Adam,
We do almost exactly the same except if a patient says they cannot get to the office to get a script we ask them how are they going to get to the pharmacy to pick it up? (Only a few of the local pharmacies still deliver here). If they say someone will pick it up for them later in the day or tomorrow, we reply, "but if you are that ill to require a script, you really need to start the medicine immediately". 9/10 times, they make an appointment that day to be seen.

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "