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- Jan 4, 2015
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For all those moans and complaints not serious enough for Conquering Challenges, because I'd cringe to see "I got a bad grade!" next to "How to deal with my diagnosis?".
Like so:
Pretty pissed at my vet. And usually I'm really happy with their service and how they handle my pets. But there is crap that doesn't need to go down like this right here.
They told me I could get my bulldog's prescriptions via e-mail, and so I requested one. Promptly got one, too. Great, I think. I look, and it lacks a stamp and signature, so I ask them if that's valid at all. No reply, so I print it and take it to the pharmacy. I mean, a chain of vet clinics with a hundred vets employed, gotta know what they're doing, right?
Wrong.
Invalid.
So I call them on the spot and ask them to fax a signed and stamped prescription to the pharmacy as my Marie NEEDS HER MEDS. A minute later, the vet's office calls back, their fax doesn't work. Wonderful. Their fault, my problem? Weird... I never quite got to wrap my head around this concept of somebody else's error becoming another person's problem when they had done nothing to contribute to it. It's like someone failing not to drink to excess, and the owner of the other car has to repair it out their own pocket. To me, it is not understandable.
So I ask her to email me a signed version. Can't, she says, because you cannot sign and stamp PDFs on the computer. YEAH WELL, PRINT, SIGN, AND SCAN IT!? And YES you can stamp things digitally, make a damned transparent PNG of your stamp and copypaste it onto the prescription in Photoshop! Oh, but she dunno how to scan stuff. But I'm welcome to drop by. That's a freaking 90 minute trip, and in pouring rain and thunder. Oh, and I work and all that, you know, other things to do than waste hours fixing other peoples' errors THEY could fix in 5 minutes flat.
They're vets. They're supposed to help me maintain the health of my pet, as I pay them to. See, now my Marie is sick because she's off her steroids. Because people in 2015 don't know how to use a scanner in their own office. That's like me not knowing how to use a register, except, what do you know - I DO!
Why the hell would they offer to email prescriptions anyway, when this is how it goes down??? See, this is why people illegally grow their own medicinal marijuana. Because doctors can't be trusted to get things done.
Like so:
Pretty pissed at my vet. And usually I'm really happy with their service and how they handle my pets. But there is crap that doesn't need to go down like this right here.
They told me I could get my bulldog's prescriptions via e-mail, and so I requested one. Promptly got one, too. Great, I think. I look, and it lacks a stamp and signature, so I ask them if that's valid at all. No reply, so I print it and take it to the pharmacy. I mean, a chain of vet clinics with a hundred vets employed, gotta know what they're doing, right?
Wrong.
Invalid.
So I call them on the spot and ask them to fax a signed and stamped prescription to the pharmacy as my Marie NEEDS HER MEDS. A minute later, the vet's office calls back, their fax doesn't work. Wonderful. Their fault, my problem? Weird... I never quite got to wrap my head around this concept of somebody else's error becoming another person's problem when they had done nothing to contribute to it. It's like someone failing not to drink to excess, and the owner of the other car has to repair it out their own pocket. To me, it is not understandable.
So I ask her to email me a signed version. Can't, she says, because you cannot sign and stamp PDFs on the computer. YEAH WELL, PRINT, SIGN, AND SCAN IT!? And YES you can stamp things digitally, make a damned transparent PNG of your stamp and copypaste it onto the prescription in Photoshop! Oh, but she dunno how to scan stuff. But I'm welcome to drop by. That's a freaking 90 minute trip, and in pouring rain and thunder. Oh, and I work and all that, you know, other things to do than waste hours fixing other peoples' errors THEY could fix in 5 minutes flat.
They're vets. They're supposed to help me maintain the health of my pet, as I pay them to. See, now my Marie is sick because she's off her steroids. Because people in 2015 don't know how to use a scanner in their own office. That's like me not knowing how to use a register, except, what do you know - I DO!
Why the hell would they offer to email prescriptions anyway, when this is how it goes down??? See, this is why people illegally grow their own medicinal marijuana. Because doctors can't be trusted to get things done.