Doctor Rx'd a drug I am ALLERGIC to-RANT

BarbaraA

Didn't know where to put this rant but I have been struggling with diarrhea since pre BC (April). Pretty much tried everything diet-wise and my PCP tested me 10 ways to Sunday so he had me go to a gastro. I had an ulcer 5 years ago (eating 20 advil a day) and he was my gastro before so I went to him.  Had a colonoscopy two weeks ago plus a biopsy. Good news is: all is well including, I don't have colon cancer...YAY!.

So, the nurse who delivered the results told me they were calling in an Rx. I showed up the next day to get it. The pharmacist said that my insurance wouldn't pay for it because the dosage is too high. They said they called my doc to get them to reduce it but no one called them back. So I wrote down the name of it so I could call them and raise hell.

Get home, look up the drug. It has sulfa in it. I AM ALLERGIC to sulfa. ALL OVER my charts of every doc I have.

I call. Leave a scathing message. This is at 11 AM. Finally get a very apologetic call back at 4:30 (this is Fri) telling me they will prescribe another drug. I ask what. They tell me and I tell them I'll get back to them. This one is a steroid. WTF?

Anyway, the point of the rant is: should I fire his a$$? I mean, come on! If I had taken that drug, I could be dead.

Thoughts?