dealing with residents

I have some resident dr's at work that I love to deal with. However, there are so many others that really make you wonder how they could be so dumb! Today I called my dr's office and specifically said that I wanted to see my PCP and not one of the residents. But who did I end up seeing? Yup, an R2. I had been up coughing all night and actually threw up from coughing so much (in spite of taking robitussin.) I told her my glands were swollen, was running a fever, cough, etc and that there was a virus going around and I knew it was viral but needed something for my cough. She left the room and came back 45 minutes later and said she'd written me a script for aceteminaphin 500mg but wasn't going to rx anything for cough because robitussin should be good enough. I just laughed and said "I don't need a script for Tylenol!" She said "well, it is extra strength Tylenol." Right. Extra strength tylenol - cause that requires a script! You would have thought I'd asked for morphine or something! (not that I would have minded having some!) It drives me crazy that I had to pay my full copay for a visit with the R2. I handed back her script for Extra-Strength Tylenol before I left!