David:
Good to hear from my esteemed colleague in Fairbanks. When I was a resident I had a standard whereby I did not refill pharmacy requests. Rather, I preferred to give enough refills until the next visit, or call personally in the case of an early refill. If the pharmacy was sending a request, the patient was not taking the pills as indicated or was overdue for an appointment. Since being in practice, I have gotten used to refilling faxed pharm refill requests, but thinking about going back the other way. Some patients have no clue what they are on, and say "oh, the pharmacy will send it". Your post intrigues me. Do you think it would be doable to completely work with just the patient on this? I have been to some offices where a sign says to bring all pill bottles to every visit and that pills will not be refilled after hours or over the phone.
BTW, we should consider an AK AC get together this summer.
