I’m truly curious. Not even trying to complain, I understand the hospitals are full but like what takes so long to print paperwork?
UPDATE: Thank you all for your input and responses, it definitely helped the time pass by. We are home now. I do understand waiting is not suffering but at some point something has to give. We have an infant and toddler who had to be left with family and we were anxious to get home to them. I understand we are not the only people who have ever had to wait for discharge. I was truly curious as to what the hold up is. After getting incoming responses seeming to state that this is normal, it all got to me. This should not be normal and the patient, critical or not, should not have to get the short end of the stick. Reality or not. In a perfect world I guess.
Sorry to all the underpaid, over worked staff.
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Pro tip: As others have said, hospital pharmacy can take hours. If you know you are going home with medication, ask your doctor for the paper script for you to fill at your local pharmacy (sometimes the doctor can send the script electronically to your pharmacy). Picking up the prescription yourself can save you hours of waiting around for meds from the hospital’s pharmacy.
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