buffoon i suppose.

hell,i got a tumor in my head that i cant get fixed,since in the good ole usa..money talks.

sorry to hear about your troubles.

I can't say that I enjoy going to the doctor, but I don't mind going to him. I think I'll be having my medical insurance changed soon, so I hope I won't have to stop going to him.

So, I have this prescription I need filled, You probably aren't going to answer this, but just out of curiosity, did you learn English from someone from Pittsburgh? (Or apparently, Northern Ireland.)

You probably aren't going to answer this, but just out of curiosity, did you learn English from someone from Pittsburgh? (Or apparently, Northern Ireland.)

I learnt English from British children's programming, Swedish elementary school teachers (I did have a Canadian English teacher in upper secondary school, but I spoke English by that time, so I don't think she taught me all that much, we just talked and she coached me for my Cambridge exam), and books and newspapers. Why?

i was gonna wise crack about socialized medicine in canada..but i see your not there..so i am a buffoon i suppose.

Any crack about socialised medicine is welcome. :)

hell,i got a tumor in my head that i cant get fixed,since in the good ole usa..money talks.

sorry to hear about your troubles.

Thanks, but they're fixed now... a tumour!? WTF?

Yeah, but he was just such a prick. You should have heard the tone he used, really, like I was retarded or something. So insulting.

A group II steroid. That was all I asked for. *sigh*


In my experience in the US it seems that there are two extremes with doctors, those that are nice and genuinely helpful (answering any and all questions, of which I always have a lot of, going out of their way to help and all) and then there are the dickheads who have the complete and total conscending attitude. There is no in between.

Nurses can be the same way, though. A few months ago my mom called the emergency room to see if she could get in for an appointment that night. After explaining her syptoms, the nurse said, and I quote, "You have to wait till tommorrow and make an appointment. Your symptoms sound like you have Cancer." (Mind you, she had a little bleeding and very mild pain, and a slight fever). I happened to be over, got on the phone, and read the nurse the riot act.

"Your symptoms sound like you have Cancer."

That's hilarious.

Nurses can be the same way, though. A few months ago my mom called the emergency room to see if she could get in for an appointment that night. After explaining her syptoms, the nurse said, and I quote, "You have to wait till tommorrow and make an appointment. Your symptoms sound like you have Cancer." (Mind you, she had a little bleeding and very mild pain, and a slight fever). I happened to be over, got on the phone, and read the nurse the riot act.

Holy crap.

I hate doctors for a plethora of reasons. The only doctor who could ever teach me was the son of a preacher. The self-absorbed bastard moved to New York without a second thought about my education.

That's hilarious.

No shit. Straight up, over the phone, by a nurse. I wouldn't have beleived it had I not been there when it happened.

I spent the whole night trying to convince my mom that she did not have cancer, that it was an insentsitive, uneducated dolt of a nurse who was having a bad day. Then i was irate, now, I just laugh it off.

needless to say, all my mom had was a small, mild bacterial infection.

I learnt English from British children's programming, Swedish elementary school teachers (I did have a Canadian English teacher in upper secondary school, but I spoke English by that time, so I don't think she taught me all that much, we just talked and she coached me for my Cambridge exam), and books and newspapers. Why?I just wondered because the way you typed the sentence I quoted is the way we would say it here in Pittsburgh. For instance, we would say "These batteries need changed" instead of "These batteries need to be changed." We drop the "to be" part of the sentence.

Just build yourself a robot body and be done with this "skin" which causes so many complaints.

I don't hate them but I think they have inappropriate social power. Also they do not appear to have a concept that they may not be 100% correct 100% of the time for 100% of their patients.

Move to Sweden. Respect for doctors is rapidly decreasing here. Oh yeah, those bastard doctors, trying to cure us! And they dare charge us for it too! :rolleyes:

It's the concentration on career and money among consultants especially that p*sses me off. The service they provide to patients is very much of secondary importance to them.

One satellite department in a local hospital closed because all the consultants said they could not staff it. What they meant was that none of them wanted to be out of the political loop in the main department and possibly lose out career wise. Except for one who was quite happy to go to the satellite dept but only when their car was being serviced at a nearby garage.

The recent massive (and I mean massive) payrise given to NHS consultants, which was designed to encourage them to take on more tasks and alleviate waiting lists, has lead to many of them going part time instead .... actually making the problem worse! One consultant I know personally, boldly stated that after he got his humoungous payrise there was no way he would be doing emergency on-call for the scum he insists on calling his patients. That was untill he realised the many thousands of pounds open to him if he did on-call, so now he does the "odd night" as it pays his mortgage (on a very nice house).

Most if not the vast majority of medics are good people who do good and vital work, but the actions and attitudes of many of them leave you fuming.

I think nowadays, most healthcare institutions discourage doctors from practicing "hallway medicine" and really, out of respect for people's time and space, it's best not to put people in that kind of situation either. Doctors aren't the only ones that can't walk down the hall without people harassing them to do some sort of job related function. I'm sure as a pharmacy technician, you've probably had people want to hand you scrips in the hallway and run them by the office at your earliest convenience (inconvenience). When working as a laboratory technician, I had any number of people want to get a pregnancy test done because they were too busy to make an appointment with a doctor or too cheap to buy one OTC.

Actually, the people that have it the worst: IT. If you work in an IT department in a hospital, it's impossible to walk down the hall without someone asking you about some computer problem that may or may not be work related or wanting you to check on something once you get back to your office.

If you work in a hospital, there's no excuse for not making an appointment. More often than not, you are right down the hall and it's just a matter of getting a few minutes away from your own job to go to it.

Got to love Doctors...

I've met one doctor in my entire life who wasn't a complete ass, which is probably why I'm going to become one, I should fit in just fine.

I think I know of maybe one or two doctors that I would actually trust. The rest of em, well...anyone that knows what's been going on with my knees knows how I feel about doctors.

So, I have this prescription I need filled, and thus call my doctor (who I just got switched to, because my old, good one, moved away) to have it filled on the phone, SNIP

I don't know about Sweden, but in the US, there are serious legal implications for a doctor filling a prescription for a patient he has not seen. Once you have seen the doctor, you can usually get refills by phoning the doctor.

I used to constantly be told I had staff by some stupid doctor who didn't do tests, went to someone else-allergy

No can do.

I rather liked the come back. Today I had a patient who kept going on about her cardiologist son and acted high and mighty, she saw me rubbing my hands together (i didn't even realise I was, it not like I was being Monty Burns) because thats what flies do before they eat. I informed her that no, flies vomit before they eat. After having shot her x-ray and walking away I just started laughing. The look on her face was classic.