with a weak person in the car. No shit, that "here's a piece of paper, good luck with that!" crap has got to go. They have pharmacies in the hospital, we know this, why they can't just give you a couple day's supply AND a piece of paper I'll never understand. One reason I love my PCP is that his office will call in a scrip to my closest pharmacy so I can get it from the drive through on my way home, that's wunnerful. Huh, have you tried seeing if they'll call it in for you? It's not like it's any skin off their asses. 1. For inpatients who are being discharged, they don't get Rxs--I've never given a prescription to an inpt to take home or had an MD ask me to give an Rx to a pt in 25 years of nursing. You could ask the MD to phone it in--good luck with that. 2. For outpts going home (same day surgery), we do sometimes phone them in, BUT many pharms are now reluctant to take narc Rxs over the phone due to fraud. So, now we don't do it as often. What is needed is connection between pharms and MD offices/hospitals either electronically or at least telephonically. (forget the fax machine--IME, most pharms don't check them regularly). I'm not a big fan of using the hospital pharm for filling Rxs--I'm not sure, but there may be a legal issue there (hospital pharms are designed and licensed