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AuTiger609

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  1. The Season 4 episode "High Anxiety," where we discover Rose has been addicted to painkillers the past 30 years, has always bothered me as a pharmacist, simply because it just isn't plausible. Most prescriptions (including all refills on it) expire after a year, meaning that in order for Rose to continue getting that medication, her doctor would have been issuing her a new prescription EVERY SINGLE YEAR for 30 years. Even if her doctor had been willing to do this--which is highly unlikely; no decent doctor is going to continue prescribing a pain medication for a _temporary_ injury--he would have likely retired by the time Rose was 30 years into the prescription, meaning he couldn't have continued prescribing it even if he wanted to. Add to that the fact that most pharmacies would question a prescription for narcotics written by a doctor in another state (ie, Rose was getting it filled in Miami but the prescriber was from St Olaf), and thus would not likely be willing to fill it, and it evident the writers of this episode didn't think this one through and/or hoped people wouldn't know that prescriptions actually expire/can't be filled for an indefinite amount of time.
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