I’m going to call yesterday Perco-hell. We must have done five or six percocet rx’s within a 2-hour period. Two of them came at almost the same time.
One of them didn’t have a DEA number (and we didn’t even have it on file) so I had to call the doctor’s office. The “nurse” that answered the phone told me she wasn’t authorized to give that information out, but to go ahead and fill the script because it was valid. (What school did she go to where they think that’s acceptable?)
The other one had the date 5/22 without a year. It was from the hospital, where the patient had given birth. So, we asked to speak to the ob/gyn who had seen her (since we couldn’t read the doctor’s name, of course). He said she had been discharged on 5/22/07, but he didn’t remember writing a script for percocet. “But I’ll ok it anyway. Here’s my DEA number…”
After those and a few other perco scripts, our supply for the long holiday weekend was brought perilously low. I hope there aren’t a lot of car accidents.
