I have sent a prescription while the patient is in the room, and walked out to the front desk to find the pharmacy on the phone with my staff with a question about that same prescription.
However I find that it is often the same pharmacies that say "we never got the prescription". I once had a pharmacy tell a patient that, and when I called them the employee that picked up the phone happened to be a patient. She looked and told me that the script had actually already been filled and was waiting to be picked up.....


Theo A. Stephens, MD
Internal Medicine,
Baltimore, MD