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Your encounters with pharmacists

You know, it was a fucking PARTY before the government started tracking prescriptions. Plus, pharmacies and doctors can immediately find out what you've picked up...when, where, and how much. I miss the days when you could go to three doctors in one day, and fill the scripts at different pharmacies.

I've had lots of encounters with pharmacists. Most were cool, some were cunts. A few months ago, I called a CVS to see if my Tramadol could be filled. Pharmacist said yes, so I went in, all happy. But when I got there, I couldn't pick it up. Why? Her response: "I said I'd fill it, but I didn't say you could pick it up." Fucking cunt.

I've found that private pharmacies are a bit more lenient than the chains. Especially if you're polite and turn on the charm.
 
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Pharmacists are like cops, doctors, therapists, teachers, parents, plumbers, truckers, cooks, receptionists, carpenters, managers, bosses, and people who drank milk when they were children: they're human.

25% excellent, wonderful
25% idiotic, sociopathic
50% OK, meh

Most pharmacists I've dealt with simply did their jobs and made no impression on me.
A few were condescending, judgmental, or just rude.

One stands out in my memory: It was the late 1980s, the peak of the AIDS epidemic. I was severely alcoholic and strung out on IV cocaine-- and I definitely looked like it. I asked the young lady at the ORDER desk (she looked new, maybe still training) for a 10-pack of 100 unit insulin syringes. She asked for my diabetes card. I hemmed&hawed, then said "I use them for my abstract paintings." The old gentleman (the actual pharmacist) in the window behind her looked at me sadly but with sympathy and said to her "It's OK. Let him have them."
 
jasperkent said:
Pharmacists are like cops, doctors, therapists, teachers, parents, plumbers, truckers, cooks, receptionists, carpenters, managers, bosses, and people who drank milk when they were children: they're human.

25% excellent, wonderful
25% idiotic, sociopathic
50% OK, meh

Most pharmacists I've dealt with simply did their jobs and made no impression on me.
A few were condescending, judgmental, or just rude.

One stands out in my memory: It was the late 1980s, the peak of the AIDS epidemic. I was severely alcoholic and strung out on IV cocaine-- and I definitely looked like it. I asked the young lady at the ORDER desk (she looked new, maybe still training) for a 10-pack of 100 unit insulin syringes. She asked for my diabetes card. I hemmed&hawed, then said "I use them for my abstract paintings." The old gentleman (the actual pharmacist) in the window behind her looked at me sadly but with sympathy and said to her "It's OK. Let him have them."
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Range from the obviously enlightened to the deserve electrocution...
 
There's something called "Pharmacist's Discretion," which basically means they don't HAVE to fill a prescription if they choose not to. Doesn't matter if it's a legitimate script or not. Doesn't matter if the DOCTOR calls it in. If they choose not to fill it, they don't have to.
Many times, if they LIKE you, they'll fill early. If not, you're totally fucked.
 
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Professional discression or unchallenged prejudice. Anything that gives power over others will inevitably attract some narrow minded people (I've seen a few megalomaniacs let loose in schools).
The Millbrook (I think it's something like that) experiment, about how power over others encourages appalling behaviour ie power corrupts
 
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Yeah, pharmacists often think they are all that. Recently refilling a non-psychoactive prescription I got a text alert that it was ready. It was not. When I mentioned that I'd gotten the alert, the pharmacist snapped at me at length, acting as if I was being a Karen.

I had Covid a few months back. It did hit me fairly hard. My doc called in Paxlovid. Seven hours later, having breathing issues, I called the pharmacy. The kid on the other end told me that they had to check with my doctor to see if I needed a renal dose.
"The doctor asked me if I had kidney issues.", I said.
"Umm, OK?" the kid replied.
"Do you know what renal means?"
"No"

You need a smaller dose of Paxlovid if you have renal issues.
Renal means related to the kidneys.

I was sucking wind when I got my Paxlovid, but that got better a couple hours after I took it.
I got on my CPAP machine and slept for 15 hours.
Woke up just feeling like a bad flu.
Paxlovid is a game changer.
Happy ending.
 
Im 15 and on more perscription meds than my great grandma was before she passed.

Im perscribed lexapro, trazadone, buspar, vyvanse, atovastatin, zorfran, pepcid, zertec, and D3.

Even though some of them are avalible otc, i am perscibed them because they are a medical nessesity and i need them to be covered by insurence because otherwise id be spending half my fucking paycheck on meds. You would think a pharmisist of all people would understand that but ig not.

Because im a minor my mom has to be with me when i pick them up. And although i never am treated poorly myself, they treat my mother as though its somehow her fault or that shes irresponisible for letting my doctor perscrobe me so much. The eyerolls, sarcasm, and annoyance in thier voices is so fucking unproffesional and it is liturally EVERY. FUCKIN. TIME.
 
I have had a pharmacist flat refuse to fill a script I had to restoril (temazepam) to the point he said the doctor must have made a mistake about the dosage. FTR (3 30 mgs a day). I asked kindly to look in the computer and see that this is a monthly event. I do believe I was accused of prescription forgery in a very suburbian way. Luckily my doctor was quite pissed that his orders were being questioned by the local pez dispensers.

on another account I had a bottle of suboxone straight "dissapear". I couldn't get a ride to fill it for two, three weeks. They said it was back stocked and needed my doctor to call. He informed me he did and they said no such script existed. Yes I am positive, some pez-boy got a nice handout im pretty sure.

I have also had a pharmacist literally throw my drugs at me, skipped em threw the whole. Gotta give him points for the velocity it came it hot; and told me I could get my "fucking drugs" somewhere else.

I reccomend avoiding anyplace that starts with wal and find a mom and pop pharm; I find them way less judgemental and on a rare rare occasion and I mean rare they may even let some humanity shine through.

(on more than one occasion I have HEARD directly that elderly family members have gotten handfuls of non-controlled meds as hold overs in emergency type situations) Never saw it in person.

I would prefer a robot all day long. Of course I am speaking of pharm techs not pharmacists for the most part. The Pharmacist rarely if ever has anything to do with me unless I directly request interaction; In which case it is usually cold but positive and factual.

hate em hate em hate em. cash register jockeys who have way too much power over people's lives and largely get off on knowing you are at there mercy for one brief second. thats just one humans opinion.

even with all that said 90% of the time there is no problem and everyone minds there manners.
 
Iwas kicked out of a hospital the other day because i didnt have a smartphone ffs. When i left it i thought ill either go to a bar or a pharmacy to call my brother and a pharmacy came first. i told them what was going on and they didnt judge me they judt called my brother who was a lawyer to straighten it out. So i cant say anything bad about pharmacies
 
Nothing but good experiences with them, very lovely people never got sneered or laughed at for buying antipsychotics, some even helped my friend get babymilk when it was the end of the month and she didn't have cash left anymore
 
Pharmacists get off on power tripping. They honestly think they are doctors when in reality they are order takers. They are bean counters and most of them hate their jobs as they appear to be overworked and understaffed. The entire system is a joke at this point.
 
damn this guy is going hard about pharmacist lol PharmD is a degree and if you a PharmD in the Nuc Med field, id argue different but everyone has there opinion.

I'm not a pharmacist but work closely with them.
 
paranoid android said:
Iwas kicked out of a hospital the other day because i didnt have a smartphone ffs. When i left it i thought ill either go to a bar or a pharmacy to call my brother and a pharmacy came first. i told them what was going on and they didnt judge me they judt called my brother who was a lawyer to straighten it out. So i cant say anything bad about pharmacies
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wow I have no cellphone and noone believes me.......but why on gods green earth would I want no excuse not to answer the phone ever?
 
I think most people are interpreting this question as being about retail pharmacists. I agree that some are good and some bad.

But clinical pharmacists are often the most valuable member of the team in a hospital. Ask any ER or internal medicine doctor (or nurse) and they will tell you the PharmD plays a huge role in creating the treatment plan. Often times the doctor will just ask them what they would choose, and write the script the pharmacist tells them.

It’s unfortunate that pharmacists are not utilized much in out patient settings, and most people’s impression is that they’re just the person counting pills at CVS.
 
fastandbulbous said:
^ another reason for my dislike of medicine for profit. An NHS has to have a fucking good reason for such behaviour, or it's a complaint that, if upheld can fuck their career
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NHS has to be protected from tories they slowly trying to fuck it up but i gell Americans when there I'm also American dual citizen that brits wont take a fuck up of NHS i would say the greatest British institution . I was cyt out of a car spent weeks in hospital with broken ribs col,lasped lung and torn muscles not one worry about medical bills .

I just picked up my pregabalin prescription told pharmacist on Monday to send email to doctor to sign it of got it on Wednesday received text on phone from chemist called him he said it ready pick it up
 
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