So, I hurt my neck last week. Then, this weekend I hurt my back. The Mrs. finally broke my will and I went to the doctor yesterday. Turns out, I really did injure something pretty good and it didn’t take the Nurse Practitioner 30 seconds to figure that out. What my problem was was that no medicine was helping ease the pain. So she prescribed me a muscle relaxer and 600mg Motrin horse pills.
Now, my Dr’s office is high tech. There are no more folders of charts – instead the whole office uses laptops and tablet PCs. The nurse wrote up my prescription, asked who I used for a pharmacy, and with the click of a pen submitted the request to my local Walgreens! No paper. No waiting. Nothing!
Of course when I showed up an hour later Walgreens had no record of any such transaction at that store nor any others in the area which was only resolved after calling the after hours physician two times and wasn’t able to pick it up until 9:30 PM, but hey! The technology was cool!
By the way. Muscle relaxers? Woke up at 7:45 this morning with both my legs hanging off the bed from the 5:45 attempt to get up.