Pharmacies are so much fun...

[bookishfreak]

ARPhx: She was just here looking for you. She wanted to apologize.

That has NEVER happened before. A customer has never come back to apologize to one of us after being rude. I hope Mrs. B is okay though.

Wow.... what was that like??

[CiggyStoreClerk]

Is it possible that because Mrs. B is diabetic (I'm assuming, from the insulin) that she's just having crazy mood swings? I have low blood sugar, and that right there can cause me to have a bitch-fest if I havn't eaten anything in a while.

[SG15Z]

am i the only one who places my prescription order one day, and picks it up the next?

Nearly every customer I've handled at the Kroger Rx* wants their scripts ASAP! It's very common, then some of them never come back to pick them up....

Okay....

I am on intake, shocking I know, and a lady is coming up in a long line to my window.

SC: I need this ready in five minutes.
Me: Ma'am, our standard wait time is a 45 minutes and with how busy we are today that may be pushed back to an hour.
SC: So?
Me: So your script will be ready in 45 minutes.
SC: Whatever! *stomps off*
Me: *inputs script and calls forward the lady behind her* How can I help you?
SC: I need this in 15 minutes.
Me: *same spiel as before*
SC: So?
Me: *sighes*

Yeah we get that too, all the time! >.< Course our "usual" wait time is 45 minutes to an hour. But I've seen days were it went to more than 2 hours. We have a very busy Pharmacy.

Wow.... what was that like??

Well I've had someone apologize once. It was this guy. It was....awkward....and awesome too!


*I've been helping out as a clerk over at our Rx the past few weeks. It's not fun, I never want to do it again!

[reirei]

I'm guessing that she needs the date to narrow the field of potential fathers.

That's exactly the conclusion I came to, lol.

Wow.... what was that like??

I was really weird. I am glad I was not there for it though. That would have been to wierd to exprirence.

These people would spontaneously combust if they had to hear the wait times I do for my meds at the county clinic. 3-5 hours.

I typically go somewhere else entirely and come back, or return some other day to get my stuff.

I was in heaven when I took a script to a normal pharmacy awhile ago (it was one I could pay for) and the guy told me I had a 15 minute wait. I nearly didn't believe what he was telling me.

These people need to calm down.

I completely agree. All of the pharmacy's customers need to calm down.

Nearly every customer I've handled at the Kroger Rx* wants their scripts ASAP! It's very common, then some of them never come back to pick them up....



Yeah we get that too, all the time! >.< Course our "usual" wait time is 45 minutes to an hour. But I've seen days were it went to more than 2 hours. We have a very busy Pharmacy.



Well I've had someone apologize once. It was this guy. It was....awkward....and awesome too!


*I've been helping out as a clerk over at our Rx the past few weeks. It's not fun, I never want to do it again!

It's never for life threatening meds people lose thier minds over either. I was on intake yesterday and got yelled at for five minutes because I would not refill this woman's prescription for LAMISIL in less than twenty minutes. (we were pretty slow for once)

[pacman]

Wait, isn't Lamisil a foot fungus remover? How in sweet hell could that be life-threatening not to get it now, yesterday, I should already have it and treated my feet with it??? I'm just wondering...

[bankworking]

At one point I had a prescription that I was used to paying $9 for suddenly increase to $20. It didn't even occur to me to blame the pharmacy. I simply asked them to double check that it was the correct prescription/price, then I paid the $20 and later I contacted... oh, my INSURANCE company to find out what had happened.


I also call in prescriptions ahead of time.

I know there is a lack of 'common' sense in the world, but still these things don't seem all that hard to figure out...

[Geek King]

(Random story: Recently I was unpacking some boxes from my grandparents' estate - just miscellaneous house stuff that my aunt and mom thought the grandchildren might like as keepsakes - and I found an old promotional item from a drug company. My Grampa was a psychiatrist. It was a ruler with a big advertisement for Thorazine - the newest drug for difficult patients - now in handy suppository form! I took it to my psychopharmacology class and much amusement was had by all...)

One of the gamers in my group is a Pharmacist. One of the promo items he was given was what we refer to as "Captain Enema"--an anthropormorphic enema bottle in a cape and tights. It is assumed that villany is low in his city.

[calulu]

When my husband and I tried our hand at running a general store in the mountains we were rehabbing the building first. We pulled some very old shelving from the wall and discovered a bottle of patent medicine from the turn of the century called "Save The Baby" It was still in the cardboard container and looking at the ingredients it contained mostly whiskey, menthol and grease. I guess that would make a baby quiet down during croup or a cold.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

unfortunately antipsycotics are the expensive ones... $200 plus a bottle. sucks when you have two scripts...

That they are. Seroquel at Durr Pharmacy (where Mom and LB get their meds from) would be over $260.00 for a months' supply without insurance. And IIRC, Neurotin (which is an anti-seizure drug) is over $300.00 a month now. I'll take a look next time I go with Mom to pick up my brother's meds and check the prices . . . if I'm brave enough, that is.

His copay is $3.00 per script currently (he has Medicaid) so that helps a bunch.

[Pagan]

I just got back from a two-week vacation (went to the Gathering in Scotland!) and have been back at work for three days....and I already want to smack people again!

SC: I need this ready in five minutes.
Me: Ma'am, our standard wait time is a 45 minutes and with how busy we are today that may be pushed back to an hour.
SC: So?
Me: So your script will be ready in 45 minutes.
SC: Whatever! *stomps off*
Me: *inputs script and calls forward the lady behind her* How can I help you?
SC: I need this in 15 minutes.
Me: *same spiel as before*
SC: So?
Me: *sighes*

I'm convinced that because they don't see a line at drop-off or pick-up that they think we're doing nothing but waiting for them with baited breath.

It was slow pretty much the whole evening last night....until about 8:15. We went from 2 scripts in fill to 25 in 5 minutes.

am i the only one who places my prescription order one day, and picks it up the next?

One of the few, the proud, the patient....and we love those of you that do that!

I'd be difficult and violent if someone wanted to shove a pill up my ass.

Oh great, now I've got the giggles.

[ta2ooed1]

One of the few, the proud, the patient....and we love those of you that do that!

I do that!

Puppy drugs for $11/mo ftw


Oh great, now I've got the giggles.

Don't do that, it will feel even worse once the pill is in

[EricKei]

That's why I love the [little family-run] discount Rx near me -- I drop off a script, go 2 doors away to get a sno-ball, and come back in half an hour. Simple. They're almost always busy, but they get it done, so no complaints here.

They have nearly a dozen registers running at a time when it gets REALLY busy, and about that number of Pharmacists and assistants. It's always seemed to me that getting the OK to fill the stuff is what takes time >_>

[greensinestro]

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SC: Well, I haven't had my period since January...(way too much info!)

SC: When do you think I got pregnant?
Me: Are you seriously asking me that? (Don't you have a crystal ball that will tell you this?)

You know, after that, I'm surprised she didn't ask you what guy might have knocked her up. It always seems like strangers share more info over the phone than they would with their own families.

[depechemodefan]

SC: Could you look up when I picked up my birth control last? *gives name*
ME: *looks up* You got a three months supply in Febuary.
SC: Are you sure?
Me: Uhh... yes.
SC: Well, I haven't had my period since January...
Me: Then I sugest you go see your OBGYN.
SC: I haven't taken the pill since December...
Me:.... Okay....
SC: When do you think I got pregnant?

OMG! They are breeding!!!!
Also, what month is it she called ? June? Shouldn't she have noticed the baby bump by now?

[McGoddess09]

I wish I only paid $15 for my monthly meds (BC pills)! For those, on one kind, I paid $50 a month. With the kind I'm currently on, I am paying $35 a month. $15 would definitely be a nice reprieve.