Question About Hospitals

• dragg

  17 May 06, 17:49

  do doctors dispense medication based on bed numbers?
  
  anyone working in any hospital?
  
  
• photo_seeker

  18 May 06, 00:00

  What do you mean? I don't really get you.
  
  But based on experiences from many hospitalisation, the medication is only dispensed by your doctor on the day you're to discharge. It's dispense to your name and no way your bed number cause a patient might change ward and bed during his/her stay.
• snobbish

  18 May 06, 00:05

  Originally posted by photo_seeker:

  What do you mean? I don't really get you.
  
  But based on experiences from many hospitalisation, the medication is only dispensed by your doctor on the day you're to discharge. It's dispense to your name and no way your bed number cause a patient might change ward and bed during his/her stay.

  Poor Guy
• depressed_80

  18 May 06, 00:09

  why leh? they dispensed da wrong meds to u? no way wat..usually the doctor will write the prescription, then the pharmacist will be the one dispensing to the patient..i'm working in hospital..
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 May 06, 07:43

  Originally posted by depressed_80:

  why leh? they dispensed da wrong meds to u? no way wat..usually the doctor will write the prescription, then the pharmacist will be the one dispensing to the patient..i'm working in hospital..

  I thought hospital pharmacist only dispense for outpatient? Not too sure, I have never pharmacists dispensing, but the nurses only, according to what the doctors have written.
• photo_seeker

  18 May 06, 13:23

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  I thought hospital pharmacist only dispense for outpatient? Not too sure, I have never pharmacists dispensing, but the nurses only, according to what the doctors have written.

  The doctor will give the orders to the pharmacist and they will be the ones sending the medication to you, just after the doctor have signed the discharge form. On Sundays/Public Holidays, the nurses do the pharmacist job as pharmacy is closed on Sunday/ Public Holidays. Only those satalite stations are opened for discharge medications.
• dragg

  18 May 06, 21:29

  lets say a man is hospitalised.
  
  how do the hospital dispense medication to each individual? by bed numbers?
  
  
• photo_seeker

  18 May 06, 22:24

  Originally posted by dragg:

  lets say a man is hospitalised.
  
  how do the hospital dispense medication to each individual? by bed numbers?
  
  

  If still inside the hospital, they will go by the patient's name and the ward & bed number.
• dragg

  18 May 06, 22:28

  i was reading the fiction 'the 5th horseman' by james patterson and came across the above situation. the story was about someone killing patients in hospitals.
  
  
• cornyfish2000

  18 May 06, 22:32

  Originally posted by photo_seeker:

  If still inside the hospital, they will go by the patient's name and the ward & bed number.

  Are you a pharmacist? You sound like one...
• cornyfish2000

  18 May 06, 22:33

  Originally posted by dragg:

  i was reading the fiction 'the 5th horseman' by james patterson and came across the above situation. the story was about someone killing patients in hospitals.
  
  

  You mean 'The 5th Houseman'?
• dragg

  18 May 06, 22:34

  Originally posted by cornyfish2000:

  You mean 'The 5th Houseman'?

  no, horseman.
  
  it is a no 1 international bestseller.
  
  a very good read.
  
  
• photo_seeker

  19 May 06, 01:03

  Originally posted by cornyfish2000:

  Are you a pharmacist? You sound like one...

  I'm not a pharmacist. These are my experiences in the hospital.