This was an urgent care place so I wasn’t expecting a full workup necessarily. Just simple relief from constant vomiting.
And this was right in the very beginning so assuming it was viral stomach flu was reasonable.
What was not reasonable imho was his refusal of a written prescription because it would have cost him nothing other than a few extra minutes. It cost me 12 more hours of abject misery.
Once I get some extra energy back I am going to call and speak to whomever runs this place and give them a piece of my mind.
I went to my own family practice doc the next day. But in the future I’m going to the ER (which is only about 5 mins away)
The only reason I didn’t this time is because I’ve never managed to get out of that ER in less than the typical 3–4 hours, even when I was the only patient there and only needed a fairly simple diagnostic test to rule out DVT.
But at least that ER is generally staffed by reasonably competent people.
I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have any qualms about writing for a simple anti emetic in addition to the phenergan shot. And I likely wouldn’t have even had to ask.