Cheap TatOneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
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chthonic, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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Do cheap, useless, crappy prescriptions count?Get a load of this: I find a patient in incredible pain. She is taking Dilaudid, an opiate analog for pain. She's been taking it for ages, so her doctor should be well used to writing the prescription for her. Boring details follow: It has to be written new each month. You can't write for refills and you can't just call it in to the pharmacy. It's so strong, one of her pills would probably put me out; two would kill me. It's very similar to heroin in the way it acts on the body's pain receptors. Heroin, people. She has morphine instilled directly into her spinal fluid, liquid morphine she's taking every 4 hours, sedatives and downers every two hours plus synthetic heroin every two hours and she's still in pain.
So, get the pills-- Piece of cake, yeah?
No. I look at the prescription: the dorkknob has had his receptionist write it and he's signed it.
Signed a scrip that's written for someone with the receptionist's first name, the patient's last name and the drug is spelled DILANDID. You can't tell if she meant dilaudid or dilantin. Think any druggist in his/her right mind is going to fill that?
I had to call him at home and browbeat him into writing another. He tried to weasle out of it by saying:
"You can't call in Dilaudid" Yes, I know that, I've done this since you were in the 11th grade, fax one in.
"I don't have a fax machine." Then drive somewhere there is one!
"Well, I have one in the basement, but it's covered in dust." Do you think the patient cares? Look, I'll come and get it.
"Oh I live many, many miles from Ann Arbor." Aaaand your point is? The patient needs it, I'm coming to get it, it's only 30 miles, that's nothing. (I routinely drive 100 miles a day for work)
"Wellll, I guess I could drive into the office and fax one in." Gee, don't hurt yourself rushing to help her out. The office is 3 miles from the guy's house.
Maybe I should amend this to "cheap useless doctors". Cripes.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 6:51, 1 reply)
.Nice to know you have useless Dr.'s in the US too.
(, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 7:39, closed)
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