[Magdalen] Prescription shift

[ME Michaud]

Took a cruise ship up the Maine coast to Canada & back last Fall.

The upstanding young men who handle luggage at the Port of Boston went
through my suitcase and removed my coumadin. Didn't realize it until I was
in Canada.

Turns out that in Canada you have to get a Canadian physician to write
scrips. No Canadian pharmacy will accept a scrip written in the USA. Who
knew?

Worked out because the ship's sick bay stocked this medication. Expensive,
though (those people who say it's cheap to live on a cruise ship have no
clue about what a visit to the ship's physician costs ... yikes!). That
place was hopping! We had at least two medical evacuations along the way.
-M

On Friday, June 9, 2017, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
wrote:
>
> With the advent of the large national pharmacy chains and
> computerization of medications, the filling of such out-of-state
> prescriptions has become possible and relatively easy.
>
> Not so very long ago, though, only prescriptions from providers
> who had a valid license in the state where the  pharmacy  actually
> filling the prescription was located, would be  honored.
>
> It wouldn't surprise me that there are still states requiring the  latter
> to be found.
>
>