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"Red Tape and Morons"

So I've lost my inhaler, and I need it to be able to breath should I get an asthma attack.

I phone my doctor's surgery and explain the situation. I ask if I can please come down after work and pick up a prescription for one so I can get it from the chemist tonight.

"We can't do that over the phone"
"I understand that, but this is an emergency. I can't breath without one"
"You need to come in"
"Ok, so I can come in tonight and pick up the prescription?"
"No, the doctor will need to sign it and they finish tonight at 5pm"
"But I can't breathe without one. I will die. What do I do?"
"..I don't know"
"I have to have an inhaler, tonight. Otherwise I cannot breathe. I'm not asking for morphine or heroin, I'm telling you that I am in serious trouble without an inhaler and I don't have one"
"Well there's nothing we can do"
"What is your name please?"
"...why?"
"Because without an inhaler, I can die if I have asthma attack. It will be your fault that I do not have an inhaler and you will be held responsible. I'm asking you what do I do to get one, tonight?"
"...goodbye"

And she hangs up.
She f###ing hangs up on me.
So I phone back and complain, they hang up again.

This country disgusts me.

I was in the Doc's waiting room at my Uni, when this bloke came in and said that he needed to see a doctor because he didn't have any of his pills left. The receptionist says that he can't until the Monday (it was a Friday), so he has to go without. Then the receptionist, who had seconds earlier taken away his chances of seeing the doctor, asks the fella what he's gonna do! Shouldn't the bloke be asking her? Anyway, he decides that he'll wait until the next week before he continues his course. It seems that the receptionists in these places think it's beyond themselves to have any form of compassion.

Woah, that's pretty bad goaty.

Get the b!tch sacked.

Bagger Blair

I would have got her sacked... although that would have done herself and the world a favour.

I can't believe she did that.
I am pretty severe Astma which thankfully is starting to go away but I always have at least one inhaler near by and make sure that I take an extra one to uni. I'm pretty sure these places aren't allowed to hang up on you for reasons like this and I would ask to speak to the practice manager or someone with a bit of common sense enough to realise that you being ill enough to die dosn't mean they should hang up.

Unfortunatly it comes back to exams.

Having exams gets you job.

Common sense says you sit exams so you can get job.

I have common sense. I just have no intention of getting a job that requires me having to do the things I've learnt.

Too right ! All the qualifications in the world don't give you that one necessary ingredient in life - Common Sense - it's so important but how can you judge it ?

This is what I mean about everyone being judged by exams. Who knows what this woman needed to get her job, but it sure as hell wasn't good enough.

I can't say much more, other than agree how some utter, utter morons manage to get jobs so important, people who unable to think rationally when it really counts. It scares me on how we're judged.

That's it - get it off your chest...

At least your sorted - get a double prescription so you can have a spare somewhere !

Or go and shove the spare one up the cows left nostril !!

A mate is dropping his off tonight after work, so that's the immediate "ohmygodidonthaveone" feeling taken care of.
I'm still...I dont know, how can you hang up on someone that's saying "I can't breathe without this, please can you help me out here a bit?"

Idiot cow-person.
I hope she has really ugly children and her man leaves her for a younger model, forcing her to feel insecure and dressing 7yrs younger than she should in an attempt to prove to herself that she still has "it".

Cow.

What about the chemist that you use ? alot of them keep records of patients medication and they can issue things without prescriptions under exceptional circumstance.