Our PCP retired in December. We followed all the rules and signed up online for a new PCP. When we went to the pharmacy to renew prescriptions, some had expired, requiring new PCP visits for prescription renewal. The new PCP only takes new patients on certain days of the month and we scheduled appointments a month or more away. But when we asked for temp prescription renewal we hit a catch-22. Pharmacy: I can't refill until your PCP has approved. PCP: I can't renew until I see you. And I can't see you for a month. No ability to get tide-over medications, just too bad, you might try calling some of those new clinics.
The medications we were most concerned about were my wife's blood pressure meds which are not supposed to be suddenly stopped. She ran out almost a month before the scheduled PCP appointment. On April 6 of this year, my wife suddenly died of a massive heart attack. I am haunted by the thought that suddenly stopping the medications contributed to her death. Even if it did not, however, this between-PCP coincidental problem seems wrong and should be corrected.
My wife died last week.
