u/buzzlauryear

I’m an RN at a hospital and a recently discharged patient called the floor saying their pharmacy doesn’t have Bentyl script in oral syrup form. I called the pharmacy and spoke with the pharmacist, asked her to change the script to a capsule if they are out of the oral syrup. This pharmacist adamantly refused and told me the doctor has to resend the correct script.

I understand that this is probably technically the law but the amount of time this took to get ahold of the attending physician to resend the script as a capsule was just silly. We (everyone in healthcare) waste so much time/energy on things like this.

No hate toward the pharmacist, I just thought it was funny because it’s for Bentyl…. C’mon man 😆

What are your thoughts on this??