• Xanvial@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    This is like written IT shortcut like i18n or k8s. Just need to know first character, last character, and the length

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    My 3rd world SEA cuntry now uses computerised online prescription systems, even in the smallest government clinics. Cuts down on transcription errors and allows the physician to review your medical history before prescribing anything.

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      My 3rd world country has been working on it for over 10 years. And now old (retired) people have it… So the rest of us any day now.

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      Omg what if it’s a feature not a bug, a coded script as a defence against non Dr. Prescriptions.

      The existence of legible doctors disproves it, but I enjoyed the thought enough to share.

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    10 months ago

    I’m reminded of the episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm when Larry got a doctor’s phone number and couldn’t read it.

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    10 months ago

    Me at the pharmacist: “I don’t know, it clearly says ‘cocaine’ to me”.

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    10 months ago

    Which a doctor wouldn’t prescribe as it’s otc like everywhere.

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      They do prescribe it here, though. If you’re sick for work for something minor, you might get a prescription for painkillers, which in turn drives the price down to 1/4th of the OTC price. 😉

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        It ends up prescribed commonly in the US too, which may make some difference in the price depending on insurance, though from what I hear anectdotally unfortunately not often for OTC meds. Truthfully idk because we don’t have time to memorize that additional, inconsistent, constantly-changing layer of bureaucracy on the US healthcare shit-sandwich. Safety-net hospitals usually have people whose whole job is to help with stuff like this though

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        Is paracetamol expensive in the USA? Over here it’s about 30p for 16. You’d need to need about 550 tablets to make it worth getting on prescription. The advantage of the prescription here is that to get that many you’d have to make over 200 trips to the shop due to sales restrictions.

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        Yeah, not sure about everywhere else, but here apparently pharmacies don’t have the 60-tablet Aspirine-caffeine because it requires a prescription to be able to buy it, while they are allowed to sell you 5 or more 30-tablet packs otc… 😂

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      Since it says Paracetamol, and not Acetaminophen, I assume this is Europe.

      I was prescribed 500 pills for my migraines at 1/5 of the typical price in sweden, though in Sweden doctors don’t handwrite prescriptions, so who knows where this doctor is from.

      My personal guess is he’s from the mind of whoever made this fake text.

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        We’ve only recently started the change to e-prescriptions where you just have to show your ID card at the Pharmacy, but not all doctors do it yet.

        We still have a very large amount of old-school pill-doctors (as we call them here) that will write you one of these…

        You will get weirdly looked at at some pharmacies though. 😅

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      They’ll prescribe it, but in the US at least your pharmacy won’t fill it and you pay full price.

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          Well you should be because it’s not true. The pharmacist might tell you it’ll cost less than your prescription copay to just buy it OTC but they’ll fill it.

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                Telling me insurance is so shitty you might as well just buy it isn’t the gotcha you think it is. If you’d said they actually reasonably cover it maybe I’d be impressed.

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                  It’s like $10 for the copay and OTC Tylenol is basically free. I reiterate, you’re just kinda stupid.

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      i got a prescription for a higher dosed paracetamol which can not be bought without a prescription. not in the us though.