One query about the call vs text matter, was the information known about the prescription before the pharmacy closing time? If not the call vs text matters less than timing of information. Assumption seems to be that there was a delay in text receipt not in the information in the text.
I think call vs text vs email is purely personal preference. However in areas of poor mobile reception calls do not always get through but texts do. In our house mobile coverage is very patchy. I've had family call our mobiles, not get connected then sent a text that got through. But it is personal preference call, text or email.Â
The problem is that texts aren't always instantaneous, and I've certainly come across people who didn't know that there can be a delay of possibly hours. In this case it meant the difference between someone getting vital medication in time for the weekend and not getting it. A call and if necessary a voicemail left is I think usually better for anything that's time-critical.
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The problem is that texts aren't always instantaneous, and I've certainly come across people who didn't know that there can be a delay of possibly hours. In this case it meant the difference between someone getting vital medication in time for the weekend and not getting it. A call and if necessary a voicemail left is I think usually better for anything that's time-critical.
Think you’ve hit the nail on the head @JennyJ … I know that some networks in some areas are really rubbish re texts. Here mine are almost instantaneous.Â
Perhaps a call to the GP practice to have an ‘In first instance please phone rather than text’ notice on your and hubby’s file and notes …?
Thats certainly what we had for some Service users when I did social work.Â
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Sometimes, as in @Hostafan1's case, text messages don't get through at the time they're sent. (Or, in my case, at all... early last Sunday morning our church service was cancelled due to illness. The church warden sent us all a text message. Mine still hasn't arrived - I found the church locked when I got there and had to ring someone to find out what was happening.)
I'm sure Hostafan doesn't need me to defend him, but I'm also quite sure that he is in no way "phone obsessed", @NorthernJoe. He carries his phone in his pocket because he is caring for his terminally ill husband, and was expecting a call from the Hospice Nurse about the morphine patches his husband needs. If you'd read his post properly you'd know that was the case, and that the text message didn't arrive until 19.10, which was after the last time given for collecting the patches.Â
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If the delay was purely in receiving a text but the previous phone call got thru OK then why not use the phone again ? If the information was urgent, use a bit of nous and the best means of communication. Text versus email is a different matter entirely - urgent stuff needs to be communicated by the quickest and simplest method.Â
Exactly, @philippasmith2. If you speak to someone in person you know they've received the urgent information. Texts and emails can get swallowed in the ether, and you don't know if they've been received.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We have no mobile signal here,  I had a phone call appointment with the doctor, then the landline phone broke,  I send an online message to cancel saying I couldn’t phone, no phone, no signal.  They sent a text back and said thanks for letting us know,
I think the answer is to say you haven't got a mobile in the first place.Â
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the fact that the text said " if you can get to the chemist before 6.30" would suggest it was sent prior to that time, yet it didn't arrive until 7.10, ie too late.Â
If a piece of information is important enough, then call. If it's not that important, I'm not interested in reading text messages.Â
I've just had a text this afternoon and had to stop cutting the grass, drive up to the garage, get my glasses ( only needed for reading )and find somewhere out of the sun to read it. . Text messaging is a bandwagon upon which I refuse to jump.
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I think call vs text vs email is purely personal preference. However in areas of poor mobile reception calls do not always get through but texts do. In our house mobile coverage is very patchy. I've had family call our mobiles, not get connected then sent a text that got through. But it is personal preference call, text or email.Â
… I know that some networks in some areas are really rubbish re texts. Here mine are almost instantaneous.Â
rather than text’ notice on your and hubby’s file and notes …?
Thats certainly what we had for some Service users when I did social work.Â
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I'm sure Hostafan doesn't need me to defend him, but I'm also quite sure that he is in no way "phone obsessed", @NorthernJoe. He carries his phone in his pocket because he is caring for his terminally ill husband, and was expecting a call from the Hospice Nurse about the morphine patches his husband needs. If you'd read his post properly you'd know that was the case, and that the text message didn't arrive until 19.10, which was after the last time given for collecting the patches.Â
Text versus email is a different matter entirely - urgent stuff needs to be communicated by the quickest and simplest method.Â
I think the answer is to say you haven't got a mobile in the first place.Â
If a piece of information is important enough, then call. If it's not that important, I'm not interested in reading text messages.Â
I've just had a text this afternoon and had to stop cutting the grass, drive up to the garage, get my glasses ( only needed for reading )and find somewhere out of the sun to read it. .
Text messaging is a bandwagon upon which I refuse to jump.