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- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Let me ask you, Miss Flibbles, because I'm not a pharmacist. But what in the world could take so long when it comes to filling a prescription? Do you really only count pills? I could understand if it was someone who was taking a lot of pills, and you were looking to cross-chck the prescriptions to make sure you don't fill a deadly prescription, but what about someone like me who is rarely sick, has no allergies, and only gets one prescription at a time? What causes me to wait 20 minutes for a bottle of pills?
I don't mean any disrespect. I'm just curious. I think anyone who doesn't understand the process, would be. - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Certain pharmacies already do this to an extent. They cross-check your known medications for interactions. The big difference with this one is that it reports to the CDC, and it uses a huge national db instead of a smaller, company-wide one.
- Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Since when does the FDA care about public safety??
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Did it ever occur to you that there's a line because, gee, it's a first come, first serve kind of service? Someone told you wrong when he said machines do things instantaneously. I can count pills about three times faster than our machines do, and I get the number right.
You're that ***** who comes to the pharmacy to drop off a prescription and says, "Hey, could you get this done in about five minutes? I'm really sick," aren't you? - badave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Finally.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1dclowd
The biggest thing is what I said at first. If you're going to a store with a high volume, you are going to wait longer. No, it doesn't take twenty minutes for me to grab the right bottle of pills, count them out and put them in a bottle. There is, however, a little more to filling your prescription than that.
Different pharmacies work in different ways. When you come to where I work, you drop it off, we make sure we have your contact and insurance info, and once it's in there, you can leave. After that, a technician like me has to figure out what your doctor wanted you to take and who he is, then enter all the good stuff into the computer. Your label comes off the printer in a queue, and techs fill it. After it's filled, a pharmacist double checks it to make sure the technician decided the right drug information in the first place, the directions are typed correctly, and that it's not going to kill you.
It doesn't sound like much, but when you're filling and selling prescriptions for a couple hundred people every hour or two, it takes a little more time. It really is first come first serve.
I'm not saying breakdowns don't happen. You might be unlucky to get a retard for an employee. It happens, but not really as often as the customers seem to think. People do sometimes make honest mistakes, as hard as it is to believe.
Most of the time, it's something the employees themselves can't control. Your doctor might not be able to spell or write legibly, in which case we call (have to page ER docs) to clarify, which sometimes means waiting on an overworked or pompous doctor to get back to us.
Sometimes there's a problem with your insurance info. We might not have something in stock. Someone might have made a mistake that needs to be fixed.
In a high volume store, twenty minutes is almost a miracle during a rush. - missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Gosh, doesn't look like I was the only one who disagreed, unless I have five separate Digg accounts.
- nhprm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hey Miss Fibbles.. Did it ever occur to you that I was kidding? It is YOUR ATTITUDE, and not mine that is creating a problem. Please, disregard my comment if it is too outlandish for you, but, perhaps you should get out more.
- mywindow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Since when did any government organization care about you? Rest assured there are sinister motives behind this.
- nhprm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I wonder if this will put some people out of a job at the pharmacist assistant level. Serves them right, Pharmacy lines suck!
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