Let's Keep The Short-Night Stupidity Series Going One More Day.....

Alternate Post Title: Sign Number 785,251,123,985,769 Of The Imminent Collapse Of The American Health Care System.

Alternate Alternate Post Title: Sometimes The Customer Is Not The Idiot, Part 4.

"Ms. Smith, it says on your new customer form that you're allergic to Lortab. Is that correct?"

"Yes"

"So what exactly did the Lortab do to you when you took it?"

Ho hum. I do this a couple times a day. I got ready to hear all about how it made her tummy hurt. Snore. The doctor who wrote the prescription for Vicodin had probably heard all this already. Sigh.

Lortab and Vicodin, you see, are two different brands of the same product. Like Motrin and Advil are both ibuprofen.

"Well, it made me really itchy, and I got these splotches..."

Holy crap! A real allergy that made its way to my level! This is like a blue moon. It happens just often enough to remind you that it can.

Stupid customer obviously didn't bother to let her doctor know.....because there’s no way a doctor would write a prescription for Vicodin if she had told him this. Because Vicodin and Lortab are the same thing.

“Well, this prescription is for a different brand of Lortab…..”

"WHAT!!!!????? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!"

Turns out she had let her doctor know. And she had asked her nurse once she started itching in the hospital if they were giving her Lortab. More than once she had asked if they were giving her Lortab. Because Lortab made her itch. The way she was itching now.

Wow she was mad. Can't blame her really.

Hope to hell I don't have to testify at someone's malpractice trial.