On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:07:43 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 06/11/2011 5:30 PM, Steve Pope wrote:
> >
> >> There are no pharmacies like that in hospitals around here. There are
> >> usually 24 hour pharmacies close to the hospital where you can get a
> >> prescription filled but the pharmacies in the hospital are for admitted
> >> patients only.
> >
> > Well, a patient being discharged had been admitted.
> >
> > At my local Kaiser hospital, I think there is no possible path for a
> > patient being discharged from the ER or OR to exit other than by going
> > past the discharge pharmacy, and then through a one-way door to the
> > "discharge parking area" which is the only place persons with
> > vehicles are allowed to meet/pick up patients.
> >
> > Some of this is for security reasons, since the discharge pharmacy
> > is by definition open 24 hours and well-stocked with painkillers.
>
>
> Sorry, but is this a matter of for profit health care? Are they
> directing you past their own pharmacy so that they can sell you drugs on
> the way out? Your system is different from ours.
>
No. It's not "not for profit" but it's not part of the government
system either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Permanente
It's not for all, people leave for various reasons. My DD left
because her husband has pain they managed with drugs rather than
getting to the root of it. He found a Dr that literally wrote the
book on one of his problems, but it wasn't a panacea and he still
lives with pain.

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