Further scenarios

摘要

Your article about emergency supplies (PJ,16July,p76) describes well the situation in holiday areas.There are two other scenarios that occur frequently.First there is the patient or family that arrives at the holiday destination having decided not to bring their medicines with them,but instead to bring their monthly prescriptions with up to 15 items to the local pharmacy - at about five o'clock on a Saturday afternoon.Among these items will be one or two which are not used by the holiday pharmacy.This means that the patient will be without these medicines until supplies can be obtained on Monday morning.