On 01/15/98 12:06:25, "Mike Wells" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Perfectly possible. The problem then is that the patient MUST go to
> that specific pharmacy. In 99% of cases that is not a problem of
> course; but there will always be the patient who for some reason
> after leaving the surgery decides to go some other pharmacist, and
> who then strops up because he (it would usually be he, women are far
> too sensible) cannot do so. In theory the newly selected pharmacist
> could, of course, collect the script from the one to hwom it had been
> sent in the first place. But then the patient would probably have
> forgotten who that was.
The patient won't have to remember who the original intended recipient
was, the card or the e-script will do that :-)
In the same way, going to a different chemist shouldn't be a problem,
it's only a question of routing ;-)
> I am not being facetious; I am trying to pont out that as in all of
> these things, the devil is in the detail.
Carry on, this is getting more fun :-)
Ahmad
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