Hey guys... I need some advice. I had a legitimate medical emergency the other day which required me to visit the ER. I got treated thoroughly and was discharged later in the day w/ an e-prescription for (12) 10/650 Percocet tabs to be taken as needed. I went to my neighborhood chain pharmacy (arghhh! bastards!), turned the e-Rx in, and waited patiently in the lobby. After about fifteen minutes, the pharmacist calls me up to the desk and tells me that the Rx couldn't be filled because the ER physician had made a very minor, yet insiduous error in the area of the prescription where the directions were printed (SIG): instead of it having said "take ONE every 6 hours," it said "take "TWELVE every six horus." I asked the pharmacist if he could process it with the correct information but, but he went off on a tangent on how he couldn't modify anything due to the fact that it was a schedule II med, that doing so would be unethical and that he'd risk losing his license.
So he then tells me that I had to go back to the ER and obtain a new Rx without the error, which I couldn't do for various reasons (I was desperate and in pain for one; dependant on someone for a ride, etc.), so he managed to call the ER himself, talk to the ER doc. that prescribed it to me, and had the Rx changed instead to (12) Vicodin 5/300 tabs... over the phone. It was a quick convo. Even though the strength equivalence of one Perc. 10/650 is roughly equal to like three Vic. 5/300. I was, like I mentioned, desperate and in legitimate pain, so I just said "the hell with it" and settled for that.
Now the thing is, the original e-Rx I received for the Percocet (the one with the error) was actually given back to me. The pharmacist neither kept, voided, destroyed, nor wrote absolutely anything on it -- it's still in pristine condition as it was when I left the ER...except of course, with that effing error! I don't know if I can or even should, but shit, I'd surely like to have it filled.
What would you do in my situation? Should I try get ahold of the ER doc. on the phone, explain the situation and offer to bring the original Rx he wrote in exchange for a new one "just incase" I have another flare-up of pain, or to at least have as backup medication in another future emergency situation? Should I take a chance and try having it filled again at some ma' and pa' pharmacy, even though the doc. had changed it to Vicodin with the pharmacist over the phone that day? Should I just tear it up and throw it away? Give me some suggestions!
Thanks!
So he then tells me that I had to go back to the ER and obtain a new Rx without the error, which I couldn't do for various reasons (I was desperate and in pain for one; dependant on someone for a ride, etc.), so he managed to call the ER himself, talk to the ER doc. that prescribed it to me, and had the Rx changed instead to (12) Vicodin 5/300 tabs... over the phone. It was a quick convo. Even though the strength equivalence of one Perc. 10/650 is roughly equal to like three Vic. 5/300. I was, like I mentioned, desperate and in legitimate pain, so I just said "the hell with it" and settled for that.
Now the thing is, the original e-Rx I received for the Percocet (the one with the error) was actually given back to me. The pharmacist neither kept, voided, destroyed, nor wrote absolutely anything on it -- it's still in pristine condition as it was when I left the ER...except of course, with that effing error! I don't know if I can or even should, but shit, I'd surely like to have it filled.
What would you do in my situation? Should I try get ahold of the ER doc. on the phone, explain the situation and offer to bring the original Rx he wrote in exchange for a new one "just incase" I have another flare-up of pain, or to at least have as backup medication in another future emergency situation? Should I take a chance and try having it filled again at some ma' and pa' pharmacy, even though the doc. had changed it to Vicodin with the pharmacist over the phone that day? Should I just tear it up and throw it away? Give me some suggestions!
Thanks!
