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      Exactly, even just adding a question mark to the end would have made that clearer

      Or better yet, a generic flyer that they drop into the relevant bags with a proper explanation

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        a generic flyer that they drop into the relevant bags with a proper explanation

        But you’d need to pay someone to make that flier.

        Telling the assistant to add advertising in sharpie is free.

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      “NAZI! NAZI!”

      … oh, I was just asking if you knew about the history of nazism in Germany.

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    Relatable, my mom got a cancer diagnosis from an automated message through her healthcare portal. Their offices were closed and she wasn’t able to ask any questions about it until the next day. She just knew she had some type of breast cancer, but nothing else, for that whole time. Only other time I’ve seen her cry that hard is when her dad died.

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      There’s a lot of features I like about mychart and this is not one of them. I’ve personally seen enough lab values that the little red arrow next to a non-fasting glucose of 136 means nothing to me but I imagine it’s much more stressful for people who don’t know what any of those words mean. I also don’t like that patients can read what I wrote about their temper tantrums that may have contributed to their legal hold right when they get their phone as they’re walking off the unit. I feel like you should have to take some time making a medical records request to really think about whether or not you wanna hang around until my shift is over and shank me in the parking lot.

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        I get where you’re coming from but as a lab tech my biggest grip with MyChart is how they post lab results. I can stand the one at time value layout. Like Jesus Christ just give me the results in report form. I want to see all of them at once so I can look at the whole picture.

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      I had a heart test several years ago For a week I got messages that said it was very important that I call to discuss an issue they found. Every time I called they told me the person I needed wasn’t there and no one else could give me the results. Turned out to be a super common valve issue.

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      Wtf, that’s literally illegal over here.

      Not only could someone be listening to the phone call (like an abusive partner) and not only could someone else have picked up entirely (which the person/machine calling cannot verify) but people are significantly more likely to commit suicide upon hearing a (seemingly) terrible diagnosis without further information via phone than in person from their doctor.

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        It was an online instant message, not a phone message. That would be illegal where I live, too.

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    Last time I used CVS’ pharmacy, it was for a 6 month prescription of anti-depressants. (A family member was suicidal at the time.) When I got home and opened the bag, it contained a 1-month supply of meds, and a note that that’s all the insurance would cover. It was a cheap prescription, only $10-30 out of pocket for the correct amount. They didn’t even ask me what I wanted to do. I never used their pharmacy again.

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      Rite aid closed. Cvs helpfully said they’d automatically transfer the scripts. Two months without two separate prescriptions because they couldn’t unfuck themselves for long enough to do anything right despite constant calls.

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    See up there near the top where it says "Take 1 capsule by mouth every

    morning"?

    I was dog sitting for a buddy of mine once, and ended up giving the dog a triple dose of its medication partially because of what I’d call less than ideal label design and instructions.

    My buddy left instructions to give the dog 300 mg of its meds. So, I found the bottle with the correct name of the medication, it said 100 mg pills, so I gave the dog three pills.

    The problem is, the label actually said something like "This medication is not to be given with

    100 mg pills".

    Because the bottle was super skinny, it meant that the top line wasn’t even fully visible without turning the bottle to read it, plus there was so much space between the top line and the bottom one that they otherwise looked unrelated. Strangely, the actual dose of 300 mg was not like in the picture above, it was in a tiny non-bold font and much less conspicuous than the larger bolder font used for the directions so I didn’t even notice it until I went back later and searched for it.

    Granted, it didn’t help that I was not aware that this dog had 2 different prescriptions for two different strengths, which would have hopefully prompted more scrutiny on my part if I’d known because I probably wouldn’t have just assumed the first bottle I grabbed with the correct name on it was the right one to give her.

    The good news is, the vet said that it wasn’t anything medically significant and that the dog would probably just be a little sleepier than normal for the next several hours. And she was, but otherwise perfectly okay.