Why I don't just "Fill all [their] refills".

[Food Lady]

I'm usually pretty patient waiting in line, but I'd be irritated at that guy who wanted to get checked out at the pharm. Two reasons: A) With all the doctor appts, work, & driving across town to the pharmacy (employee discount--no pharm at my store), I am left with less time to get everything done I need to. I'll wait, but don't want an unnecessary wait.

B) I'm there for pain meds. Usually by the time I'm gettin' them filled, I'm in a lot of pain and need them. They're narcs; they run out fast & refills have to be approved every time. I need my doses on time.

[Anthelle]

I like going to the same GP. They have all the meds I am taking in their computer and they have to enter in the new medication when writing a script. They can look at what I'm on easily and as a safety feature the computer will pop up a warning if there are incompatibilities. As long as they don't just rely on the computer and check with me to make sure there's nothing extra or different (which they do) it's a pretty good system.

[Gryphon]

I hate it when patients do that to us! Luckily, the other tech in my store and I have trained our regulars quite well, so it's the rare douchenozzle who just wants to "make us work" that asks for "everything".

My boss, K, is always super on top of keeping patients' prescriptions regulated and communicating with all doctors involved. Because we're only a 1,000 rx per week store, we have that option. But even then, some slip through when we have floater pharmacists. And when patients get prescriptions at multiple pharmacies it makes things crazy hard to regulate!

[Pharm Girl]

Some people are ridiculous, they expect their docs and RPhs to keep track of their meds. People you have 1 patient to keep track of they have many. Also wait times...SC-'is my prescription ready yet?' me-"no, not yet sir" SC-'I dropped it off an HOUR ago!!' Then I check with the techs and they dropped it off 5 minutes ago and were told it would be half an hour.

[KatherineB]

^

In that case I might suggest that perhaps they are also having problems concentrating and perhaps it might be worth seeing a specialist for possible neurological complaints...

[Gryphon]

Pharm Girl, don't you know that five minutes is an hour in SC time?

The busier you are, the faster these idiots expect you to have their medication ready. But when it finally is ready, they disappear for four hours and come back three minutes before closing!

[MelodiousBubbles]

This is why I am SO happy our filling system actually has what are called "hard halts" for drug-drug interactions. ANY drug they have in their profile with us is run through a filter of interactions with all other drugs the doctor might prescribe. It also does the same for any potential allergies from meds in the same therapeutic class that may also provide difficulties (an allergy to amoxicillin will prompt a hard halt for penicillin, ect.).

It thankfully saves everyone a lot of time, and has saved more than a few patients from taking meds they're allergic to because they neglected to inform their current doctor that they're allergic to it!

[Primer]

Quoth Panacea

... people more and more see so many specialists and there is NO coordination of care through a primary care provider . . .

I at least try to get everything reported back to my PCP.

Quoth houdini

...it's long names, and extra stuff to remember, and it's only my health so it's not important, who cares anyway 'cos if it all goes wrong it's the doctor's fault! responsibility to fix.

fixed that for ya

Quoth MelodiousBubbles

This is why I am SO happy our filling system actually has what are called "hard halts" for drug-drug interactions. ANY drug they have in their profile with us is run through a filter of interactions with all other drugs the doctor might prescribe. It also does the same for any potential allergies from meds in the same therapeutic class that may also provide difficulties (an allergy to amoxicillin will prompt a hard halt for penicillin, ect.).

Can I transfer all my scripts to your pharmacy?? I once had a doctor try to give me Celebrex when I am highly allergic to sulfa. Another one did give me Augmentin when I am also allergic to amoxicillin. Boy was that fun! I'm glad I've always refused penicillin a second time. Had it once as a teen with no ill effect, but half my family is allergic to it.

The only ABs that I'm not yet allergic to, that I know of, are Vancomycin and Zithromax.

I now carry a list of all my meds AND allergies together on a bright pink sheet of paper in my wallet. I give a copy to every doctor at every visit. I also wear a Medic Alert necklace with my allergies listed on it.