This particular article states that the physician never saw the patient. My guess is that in other situations the rx was filled by a pharmacy then brought in by the family. A hospital can deny this. It sounds as if the family is expecting the rx to act as an order in the hospital.
gas_dr wrote:
“This particular article states that the physician never saw the patient. My guess is that in other situations the rx was filled by a pharmacy then brought in by the family. A hospital can deny this. It sounds as if the family is expecting the rx to act as an order in the hospital.”
OK, so to get the hospital to give the rx to the patient, the dr who wrote the rx has to have hospital privileges.