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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a doc. I have fielded these calls when on-call all the time. 10am is no big deal, but 10pm is unpleasant, as noted above. 1. It is a needed medication 2. It isn't a substance prone to abuse 3. I don't want you to pay extra either, especially at a holiday season Do this: Start by saying you're sorry to trouble them, but your trip planning went awry and you find yourself without extra Synthroid pills, and you use a mail pharmacy. Might they write a script to cover you for the week (or whatever) so you can get this taken care of well before you leave? Synthroid is usually pretty cheap, but it's one of the few meds where we know avoiding generic matters for quality, so unless you've been on generic, don't switch. People like you who worry about whether their issue is worth bothering someone on call are just the sweetest. I mean that. You don't know what goes on unless you are fielding the calls, and this is no big deal. My favorite (for a given definition!) was fielding a call at 2:30 in the morning from a mom who wanted me to write a school excuse for a kid I've never seen, and she wanted me to drive it over when I got off shift at 7am. (No, I'm serious. The school did not have a working fax, but they had an online PDF form for a doctor's excuse.) I had to work at clinic the next day, too. When I gently asked why she did not wait until the office opened up, she said she would be asleep by then, "and if I have to be up at 2 in the morning, I figured you should be, too." Oh, sweetheart. DOn't worry. Just call the person on-call during the day. ;)[/quote]
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