I'm an intern in NY. I'm almost out of my allergy and migraine meds, and I don't have an internist here yet. Can I just call in prescriptions for these meds myself? Even though I'm not licensed? I've never called in a prescription. What information does the pharmacy ask you to provide? Just your name, or do you need some type of ID number as well?
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There are numerous threads which discuss this. Here is one: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=253854
Since your allergy and migraine meds are not controlled substances you can write for them without a DEA #.
Since your allergy and migraine meds are not controlled substances you can write for them without a DEA #.
Can't call in Rx's for yourself - ethical reasons aside, you're not licensed yet.
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I just clicked on that thread and scrolled a little, boy do I miss sdn1977.
Or, you could do what I did: skip the whole issue, call your old doctor, and have him phone in the Rx's to whatever pharmacy you like.
My entire intern year, I never wrote a prescription for anyone who wasn't a legitimate patient of one of my attendings. I highly recommend doing the same.
Never understood the fascination you Gas guys had for her. Maybe you just didn't read her posts in the other forums.
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well shucks I always enjoyed reading her posts in the anesthesia forums and about prescribing laws and whatnot. Didn't realize she had a bum rap elsewhere.
Search her last dozen posts or so. I believe it was a conflict in this very forum that ultimately drove her away.
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Vaguely rings a bell, seems like she duked it out w/someone else.
Who in their right mind argues with Lee?
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nobody, Lee is the man.
1) not that we know of. He has his own site http://www.hostingphpbb.com/forum/index.php?mforum=kinetic which he doesn't work on much anymore
2) switched from medicine to general surgery
