Dang, I spend a few days with my Mom, and I have a ton of stories, mostly about her!
So, she took her prescriptions to a different pharmacy from the one that she believed the tech needed to take a laxative. http://customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php?t=1671
One med that she gets comes in a prepackaged bottle straight from the manufacturer. Mom actually politely asked the tech not to open the bottle, count the pills, then dump them into another bottle, and slap the script label on that. Since the script is for the same number of pills that come in the bottle from the manufacturer, she asked that the label just be put on the original bottle instead--saving time, labor and materials.
The tech could not seem to understand why my Mom would want to do it that way.
First, she's who she is.
Second, she's a retired nurse, and concerned (paranoid) about cross contamination.
Third, it really does make sense.
The fluid meds that she gets come in plastic bottles in boxes. She asked that the label be put on the box instead of the bottle itself, as, "The bottles get wet, the ink smears, the label disintegrates, making it difficult to refer back to the doctor's instructions, and the prescription number for refills."
Again, the tech couldn't seem to understand why.
I'm kind of glad I won't be there tomorrow when she picks up her "mislabeled" drugs.
So, she took her prescriptions to a different pharmacy from the one that she believed the tech needed to take a laxative. http://customerssuck.com/board/showthread.php?t=1671
One med that she gets comes in a prepackaged bottle straight from the manufacturer. Mom actually politely asked the tech not to open the bottle, count the pills, then dump them into another bottle, and slap the script label on that. Since the script is for the same number of pills that come in the bottle from the manufacturer, she asked that the label just be put on the original bottle instead--saving time, labor and materials.
The tech could not seem to understand why my Mom would want to do it that way.
First, she's who she is.
Second, she's a retired nurse, and concerned (paranoid) about cross contamination.
Third, it really does make sense.
The fluid meds that she gets come in plastic bottles in boxes. She asked that the label be put on the box instead of the bottle itself, as, "The bottles get wet, the ink smears, the label disintegrates, making it difficult to refer back to the doctor's instructions, and the prescription number for refills."
Again, the tech couldn't seem to understand why.
I'm kind of glad I won't be there tomorrow when she picks up her "mislabeled" drugs.
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