False EconomiesSometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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A lot of patients do.Ultimately it depends on the doctor, most refuse but some will just prescribe whatever certain patients want for an easy life. (And of course, sometimes there is a clinical reason.)
Most cases I come across are generic prescriptions, but the patient has told the pharmacy in no uncertain terms what brand they want. Strictly speaking it's unethical, because it probably qualifies as giving an incentive to a patient to bring an NHS prescription to their pharmacy - but it's the pharmacy that loses money doing it.
It's always pharmacists who work in chains, though - independents (who have to balance their own books) seem strangely unwilling to haemorrhage money.
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