Medical Prescription Woes!

DriVer · 08-24-2007, 07:10 PM

I went to the doctor today for a routine follow up and everything was just about great except for a "right" sore ear. I told him about it and he said you have a mild infection in there and it's really nothing but I'll write you a script for some medication. Put 3 drops in your ear an massage it a bit.

He advised me on the way out not to go swimming and to plug up my ear showering. "Cool!"

So I take my script to the CVS and dropped it off and came back a few hours later to pick it up. It cost me a $5 for my co-payment because they were able to substitute the name brand for a generic and that was it. I also bought some aqua ear plugs.

Once I got it home, I never took it out of the bag, I opened the bottle and had Colleen apply 3 drops to my right ear.

As I was massaging my ear I happened to read the bottle and it said that that it for eyes. I'm figuring - this medicine is an anti biotic so I didn't think much about it ears and eyes are pretty close I figured some body with a higher pay grade had all this stuff figured out.

Reading the label a little further it said apply to the "left" ear. I'm figuring what the heck anyone can make a mistake - no big deal.

I keep on reading and on the bottom of the label in itsy bitsy type was the name of the prescribing physician, not my doctor!

Well! At this point I'm getting a bit upset, 3 strikes and you're out I figure so I call the pharmacist at the CVS and gave her the script number. The pharmacist there had just come in for the evening shift I guess and she looked up the number, pulled the script and checked everything over. She told me, I'm sorry but you have the wrong prescription!

So here's what we have:

<LI> Label clearly states anti biotic for eye medication.
<LI> Instruction were for the wrong ear.
<LI> Incorrect prescribing physician.
<LI> Wrong medicine.

She told me to come back and she would fix me up with the right stuff. I get to the CVS and I have to go through a reimbursement process for the $5 bucks. "Do you have your receipt?" Yes I just so happen to have it here. She scanned it and I had to sign a slip for a $5 dollar refund. I waited around for a few minutes and when she was done she called my name and I proceeded to the check out.

She ran up the prescription and she said, that'll be $10.00. OH good grief! You guessed it no generic substitute!

SO ... be careful when you go and get your meds. It can happen to you and it could be internal medicine!

DriVer · 08-24-2007, 07:10 PM

I went to the doctor today for a routine follow up and everything was just about great except for a "right" sore ear. I told him about it and he said you have a mild infection in there and it's really nothing but I'll write you a script for some medication. Put 3 drops in your ear an massage it a bit.

He advised me on the way out not to go swimming and to plug up my ear showering. "Cool!"

So I take my script to the CVS and dropped it off and came back a few hours later to pick it up. It cost me a $5 for my co-payment because they were able to substitute the name brand for a generic and that was it. I also bought some aqua ear plugs.

Once I got it home, I never took it out of the bag, I opened the bottle and had Colleen apply 3 drops to my right ear.

As I was massaging my ear I happened to read the bottle and it said that that it for eyes. I'm figuring - this medicine is an anti biotic so I didn't think much about it ears and eyes are pretty close I figured some body with a higher pay grade had all this stuff figured out.

Reading the label a little further it said apply to the "left" ear. I'm figuring what the heck anyone can make a mistake - no big deal.

I keep on reading and on the bottom of the label in itsy bitsy type was the name of the prescribing physician, not my doctor!

Well! At this point I'm getting a bit upset, 3 strikes and you're out I figure so I call the pharmacist at the CVS and gave her the script number. The pharmacist there had just come in for the evening shift I guess and she looked up the number, pulled the script and checked everything over. She told me, I'm sorry but you have the wrong prescription!

So here's what we have:

<LI> Label clearly states anti biotic for eye medication.
<LI> Instruction were for the wrong ear.
<LI> Incorrect prescribing physician.
<LI> Wrong medicine.

She told me to come back and she would fix me up with the right stuff. I get to the CVS and I have to go through a reimbursement process for the $5 bucks. "Do you have your receipt?" Yes I just so happen to have it here. She scanned it and I had to sign a slip for a $5 dollar refund. I waited around for a few minutes and when she was done she called my name and I proceeded to the check out.

She ran up the prescription and she said, that'll be $10.00. OH good grief! You guessed it no generic substitute!

SO ... be careful when you go and get your meds. It can happen to you and it could be internal medicine!