I got a call from my pharmacy this morning with what has got to be the single most idiotic question of all time.

My doctor ordered some refills and they were processing them, but they had to call me to ask “the prescription that they sent over will cost you $200 co-pay, but we have another one here, that’s absolutely identical in every way, that’s free. Which one do you want us to send?”

Are you fucking kidding me?

Nobody in their right mind is going to say “send me the $200 stuff!” What part of your brain broke down that you picked up the phone to ask me that question?

This is the state of the modern medical industry and I am positively sick of it. I get calls like this all the time, not just from the pharmacy trying to decipher what the hell the doctor is doing, but from the doctor asking me absolutely insane questions as well. Where did the ability to think go?

Personally, I just want them both to leave me alone, but I get stuck in the middle because the pharmacy has dumb questions for the doctor and the doctor absolutely refuses to talk to the pharmacy. I get to scream at one side or the other by proxy and I’m sick of it. This is what I’m paying them for! Figure it out! It can’t be that hard!

The brains of modern-day America seem to have atrophied and I’m tired of having to deal with it. Can someone please stop the planet?  I want to get off!