Thread: Fish Friday

Janet Bostwick <[email protected]> wrote:

>It is pretty difficult around here to get an actual paper prescription
>in your hand.

That's odd; I've had two paper prescriptions handed to me
in the past couple years, one of which was for a controlled
substance.

Any doctor can write out a prescription on paper, even those
who standardly enter it into a computer.

>The nurses/medicos fax the prescription to the
>pharmacy, if you need a refill, the pharmacy faxes the doctor or nurse
>and receives a fax back. Basically you pick a pharmacy before you
>have a prescription. The doctor's office wants to have that info in
>your file ahead of time.

I have never encountered this. The paper prescriptions now have
anti-forgery features; if it's a controlled substance, the
pharmacy must exchange faxes with the prescribing doctor before
filling it (and obtain an I.D. from the person picking it up).

(The most common use of a paper prescription these days is if, at the
time of the medical appointment, there is still uncertainty the
patient will get it filled. e.g. "If you don't get better
in three days, take these meds.")

Steve

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:18:02 -0600, Janet Bostwick wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:20:58 -0500, Sqwertz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:42:49 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> I waffled back & forth between spaghetti or fish. I settled on fish. Pan
>>> fried white fish fillets, coated with Zatarain's Fish Fri mix.
>>
>>What kind of "white fish".
>>
>>Other than smoked whitefish, I have seen anything labeled "White
>>Fish". Nor have I heard of anybody fishing for "white fish".
>>Must be a regional thing.
>
> I checked with my ex on this one. There are two types (my words) of
> whitefish. Mountain and Lake or Great Lakes. Basically, they have
> white flesh. They are way yummy.
> I got the whole lecture from him about where they were introduced to
> waters and where natural, etc. I have had whitefish from Idaho
> mountain streams, Glacier Lake and Lake Michigan. Yum, yum.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_whitefish and also
>
> http://inlandseafood.com/upload/Buyi...-WHITEFISH.pdf
> Janet US

I knew there was an actual whitefish up north (like Canada), but I
didn't realize there was anything considered "whitefish" in the U.S.
I just thought most people considered any white fish, whitefish (as
Jill did). I just have never seen "Whitefish" in any market except
smoked.

Sorry I made you ask you ex ;-)

-sw

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:27:53 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:

> I have never encountered this. The paper prescriptions now have
> anti-forgery features; if it's a controlled substance, the
> pharmacy must exchange faxes with the prescribing doctor before
> filling it (and obtain an I.D. from the person picking it up).

Here in TX the really controlled substances (Demerol, Percocet,
Penobarbitol) have 3-part forge-resistant forms. Hydrocodone up to
10mg (Norco) and the like are just simple paper prescriptions.

(This thread sure veered off quick)

-sw

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:01:19 -0500, Sqwertz <[email protected]>
wrote:
snip
>I just thought most people considered any white fish, whitefish (as
>Jill did). I just have never seen "Whitefish" in any market except
>smoked.
>
>Sorry I made you ask you ex ;-)
>
>-sw

Because I grew up with Whitefish, I never considered any other
meaning. No problem about ex, we are friends.
Janet US

On 9/28/2012 10:15 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:

> It is pretty difficult around here to get an actual paper prescription
> in your hand. The nurses/medicos fax the prescription to the
> pharmacy, if you need a refill, the pharmacy faxes the doctor or nurse
> and receives a fax back. Basically you pick a pharmacy before you
> have a prescription. The doctor's office want s to have that info in
> your file ahead of time.

They do that with most meds, but pharmacies here require a printed
prescription for certain narcotics. In this case it was a good thing
because the pharmacy I always use is the one that was out, so I could
just take the printed prescription to another pharmacy.

On 9/28/2012 11:06 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> Here in TX the really controlled substances (Demerol, Percocet,
> Penobarbitol) have 3-part forge-resistant forms. Hydrocodone up to
> 10mg (Norco) and the like are just simple paper prescriptions.
>
> (This thread sure veered off quick)

Percocet was what I was on, but it was changed to just oxidocone without
acetaminophen. It has to be hand written to be filled.

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:31:43 -0500, "Nunya Bidnits"
<nunyabidnits@eternal-septe[email protected]> wrote:

>Sqwertz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:54:26 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> "Sqwertz" wrote in message news:6t4u3tzoqa$.[email protected]..
>>>
>>>> ObFood: Inarizushi for lunch today.
>>>
>>> Now *that* is confusing. I'm guessing it is some sort of Japanese
>>> dish but really I have no idea. My father was the one fascinated by
>>> Japan, not me.
>>
>> You'd recognize it if you saw it:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqwertz...in/photostream
>>
>> Inside (cucumber, carrot, sriracha mayo, and sushi rice):
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqwertz...n/photostream/
>>
>
>Nice.

Inside looks exactly like maggots... look long enough you'll see them
moving. LOL

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:18:02 -0600, Janet Bostwick
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:20:58 -0500, Sqwertz <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:42:49 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> I waffled back & forth between spaghetti or fish. I settled on fish. Pan
>>> fried white fish fillets, coated with Zatarain's Fish Fri mix.
>>
>>What kind of "white fish".
>>
>>Other than smoked whitefish, I have seen anything labeled "White
>>Fish". Nor have I heard of anybody fishing for "white fish".
>>Must be a regional thing.
>>
>>-sw
>
>I checked with my ex on this one. There are two types (my words) of
>whitefish. Mountain and Lake or Great Lakes. Basically, they have
>white flesh. They are way yummy.
>I got the whole lecture from him about where they were introduced to
>waters and where natural, etc. I have had whitefish from Idaho
>mountain streams, Glacier Lake and Lake Michigan. Yum, yum.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_whitefish and also
>
>http://inlandseafood.com/upload/Buyi...-WHITEFISH.pdf
>Janet US

For already prepped/bredded products; "white fish"... two words (ie.
sticks/fast food fish, etc. ) they mean *white fleshed* fish, as in
cod.

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:20:45 -0600, Janet Bostwick
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:01:19 -0500, Sqwertz <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>snip
>>I just thought most people considered any white fish, whitefish (as
>>Jill did). I just have never seen "Whitefish" in any market except
>>smoked.
>>
>>Sorry I made you ask you ex ;-)
>>
>>-sw
>
>Because I grew up with Whitefish, I never considered any other
>meaning. No problem about ex, we are friends.
>Janet US

For commercially prepared fish products, such as breaded sticks/cakes,
they mean *white fleshed* ocean fish, such as cod... NOT fresh water
"whitefish".

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:15:45 -0600, Janet Bostwick
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:03:11 -0400, Cheryl <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>On 9/28/2012 5:36 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>
>>> I don't feel much like cooking today so I decided to use a can of
>>> Costco chunk chicken breast, a Pillsbury pie crust and my own veggies
>>> and milk to make a chicken pot pie. I added some thyme to the sauce.
>>> I will brush the crust with milk and sprinkle with either coarse
>>> pepper or some season salt.
>>
>>That sounds like a good pantry dinner. I didn't make dinner tonight. I
>>had a rough day. I called the surgeon on Monday to mail me a refill of
>>pain meds and it didn't get here until today. I was getting concerned
>>because I took the last of them yesterday and I didn't want a forced
>>withdrawal since I wouldn't be able to get a hold of the surgeon until
>>monday and likely by then I'd be a sick mess.
>>
>>So when the script came today I drove for the first time in several
>>weeks to get it filled. I had to go to two pharmacy because my first
>>choice was out of them. Second choice had them but they were busy. I
>>spent a lot of time on my feet today, which was a semi-good thing. I
>>think I'm healing! So I'm going to use this refill to wean off of them.
>> Wish me luck!
>>
>>Oh, and dinner was just some pistachios, enough to fill me up. Trying
>>to remember what else I ate today. Nothing really healthful since I
>>didn't really cook. I think I'll have a bowlful of my homemade ice
>>cream and call it a day.
>
>It is pretty difficult around here to get an actual paper prescription
>in your hand. The nurses/medicos fax the prescription to the
>pharmacy, if you need a refill, the pharmacy faxes the doctor or nurse
>and receives a fax back. Basically you pick a pharmacy before you
>have a prescription. The doctor's office want s to have that info in
>your file ahead of time.
>Janet US

The doctors here will either phone/fax the pharmacy or if you're in
the office they will either hand you a written/printed Rx or phone/fax
the pharmacy of your choice. Most doctors nowadays carry a type of
hand held PC that's a phone and printer. My main pharmacy is mail
order and will fax the doctor when a one year refill is due, or they
will mail me a packet of 90 day stickers for my doctor to stick on
their Rx, sign, and mail in the supplied postage paid envelope, or
hand me back the scrips to mail at my convenience... I don't like to
send in the refills too early or I lose the last few days on the old
scrip and/or they send the meds too early while I still have a goodly
supply and then I risk accumulating a collection of expired meds. I
use three different pharmacys; mail order, a local, and Walmart...
also the Vet... some pet meds can be gotten at Walmart, and for a
whole lot less money, a quarter the price. The Vet sells insulin
syringes for $140.00/100, at Walmart the 100 syringes cost $21.00 and
they are a far better quality product. Anyone with a pet that needs
meds talk to your Walmart pharmacist, they may not keep them in stock
but they can order most and have them the very next day... actually
any pharmacy can obtain pet meds but they choose not to bother. My
local Super Walmart has "Blackie Martin (feline)" in their computer. I
also obtain specially compounded cat meds from a specialty pharmacy,
even the Vet has to send you there, very few pharmacies do compounding
anymore... Mooch gets her Thyroid cream compounded here:
http://www.fallonpharmacy.com/c53/Methimazole-p247.html

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:15:46 -0400, Cheryl <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 9/28/2012 10:15 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
>> It is pretty difficult around here to get an actual paper prescription
>> in your hand. The nurses/medicos fax the prescription to the
>> pharmacy, if you need a refill, the pharmacy faxes the doctor or nurse
>> and receives a fax back. Basically you pick a pharmacy before you
>> have a prescription. The doctor's office want s to have that info in
>> your file ahead of time.
>
>They do that with most meds, but pharmacies here require a printed
>prescription for certain narcotics. In this case it was a good thing
>because the pharmacy I always use is the one that was out, so I could
>just take the printed prescription to another pharmacy.

There was only one of mine that required written prescription. I only
filled it once on the first surgery. The rest of the time I was on
Norco and that does contain acetaminophen, so I guess I didn't have
your problem. 1or 2 Norco taken every 4 hours kept me pain free.
Sorry you have more to deal with.
However, with the faxed prescriptions, if the pharmacy doesn't have
what you need (at least here) they will transfer it to the next
pharmacy of your choice. I'm sorry to had to run around, especially
since you shouldn't be driving while on drugs.
Janet US

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:45:22 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:20:45 -0600, Janet Bostwick
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:01:19 -0500, Sqwertz <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>snip
>>>I just thought most people considered any white fish, whitefish (as
>>>Jill did). I just have never seen "Whitefish" in any market except
>>>smoked.
>>>
>>>Sorry I made you ask you ex ;-)
>>>
>>>-sw
>>
>>Because I grew up with Whitefish, I never considered any other
>>meaning. No problem about ex, we are friends.
>>Janet US
>
>For commercially prepared fish products, such as breaded sticks/cakes,
>they mean *white fleshed* ocean fish, such as cod... NOT fresh water
>"whitefish".

Most of them that I have seen are using Pollock.
Janet US

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 02:27:53 +0000 (UTC), [email protected]
(Steve Pope) wrote:

>Janet Bostwick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>It is pretty difficult around here to get an actual paper prescription
>>in your hand.
>
>That's odd; I've had two paper prescriptions handed to me
>in the past couple years, one of which was for a controlled
>substance.
>
>Any doctor can write out a prescription on paper, even those
>who standardly enter it into a computer.
>
>>The nurses/medicos fax the prescription to the
>>pharmacy, if you need a refill, the pharmacy faxes the doctor or nurse
>>and receives a fax back. Basically you pick a pharmacy before you
>>have a prescription. The doctor's office wants to have that info in
>>your file ahead of time.
>
>I have never encountered this. The paper prescriptions now have
>anti-forgery features; if it's a controlled substance, the
>pharmacy must exchange faxes with the prescribing doctor before
>filling it (and obtain an I.D. from the person picking it up).
>
>(The most common use of a paper prescription these days is if, at the
>time of the medical appointment, there is still uncertainty the
>patient will get it filled. e.g. "If you don't get better
>in three days, take these meds.")
>
>Steve

I've never encountered a doctor that doesn't hand write an Rx, but
nowadays most hand you an Rx that's printed on a PC... nowadays most
doctors have their Rx pad loaded into a PC printer thingie... or if
the patient chooses they will have their staff phone/fax the Rx to a
pharmacy of your choice, that way by the time one drives from the
doctor's office to the pharmacy the meds are waiting. These days all
ones Rx meds are on line, any doctor, pharmacy, hospitol has access to
all the Rx meds one has purchased in their entire lifetime... when you
go to a new doctor or the ER they will ask you about which meds you
take but then they will immediately check on line and print out all
the meds you've ever purchased. All your medical procedures are on
line as well, had an pappendectomy 50 years ago it's on line, even
your dental work, all of it, even a cleaning.

On 9/29/2012 12:34 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:45:22 -0400, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:20:45 -0600, Janet Bostwick
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:01:19 -0500, Sqwertz <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> snip
>>>> I just thought most people considered any white fish, whitefish (as
>>>> Jill did). I just have never seen "Whitefish" in any market except
>>>> smoked.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I made you ask you ex ;-)
>>>>
>>>> -sw
>>>
>>> Because I grew up with Whitefish, I never considered any other
>>> meaning. No problem about ex, we are friends.
>>> Janet US
>>
>> For commercially prepared fish products, such as breaded sticks/cakes,
>> they mean *white fleshed* ocean fish, such as cod... NOT fresh water
>> "whitefish".
>
> Most of them that I have seen are using Pollock.
> Janet US
>
Tilapia is certainly white, and grows in "fresh" water. The texture
isn't bad but it has no taste that I can detect.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

On 29/09/2012 1:01 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

>
> I've never encountered a doctor that doesn't hand write an Rx, but
> nowadays most hand you an Rx that's printed on a PC.

Over the last two years I have seen more doctors and had more
appointments than I had over the rest of my life. I have also had a lot
more prescriptions than over the rest of my life. Every single one of
them was hand written.

Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 29/09/2012 1:01 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

>> I've never encountered a doctor that doesn't hand write an Rx, but
>> nowadays most hand you an Rx that's printed on a PC.

>Over the last two years I have seen more doctors and had more
>appointments than I had over the rest of my life. I have also had a lot
>more prescriptions than over the rest of my life. Every single one of
>them was hand written.

For me it's the exception, since I'm in an HMO whose doctors are
connected by computer to the HMO pharmacies. But, if the
script isn't being filled immediately, it is way more convenient
for the doctor to write on paper, than for him/her to play phone
tag with you and the pharmacy later.

Steve

On Saturday, September 29, 2012 3:18:42 AM UTC-4, Cheryl wrote:
> On 9/28/2012 11:06 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > Here in TX the really controlled substances (Demerol, Percocet,
>
> > Penobarbitol) have 3-part forge-resistant forms. Hydrocodone up to
>
> > 10mg (Norco) and the like are just simple paper prescriptions.
>
> >
>
> > (This thread sure veered off quick)
>
>
>
> Percocet was what I was on, but it was changed to just oxidocone without
>
> acetaminophen. It has to be hand written to be filled.

Pure Oxycodone is quite an unusual outpatient prescription. I'm not surprised it needs a physical script. On the "market", those are really valuable. A drug addict's dream.

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:34:32 -0400, Dave Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 29/09/2012 1:01 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>>
>> I've never encountered a doctor that doesn't hand write an Rx, but
>> nowadays most hand you an Rx that's printed on a PC.
>
>Over the last two years I have seen more doctors and had more
>appointments than I had over the rest of my life. I have also had a lot
>more prescriptions than over the rest of my life. Every single one of
>them was hand written.
>


I've not seen a written prescription in over 10 years. The doc's
computer knows the pharmacy and he just clicks and it is there when I
get there.

Only had written is when my wife leaves the hospital. Discharging
doctor writes them and they hand them to you. They must not be tied
in the system with local pharmacies.

On 9/29/2012 12:31 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:

> There was only one of mine that required written prescription. I only
> filled it once on the first surgery. The rest of the time I was on
> Norco and that does contain acetaminophen, so I guess I didn't have
> your problem. 1or 2 Norco taken every 4 hours kept me pain free.
> Sorry you have more to deal with.
> However, with the faxed prescriptions, if the pharmacy doesn't have
> what you need (at least here) they will transfer it to the next
> pharmacy of your choice. I'm sorry to had to run around, especially
> since you shouldn't be driving while on drugs.

I wonder if the requirement of a written prescription with the doctors
signature is a regional thing? But anyway, I wasn't on the meds
yesterday because I was out of them. I'm sure they still stay in your
system even when you don't take them, but I felt in control and not drugged.