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This can protect you from medication interactions or from side effects if you have had a medication that you react badly to that is similar to another one. A lot of times people might not always remember every medication they are prescribed, particularly if it is an as needed medication that they might take once every few months.
This can protect you from medication interactions or from side effects if you have had a medication that you react badly to that is similar to another one. A lot of times people might not always remember every medication they are prescribed, particularly if it is an as needed medication that they might take once every few months.
I certainly agree that there are people out there who scam the system, but I'm not one of them. This system assumes everyone is "guilty before being proven innocent."
You have to show ID when you buy certain cough syrup at the grocery store. Do you get offended? Do you feel like you're being accused of doing something wrong? The first time I was "carded" at the supermarket for cough syrup I was a little miffed but I got over it.
As for the doctor's office doing "due diligence" on medicines, I do not object at all.
I ran into this issue this morning at a doctor's office (PCP) at a large healthcare system. I was in the office with the assistant, who does the blood pressure, etc., and she was reading off all the scrips I had filled recently at a local pharmacy. Some that she listed had been prescribed by my dentist, where I had some oral surgery a month ago. The dentist office has nothing to do with the healthcare system where I see the PCP.
I understand that doctors need to know all meds a patient is taking, but everything the doctors in a given health system have prescribed is already in their system. And I have to fill out a form prior to each app't listing everything I'm taking.
For a healthcare system doctor's office to be able to view all of a patient's past prescriptions online at a particular pharmacy, even if they weren't prescribed by that institution, just seems wrong to me. Too invasive, in my view. I didn't realize until today that doctors can view 3rd party pharmacy records online. The pharmacy is a separate business, in this case, part of a grocery store. What's next, the doctor's office viewing my grocery items at checkout?
My professional guess is that they looked at any controlled substances that you purchased
This is now state law in most states that a database of controlled drugs be available for any healthcare professional that treats you or dispenses meds to you
This prevents "doctor shopping"
I can't believe the number of times that one idiot or another would come into my store with an RX for Oxy or Percocet, etc and when I checked OARRS https://www.ohiopmp.gov/ and say that it had been filled at 4-5 stores (written by 4-5 doctors) in the past week. (Even though EVERY store and EVERY Dr's office is supposed to check EVERY time, some don't---They are in the process of being investigated in Ohio and I expect all hell to break loose)
I would mark the Rx and give it back and the idiots would swear on their children's lives that it wasn't them! Screw em!!!!
Really? Do you not honestly inform any doctor you are visiting of your current medications? I'd love to know why not, IMO this is risky behavior, but maybe I'm missing something.
Very short sighted. Your medical history becoming part of public record is the first step towards a Dystopian Society where eugenics will be practiced. (Think I'm exaggerating? How many TreeHuggers are out there thinking there's "too many people" for the health of the planet? How do they vote?
BTW- in over 40 yrs of practicing, I never once asked for "old records." I preferred making my own mistakes instead of repeating others'.
BTW- in over 40 yrs of practice, I never once asked for "old records." I preferred making my own mistakes instead of perpetuating others'.
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Originally Posted by RamenAddict
This can protect you from medication interactions or from side effects if you have had a medication that you react badly to that is similar to another one. A lot of times people might not always remember every medication they are prescribed, particularly if it is an as needed medication that they might take once every few months.
The problem is, the non-physicians take the history and enter it into the record. My experience since I have become a "civilian" on the cold end of the stethoscope is the docs just give it a glance at best and it doesn't sink in.
x2zy has it right in an earlier post (too early to rep you again): why should 329,500,000 pts be penalized because there are 500,000 cheaters out there?
"Medical safeguard" is just their totalitarian excuse to justify their control over us.
I certainly agree that there are people out there who scam the system, but I'm not one of them. This system assumes everyone is "guilty before being proven innocent."
I think patients should, at the very least in a situation like this, be informed by BOTH the healthcare system and the private chain pharmacies that all Rx are viewable by a particular healthcare system, including those Rx not prescribed by them.
I understand that there are scammers out there, and drug addicts, etc, but some of us simply want to protect our own privacy and control access to our own medical information.
There is no way that you can bypass this system
AND, how do I know that you are not one of those people who scam the system?
[quote=mike1003;56192361]My professional guess is that they looked at any controlled substances that you purchased....
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Slippery slope.
We should hope that docs themselves, their nurses and hopefully clerical staff exercise some modicum of professional ethics when dealing with pts' histories....But how sure are we that large chain, retail outlets, for instance, that have access to that computerized record have adequately screened & trained non-professionals like part-time help still in high for that same professionalism?
We won't even get into the problem of computer hackers.
There's absolutely no need for med records to be put in a position where they can be obtained in some setting other than the docs' offices/hospitals without specific request & specific release.
No, suspects are suspects and the rest of us should care less.
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