Survival for the Rest of Us- Code #2
MEDICAL SURVIVAL: CONTINUITY & CONTROL
**If your medicine runs out, your options shrink.
Our job is to make sure that never happens
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THE SCENARIO (REAL LIFE, HAPPENS EVERY DAY)
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A guy goes to refill his prescription.
The pharmacy says: “We’re waiting on the doctor’s approval.”
The doctor’s office says: “The pharmacy hasn’t requested anything.”
The patient portal shows nothing.
He calls back and gets placed on hold for 47 minutes, only to be told to “check back tomorrow.”
Tomorrow turns into four days.
He ends up splitting pills to stretch them out — not because he’s irresponsible, but because the system gets jammed and nobody owns the problem.
That’s not “healthcare.”
That’s a hostage situation.
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✅ THE LAW OF MEDICAL SURVIVAL:
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> If you don’t control your continuity, you don’t control your care.
Doctors are busy. Pharmacies are overwhelmed. Insurance plays referee from the cheap seats.
So you must treat your medication and medical info like a survival asset.
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🔒 THE 4P FRAMEWORK
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(simple, repeatable, power move)
✅ 1. PREPARE — Know what your life depends on
Make a Medication Continuity Sheet (1 page, paper).
Medication Dose Prescribing Doctor Pharmacy Refill Date
Keep a copy:
In your wallet
In your glove compartment
In your emergency folder
> If it’s only in the cloud… then it’s not yours.
✅ 2. PLAN — Remove single points of failure
Ask for:
90-day refills (insurance allows if you ASK)
Paper prescriptions (yes, they still exist)
Backup pharmacy on file
Use this script:
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> “I’m building redundancy for continuity of care.
Could you print a physical prescription as a backup?”
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They won’t argue with continuity of care. It’s magic language.
✅ 3. PREVENT — Stop refill delays BEFORE they happen
The day you pick up your meds, set a reminder in your phone for 20 days before your next refill is due.
When that reminder goes off, send this:
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> To doctor’s office: “Requesting refill approval for continuity.
Please confirm once sent.”
> To pharmacy: “Refill request should be coming to you.
Please confirm receipt.”
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Make them communicate before it becomes urgent.
✅ 4. PROTECT — Build a Medical Continuity Kit
This is mission critical:
Paper list of meds
Copies of printed prescriptions
Emergency contacts
USB flash drive WITH docs scanned (PDF)
At least 1 week of extra medication (keep in rotation, don’t hoard)
Paper doesn’t crash.
Paper doesn’t wait on a portal.
Paper doesn’t care if the power grid goes down.
💥 COMMUNITY POWER MOVE
This is not “prepper paranoia.”
This is taking back control from a system that treats you like a number.
> We are rebuilding something that used to exist:
community watching out for each other.
If you discover:
A trick
A workaround
A cheaper option
A resource others should know about
Send it here:
📧 survivalfortherestofus1@gmail.com
I’ll include the best hacks in future posts — no names shared unless you ask.
This is a community help desk.
We learn together. We build power together.
We don’t hoard knowledge — we share it.
✊ CLOSING
They took away our sense of community.
We’re taking it back — one code at a time.
Print your sheets.
Get your backups.
Control your continuity.
You deserve peace of mind, not panic.
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In Resistance & Truth,
Jerry Chiles
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