Great Stories Guys,
It just continues to baffle me as to how and why you providers are the one's who will get in trouble for being "candymen" for being an unwilling participant in these people's scams; yet nobody gives us what we really need. An interconnected Rx system just for controlled Rx's let's say, so any and all providers can know who is getting what from who. And if all the pharmacies data was in such a system it might also help providers from accidentally hurting someone because the patient didn't tell you about some med change from another doc. Now you could always know and check.
We have a patient right now who is in the middle of some "incident" where as her side of the story goes, someone is using all of her info to pretend they are her, and then go getting and filling controlled Rx's all over the places. Like you folks, hours all around from here in other cities! She just est'ed here and so do we believe her side of this story to begin with, or should we discharge her? You're never sure if someone is "seeking" or being straight up in these situations and no matter what you do, your kind of screwed. Just drives me nuts. There really needs to be an accessible list on scammers and abusers that pharmacies and docs can share. Good Luck to all and to all a good nite.
