Saw an urgent care doctor for my joints, and I think they prescribed the wrong medicine. Similar names though, so I get why it happened, but it still amuses me that I got prescribed an antifungal instead of an anti inflammatory. Diflucan instead of Diclofenac.

This could of course have been potentially really bad. I could have been prescribed something that could have done serious harm. Thankfully this isn't the case, and I was able to catch it before I even took the medicine

@Kilroy sadly, it happens. my housemate was prescribed a medicine that would interact very badly with another of his medicines; he caught it and corrected it but, yow.

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