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Originally Posted by Newbiesaukee
To follow up on the preceding, it is, IMO, irresponsible for a physician to prescribe prednisone over the phone without seeing the patient. ....
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Well I'm not going to argue about the risks involved with prednisone, I'm not a physician. My real point was that duck itch is not an emergency condition.
A good doctors office would more than likely squeeze you in. If they could not, they can prescibed medicine over the phone to hold you over and scheduled a follow-up in the next few days. I can't remember getting prednisone over the phone, but I have been prescribed over the phone several times. Most towns have one drugstore open late night just to handle late night presciptions.
IMHO emergency rooms are for emergencies.