| I mean, it's one thing to be cautious - but it's another thing altogether to be an ass |
Exactly.
| So what was snotty pharmacist #2's response when you told him you didn't appreciate being treated like a criminal? |
It was the same pharmacist, and he said that he was sorry I felt like I had been unfairly treated - whch is a bullshit response. It's not an apology, it's a way of placing the blame back on me.
| though I can almost, almost, almost see the other side of things where the pharmacy is trying to keep people that shouldn't be getting heavy duty meds from snagging them. |
Oh, I can too! I KNOW that it's a huge issue, and that's why I try to use the same pharmacy every time. But, when I go in to pick up the meds they've ordered for me, I usually find they gave them to someone else - and they send me to a different place to get my meds. Then, when I go back the next month to get 'scripts filled, they say 'well, you didn't fill these here last month! You must be pharmacy shopping!'.
It's just not fair.
| It would do good to complain to Walgreen's corporate offices though |
I'm going to this time. It's not just the pharmacist anymore, it's a couple of the techs now too. Fuck that.
| They're also all from the same doctor, and legitimately prescribed for several excruciating conditions, yet the looks and attitude I get are the same as yours, suspicion, presumption, condescention, lots of 'double checking' and questions I always refuse to answer. |
My prescriptions are from the same clinic every single time, written on the same yellow and pink and blue headed paper with the same address and the same clinic name on it. Every. Single. Time. Like I explained earlier, it's the PHARMACY who's sending me off to other places to get meds because they don't have what I need in stock....then they turn around and look at me like I'm some junkie.
I understand the need to keep an eye out for people who are filling lots of prescriptions from different places all the time, I really do. However, you and I get the same medications every month from the same physicians and we (try to) fill them at the same pharmacy. At what point are we going to be treated like anyone else who usues Walgreens, like normal people who just happen to have legitimate medical issues that require treatment with narcotics?
Gah. I swear, the next time that stuck up prick of a pharmacist looks down his abnormally large nose at me I'm gonna grab him by his scrawny neck and......
...nah. He's not worth going to jail over. I'd never get into nursing school if I did that.
| It's enough to make me consider mail order. |
Y'know, that's the first thing Dave said when I called him crying after the latest run-in with Asshole The Pharmacist. I think I'm going to seriously consider it.
