The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Same here.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Take one to a pharmacist. Free, two minutes, correct. Everything else here is a hypothesis.
Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time.
Pharmacist. Two minutes.
Sorry, probably obvious, but where do you even start with something blank?
The hologram is the least useful check because it is the one everybody makes.
Batch and expiry copied from a real box will already be nearly expired. That is the tell.
Same here.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.