Physician’s error puts woman in jail (more like cop error)

© Copyright 2011, AuburnPub.com ^ | Posted: Friday, March 25, 2011 3:05 am | The Citizen staff

[DariusBane]

I wasn’t apologizing and I object to your suggestion that I was. Anything but. I wasn't saying you were apologizing. Here is the sense I was using the word: "Apologetics (from Greek απολογία, "speaking in defense") is the discipline of defending a position (usually religious) through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers (c. 120-220) who defended their faith against critics and recommended their faith to outsiders were called apologists.[1] In modern times, apologists refers to authors, writers, editors or academic journals, and leaders known for defending the points in arguments, conflicts or positions that receive great popular scrutinies or are minority views." I saw you building a case to justify the actions of the police.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“How did the cop know...etc”

Yes, I wondered about that too. The story as told does not pass the smell test. A call to the doctor by the pharmacy would have cleared all of this in two minutes. It is not uncommon for a pharmacy to verify prescriptions if there are questions. Maybe this was a Wally-World pharmacy?

[metmom]

How did the cop know that she had a Rx with a mistake on it?

If she was waiting for it to be filled, then it was out of her hands.

Did the pharmacist blow her in? It sounds like the pharmacist was trying to protect her.

This story makes no sense. Something is fishy.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Thanks for responding to ratsreek in my absence. Our TEA Party is addressing municipal spending and we'll work to defund a lot of this madness caused by lawyers (you've really hit the core issue).

ratsreek, I have a problem with Union-LEO personnel stopping a man and then handcuffing him without arrest. Legally, handcuffing and patdown come AFTER arrest by the ULEO (Union Law Enforcement officer), unless somehow that whacky Patriot Act gives a more "level field of play" as I recently heard one ULEO state on TV.

[metmom]

The other thing is, the pharmacist can hand out LESS than the Rx is written for.

I’ve done that when trying new medication. The doctor will write it out for say a month supply and I’ll ask them to fill only a couple days worth to try it first and see if I react.

If I’m OK with it, then I’ll have them fill the rest.

The pharmacist should have thought this through first. FIRST and foremost, call the doctor to confirm the Rx. If they couldn’t have contacted him, filled the Rx for what was legal and contacted him later, especially if they knew that he was in the habit of making mistakes.

I’ve had pharmacists let me know if there’s ever any problem with the way the Rx was written.

THEN if they have grounds to suspect that the person forged the RxX, there would be cause to call the police.

I hope she sues them and wins big time.

Auburn is a real dump, typical of Upstate NY canal towns. NY ruined the economy and they’re all run down welfare towns now. Some beautiful old buildings from the canal days, but definitely on the lower end of the economic scale.

They do have quite the jail in Auburn, FWIW.

[Safetgiver]

You got it, M’aam. No damn cop is hanging in a pharmacy for this crap and unless she did it 10 times before,he wouldn’t know. The pharmacy had to have called (for what reason I can’t possibly imagine)and they wouldn’t have called unless she did it 10 times before.

[Vendome]

That’s great. I wake up this morning only to learn I am a fool.

I’m going back to bed.

[Fido969]

Who said you were fool?

Don’t tell me you really trust HIPPA?

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.”

[Diggity]

Cops in AwBarn are too busy chasing football players and keeping them out of trouble.

[Hot Tabasco]

My dermatologist recently suggested I purchase the over the counter anti-histamine Claritin. So I went to the drugstore and picked out one of the tags that required me to get the labled one from the pharmacist(there were all different kinds of Claritin). When I went to the pharmacist she required that I give her my drivers license. I asked her what for and she told me that that particular Claritin, while no longer requiring a prescription, did contain a controlled drug which required her to enter my name into the state police data base as purchasing that drug.

I told her no way and said all I wanted was a basic Claritin anti-histamine. She then told me which one to get off the counter........

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Wrong Auburn. This was Auburn NY

[Diggity]

Thanks.

[pandoraou812]

You are correct. I’ve done that also. The pharmacist should have thought it out fully before police involvement. I would still sue though.

[ratsreek]

Don’t even go there. I’m retired LE. I know exactly where the line between common sense safety measures and abuse lies. I agree LE has drifted more and more over that line, and I know why. The college athlete example the other poster gave was NOT a good example of that.

[Vendome]

lol

I’m in telecom and have to deal with HIPPA compliance. The whole thing is a joke and a ruse.

It’s the government creating vast records om it’s citizens.

example:
My records are suppose to digitzed and portable. They aren’t stored somewhere that enables my doctirs access those records. I have had 3 doctors pass away in the last 10 years and I have copies of records created each time so the next doctor or specialist can review my history

My current doctor said it take them a month to get my records. Fortunately I have four copies and just handed them to him

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Young man, for seven decades I haven’t had much faith in ULEOs exercising good judgement so don’t even go there. I fought for this country and it’s freedoms and really don’t need to be instructed how to behave or what to expect, thank you very much.

[kitchen]

All prescriptions are processed through a national database to check for conflicts with previous prescriptions by the same processors that run credit card transactions. It would not surprise me if dea or some other federal drones have established a diversion process that alerts them to 'scripts that fall outside the norm.

As an aside, doesn't it say something about our society that everyone seems to know everyone and their idiosyncrasies, except for the cops? They never seem to know or have a relationship with anyone in the community, as if they just dropped in from another planet.

[DariusBane]

Its not just law enforcement. It is the idea and the attitude that their is really no limit to what “legally constituted authority” can do to the individual. I think that the inherent dignity of men as creations of God is being stripped from the individual by the State. It is done under the auspices of my neighbors who will sacrifice every modicum of personal sovereignty for a trifle of safety or a smattering margin of control over others. We live in a society that can and will vote to start the fire over which they will be roasted. But after 50 years of industrialized public schools... After all public schools are a highly controlled and regulated environment. The bell tells you when to sleep, when to stand, when to sit, when to take a dump. A Pavlovian wonderland. So these kids grow up and demand a society that is equally highly regulated and controlled. These voters demand guns boots and jails and are damn willing to pay for it. these citizens are not confident in their own ability to regulate themselves, so they want others to do it for the, at the point of a gun if necessary.

[DariusBane]

Oh and I am curious as to why you believe that LE has drifted over the line. I would assume that if you had a 20 year career you must have witnessed the evolution of LE since around 1990 to present?

[Fido969]

Every time I have to deal with doctors and hospitals it's a huge hassle, they tell me it's “because of HIPPA” and “to protect my privacy.”

Meanwhile a couple of years ago I had a kidney stone and went to the hospital where they gave me an abdominal ultrasound.

Ever since then - I've been getting copies of “Expectant Mother” magazine.

Privacy, my @ss.