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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.
Yeah, this to me is more important than the addict issue. If you're willing to list them then it shouldn't matter anyway, and this makes it easier for patients to avoid having to remember everything. I had strep a couple months ago, and I couldn't for the life of me tell you what they prescribed for me other than just that it was an antibiotic.
Not to mention, it avoids the issue of people listing what they thought the "important" prescriptions were, despite the fact that drug interactions can be complex and sometimes unexpected.
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?
Don't understand the outrage.....not even a little bit....
Why should it matter to you that your health care provider, your PCP, was able to access ALL of your prescriptions whether from THAT office or elsewhere???
Do you think that information should be hidden??? Who benefits from that?? Not you...
People have already outlined the rationale for why this type of accountability is a GOOD thing.
This isn't about a doctor's office being able to access your checking account or your employer being able to access medical records...
It's about your PCP having ALL relevant data regarding your health history...including recent medications prescribed anywhere....
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.
A couple of times a new provider and I would be discussing whether to try a new medication or not and prescription history came up. Looking through my history of past meds in the same classification prompted key questions about how those meds worked, didn't work, or whether I had had any adverse reactions. If one didn't work, why waste effort on another that might not either? If I had reactions, why tempt misery again? Morphine derivatives for example. A very good idea for me to avoid them entirely. I wouldn't necessarily be able to recall the dosage, exact formulation used before, but using a similar med would be counter indicated. A couple of chemotherapy medications I can't safely use again if a cancer recurs. I'd like my provider to see this history if I can't recall pertinent details from 20 years ago. I have nothing to hide from any health provider and I don't have a permanent photographic memory either. Privacy principle or not, it just doesn't worry me.
Last edited by Parnassia; 09-16-2019 at 05:48 PM..
Would you like an employer to gain access to those Pharma records?
That's as likely to happen as it is for your pharmacy to access your employer records. It doesn't work like that at all, the two are not accessible to each other in any way, shape, or form.
It helps to block people who visit several doctors in order to get multiple prescriptions for the same drug. This is a common behavior for people who are addicted to prescription drugs.
Doctors are getting alot of pressure this year to shorten those opioid prescriptions. They are writing weaker and shorter doses these days.
Some are even getting the licenses pulled, so I hear.
It's about time. Too many addicts and too many doctors over prescribing.
Hopefully, this will help.
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