Things that give you the sh1ts

[fisho mcspaz]

The National Pharmacies at Morphett Vale. I've lost prescription repeats in the past and as long as I go to the same chemist I got the first script filled from, they'll have it on record and be able to give me the medicine if I show them photo ID. Today I couldn't find my script anywhere so I went to the chemist but the assistant said they couldn't dispense medicine without the script - regardless of what their records were - and then asked me if I needed help remembering what the name of it was or how to use it? I think she thought I was a drug addict. I just didn't feel like brushing my hair today, that's all. All the doctors were booked so I had to get a locum in to write me a new script.

[Squawk]

Beetroot. What a useless vegetable. It's purple, it stains, and it doesn't go with ice cream.

Which gives me an idea for a new thread.....

[White Line Fever]

Hammys!

I'm a victim of my first one!

[JAS]

Beetroot. What a useless vegetable. It's purple, it stains, and it doesn't go with ice cream.

Which gives me an idea for a new thread.....

Then you should try it AS ice cream

http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/ch ... e_p_1.html

I love beetroot...pickled, chutneyed, boiled, hot, cold...ok not tried the ice cream thing but I might

Regards
JAS

[norm11]

All the panter on the pdca site

[Pseudo]

... I went to the chemist but the assistant said they couldn't dispense medicine without the script - regardless of what their records were - and then asked me if I needed help remembering what the name of it was or how to use it? I think she thought I was a drug addict.

Some years ago one of my mates got bit by a redback. When the pain became too much he fronted at one of those turn-up-and-take-a-number doctors surgeries. The doc who attended to him gave him a shot of adrenaline and told him to go home. IOW, the doc simply assumed he was a junkie.

Much later, and after considerably more pain, he fronted at FMC where some antivenene was administered.

[Choccies]

Listening to Australian musicians singing songs in an American accent..... just can't understand that....

[Psyber]

The National Pharmacies at Morphett Vale. I've lost prescription repeats in the past and as long as I go to the same chemist I got the first script filled from, they'll have it on record and be able to give me the medicine if I show them photo ID. Today I couldn't find my script anywhere so I went to the chemist but the assistant said they couldn't dispense medicine without the script - regardless of what their records were - and then asked me if I needed help remembering what the name of it was or how to use it? I think she thought I was a drug addict. I just didn't feel like brushing my hair today, that's all. All the doctors were booked so I had to get a locum in to write me a new script.

I don't have the actual legislation to hand, but, from memory, it is technically correct that they should not supply the medication without a prescription if the medication is approved for prescription only.
Also, they don't get paid for dispensing by Medicare if they can't produce the processed prescription. It works rather like the paper credit card system.
Most Pharmacists will however take the risk with their regulars they know, and there are provisions to allow emergency supply in some circumstances.
Some may have a system of scanning the prescription on first sight and thus have electronic proof of it if you lose the paper.

Some like to "keep your prescription for you" to prevent this problem, and of course it makes sure they get your business.
But, while most Pharmacists are honest, a few less scrupulous ones will regularly "lose" prescriptions they are holding and require you to get a new one.
Then they get to claim from Medicare for filling the "lost" repeats without even supplying the medication.
I ran into this pattern more in Melbourne than Adelaide - for example, patients being told their prescription was finished when they should still have 2 repeats.

[Psyber]

Listening to Australian musicians singing songs in an American accent..... just can't understand that....

I don't listen to them, and if anyone asks as I leave I tell them why.

[A Mum]

The fact that my local supermarket does not sell anything in the frozen dessert range that is apricot based !!
They have 5000 varieties of apple things, apple pie, apple crumble, apple this, apple that.
But NOT one thing apricot

All I want it a nice hot apricot pie on a cold winters night - is that too much to ask

[Psyber]

The fact that my local supermarket does not sell anything in the frozen dessert range that is apricot based !!
They have 5000 varieties of apple things, apple pie, apple crumble, apple this, apple that.
But NOT one thing apricot

All I want it a nice hot apricot pie on a cold winters night - is that too much to ask

I think apples are cheaper and therefore those products offer a higher profit margin.
It will get worse if they do get the approval to import Chinese apples and apple products they are pushing for - and that could be the end of Australian apple products too.

[Footy Chick]

Having the "It's a Knockout" theme in my head and what's worse - not knowing how it got there in the first place

[JK]

Having the "It's a Knockout" theme in my head and what's worse - not knowing how it got there in the first place

Could be worse, you could have Fiona McDonalds laugh in your head, **** she used to annoy me.

[Media Park]

My new glasses.

[Pseudo]

Having the "It's a Knockout" theme in my head and what's worse - not knowing how it got there in the first place

Now I have the Knockout theme song in my head - and I know full bl00dy well how it got there

[Footy Chick]

Can you feel the expectation and the wild jubilation?

[Booney]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 806973723#


Watch this,it's a Knockout.

[Media Park]

My now former employer telling me my group certificate "isn't ready," when I know he's given it to all other staff.

[Brucetiki]

http://www.news.com.au/national/two-cou ... 5894802548

This is quite sick and you've really got to question the fitness of these parents

[Brucetiki]

Having the "It's a Knockout" theme in my head and what's worse - not knowing how it got there in the first place

Could be worse, you could have Fiona McDonalds laugh in your head, **** she used to annoy me.

Thanks you two - now I have both It's a Knockout and Fiona McDonald's laugh in my head at the same time.

Could be worse, could have Jackie's laugh in my head as well!