Dear Patients...

someone came into my pharmacy today, holding his monthly welfare card. he then told me he wanted vitamins and antibacterial soap.
he must have thought that he died and went to heaven when he qualified for welfare. all the free soap and vitamins you can hold!
when i explained that its not for free, he got so mad, he walked out. he probably sat at home, doing nothing all day, moping about not getting soap.
he was so excited about the prospects of washing and i ruined his day.

One other thing........please don't stand there picking your nose while I'm trying to talk with you. Save your booger hunt for the parking lot or your car...not in my store. If you need a tissue ask for one, don't wipe a canoe load of snot under my counter.

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Here is another one. If the pharmacy down the street will not call the doctor to get refills for your meds, DO NOT call our pharmacy and tell us we have to call your doctor to get a refill for your meds, then ask us to call it into the other pharmacy for you.

can i just say "i love you"?!!

this is the first thing i read in the morning and the last thing i read before i go to bed. i am 'addicted'. all the shit we deal with on a daily basis wrapped up in sarcasm and sprinkled with humor. love it!

Heres one to add that happened on Monday:
Do not take your bowel prep (in this case visicol) before coming to the pharmacy to pick up your other meds.

*Prints*

*Laminates*

*Attaches to front counter and places a copy in each patient's bag*

This is great!!!!

Also, dont have your doctor fax in all 23 of your prescriptions, so that I fill them and then when you come in and say that you only want the 3 prescriptions that medical assistance won't cover and I can "just put the other's back". "that is not too hard to do is it"...Nope that is not hard at all, it was the filling and checking that I already did that was the tough part. It is like telling you to do your job and at the end of the day your boss comes in and says "well, it was nice that you worked so hard all day, lets just throw everything you did in the shredder, but here is a big Thanks to boost your self confidence"

Or the patient that comes in and drops of their prescription, 2 weeks later we call to see if they will come and pick it up and they say oh ya, today, I will be in, I just forgot...2 weeks later, you return it to stock...2 days later they come in tell you they want it, they will be in the store, and then leave again not picking it up...Then a week later you get a call from the competitor down the street asking you to reverse it so they can run it thru...And all this time I was hoping his blood pressure would go thru the roof and he would stroke out, but alas he made it and is now down the street driving them mad!

"Please control your children. The pharmacy is not a playground. For every shelf that your child destroys, the higher your copay becomes and the longer the wait is. If your children are so out of control that I need to yell at them (because I'm a nice guy like that), please don't get offended and feel you are a bad parent. I know its hard to be 16 and have two children. Obviously you didn't learn after the first one, so I wont hold it against you for being a complete idiot."

i have to agree with this one.. fact.. all!!

I have to tell this story to someone who understands...
We have this extremely prominent attorney in town who basically thinks the world must stop for him and everyone in his family. I get the wonderful joy of filling his psychotic celexa and xanax induced nieces prescriptions. Psychotic just doesnt seem to be the appropriate word though. About two weeks ago, she gets a Prevident prescription filled. Absolutely must have brand. She drives the 23 miles back to her MANSION. And calls us about 45 mins later. Somehow from the drop off counter to the register one of the techs changed it to generic. She is screaming and cussing at the pharmacist for at least 20 mins or so. She gets in her car, has her NURSE drive her all the way back to our store so that we can get it handled. She arrives at the store apologizes for cussing at the pharmacist and then has us give her FORTY dollars in CASH for gas money. We ring up the prevident, she realizes we forgot to ring up her Celexa that she forgot she had. Completely evil. Begins cussing us again. Leaves the store. Comes back a week later and cusses at us again because her doctor didnt write her RX for Xopenex inhaler correctly. Of course, that's my fault. And because I made the mistake of telling her my name when she was yelling at me, she has made a "formal complaint" with the district office and the DM has now called our store manager and said that we have to do everything we possibly can to keep her happy because everytime she picks up a RX she also blows like 200 dollars on front store merchandise. The icing on the cake...one of the cashiers busted her for shoplifting today. Little things that make me smile.

This is easily the best blog I've ever read. I have only been a licensed pharmacist since July, but I agree with every single thing you've written. I was happy to find this after a long day of work, when a lady threw 3 pints of lactulose at my head when her copay was more than $2. Keep writing... great stuff.

If only the patients could read, then they'd understand. Most of them can't or won't even do that.

I haven't checked up your site in a while (I blame it on school), so I'm reading some of your older posts now... and it's hilarious as always!

"We are as much 'wanna be doctors' as you are 'wanna be pharmacists'. Anyone can work on a car, but a mechanic is going to get the job done right the first time." Nicely put. :-)

That was awesome! Preach it!

This one with the blue-heads kills me:

I need to call in a refill.

OK. Number?

123456.

Thank you. What time do you want to pick that . .

I HAVE ANOTHER ONE!

OK. The number?

401-555-1234.

That's our phone number. Will you please die?

lol! i like fast food pharmacy too

Oh my. I'm not a pharmacist. HOWEVER, I own a company that manages medical practices. I busted out laughing because this site just SMACKS of the crap we have to take when we field patients' phone calls about their medical bills, i.e., "What do you mean Medicare doesn't cover that!"

YOU PHARMACIST POOR BABIES.STAND BEHIND COUNTER COUNT OUT PILLS AND PUT IN BOTTLE.I KNOW MORE ABOUT INTERACTION THEN PHARMACIST KNOW.I ASK DOCTORS QUESTIONS I READ THE NET.SO BE HAPPY YOU ARE A HIGH PAID CASHIER