Check Your Prescription

Those practising in hospitals would probably come across this problem. When you ask the patient if he is Tan XX, he affirms he is. When you ask for the IC number, you realise it is not the correct number. Ask the patient AGAIN if he is Tan XX, and he realises that he is not Tan XX but Tan YX. Starts getting huffy and will probably raise his voice asking how come the doctor gave him the wrong prescription. *roll my eyes*

Patients, please practise a bit of commonsense. When you receive the prescription, did you even check to make sure the prescription is yours? True, the doctor/ nurse assisting the doctor is at fault to give out the wrong prescription, but you are equally at fault for not doing a quick check. It is the same commonsense you use when you check your bank book after you deposit money with the bank. It is just to make sure the bank returned the correct book and the correct amount of money was credited into the book.

Doing this quick check before you even leave the clinic to proceed to the pharmacy would certainly save us all a lot of time and agony. Time is saved on us having to contact the doctor and waiting for the doctor's reply. Time is also saved on having to wait for the nurse to send the prescription over to the pharmacy. Be thankful if the pharmacist bothered contacting the doctor and arrange for the nurse to send the prescription over, and stop complaining that you had to wait for long. If you are not happy, go back to the clinic yourself to pick up the prescription.

Oh, and did I mention you have to be thankful to the pharmacist? I was referring to my colleagues, because yours truly would just send you straight back to the clinic to retrieve the correct prescription.