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The amount of confused euros ITT is hilarious. Yeah, the states is very backwards. Paper prescriptions, paper checks, paper social benefits cards. What most people don't realize, like in the meme, just because a pharmacy gets a prescription doesn't mean they don't call into the docs office to confirm the script. These are rituals from a bygone era that should have been long replaced by computers and near instantaneous communication.
Central EU, I get my prescriptions on paper. They also send them digitally to some system so I can simply walk into a pharmacy and pick up my stuff using me e-ID.
Also central EU. Some of my prescriptions are transferred socially via my health insurance card. Others are still on paper. Even if I get them from the same doctor during the same appointment, they might be mixed.
I haven't yet figured out the logic for which prescriptions are digital and which require paper.
There was a time when all you needed to call in a prescription in Denmark, was the doctors authorization number... Which was publicly available. Sure if you called in a prescription at a pharmacy across the country or sounded suspicious, the pharmacy would make a call back, but other than that all you had to do was pick a doctor in an area with lots of other doctors and near a large pharmacy, and you'd get whatever you liked.
It must have been so for +10 years before a journalist and a doctor blew it up, by having the journalist phone in prescriptions for morphine, barbiturates, and other recreationally applicable substances. I don't know if a doctor can still phone in prescriptions, but the immediate stop gap was to only accept prescriptions accompanied by the doctor's personal, and crucially private, SSN.
Most prescriptions aren't on paper anymore though. I have heard that Japan (a very tech savvy country) is actually worse than us with checks and faxes and certain other low/old tech solutions. Not sure if that is true but either way I don't think the US is unique in this stuff.
Yeah, occasionally, we'll request a paper one if we think we'll need to fill it at a random pharmacy, like when we're on vacation or it's for something that's likely out of stock.
Most US pharmacies seem to have problems transferring a script between locations, even within the same company.
Hmm, I recently had to deal with switching pharmacies (in the US) mid-prescription and I didn't really have any trouble. Went from CVS to a family owned shop.
It's not all the time... But, for example, last week, my wife had one sent to a CVS, apparently 10 minutes after they had closed. They didn't fill the script, but they did bill the insurance and were unable to transfer the script to a location that was open later.
About six months ago, I tried to transfer my script from our local target to another target nearby that actually had the item in stock. They said they'd transfer it. I drove over. They didn't have it. They tried to call the originating target CVS but they wouldn't pick up the phone.
Between the two, we decided to look into a mom and pop shop (of which there are precious few around us) the one close enough to make sense told us that our doctor was too far away. They were about a 20 minute drive back to there we used to live and we liked them. They were a #$%^ Johns Hopkins practice.
Walgreens f'd me over once because they couldn't scan my license. I had just renewed it for realID so my plastic license had expired. I had the paper DMV your license is valid and will come in the mail, use this paper in conjunction with your existing license until your new license arrives. I was trying to pick up a non-narcotic muscle relaxer because I fucked up my back.
I really really really hate pharmacies anymore. I should probably just order my shit online.
I think this was changed in Washington. I’m not sure if you can still write physical paper opioid scripts.
Sometimes, if you're lucky and some generous company has deemed you worthy of a measure of healthcare, your pharmacist (or the person working the register) will make some face or comment when they see you're prescribed something they have opinions on (e.g. ADHD meds, anti-depressants, I'm sure many other things.)
Sometimes if I'm feeling lazy, I get the Doctors move the prescription to a pharmacy closer to my house. Rather than going into town.
Here are Americans with their paper flimsies. But you manage to have electronic voting.