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Originally Posted by rcook715
 I was discharged from Villages Regional Hospital on Thursday evening with a prescription for Morphine Liquid Solution 10mg/5ml #200 to use through the feeding port installed in my stomach.
Both Walgreens and Publix pharmacies stated they don't carry the medication. One pharmacist stated that I need to get it from the hospital. The hospital pharmacy says that since I have been discharged from the hospital they can’t fill it.
I’m in a real quandary- pain from the throat radiation is intense and, relief is no where in sight
Why would a physician prescribe a non-available medication?
Thanks
James Randall Cook |
Seems like an unusual concentration. The most commonly prescribed liquid morphine is a concentrate---20 mg/ml. I would suggest calling the pharmacy and asking which concentrations of liquid morphine that they DO carry, and getting the hospital physician to change the RX. Be prepared for a run around, even to just locate the hospitalist. While whatever hospitalist is working is obligated to cover another hospitalist's in-patients, they are not required to replace a schedule 2 narcotic prescription for a discharged patient, so be nice to him/her. Do you have a primary care doctor here locally? If so, that would be another route to try. GOOD LUCK!!, your situation sucks especially with the weekend coming.
PS The physician really has no idea what local pharmacies do and do not stock. But I think the pharmacy could have been more helpful. I find it hard to believe that they do not stock ANY liquid morphine, especially given the age of the community, so they could have suggested a concentration that they do have.