I worked for Walgreens for a few years. Now I work for a large hospital.
We have an outpatient pharmacy that does 300-400 prescriptions a day.
Ninety-nine percent of these are from our clinics, our ER, or discharge
orders. We have an in-house electronic transmittal system (Epicweb) for
the clinics, so these prescriptions are usually not signed. I am out of
touch with the current format of prescriptions.

Recently I saw my physician (a completely different medical group) and
he gave me a prescription for TMC ointment. Their office had recently
converted to electronic record keeping, and I was rather stunned to see
the prescription: an 8.5 x 11 printout that looked more like a page from
my medical record than a prescription. Also, it was unsigned, and
without even a place for a signature.

At the supermarket pharmacy I go to, the pharmacist did not even bat an
eye at this unconventional looking prescription. What passes for a
prescription these days? The format of the prescription I received set
my suspicious mind reeling: I suppose that people familiar with our
procedures have always been able to exploit our weaknesses, but the
computer printout I received as a prescription made me think that
mischief is one step easier.

Comments?
Pete