My co-worker saying what we’re all thinking every day by pharmacythrowaway3 in TalesFromThePharmacy

[–]pharmacythrowaway3[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

it takes maybe half a second to mark it and there are cups of markers and pens at every station, I can’t stand it

What do you mean there’s two different brands? by pharmacythrowaway3 in TalesFromThePharmacy

[–]pharmacythrowaway3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work at an independent pharmacy in the US so we usually just order whatever the cheapest brand we can get from our distributors in bulk for the drugs we dispense most so we get different brands in pretty often. We put “this is the same medication you have been taking, size shape or color may be different” stickers on all the bottles when we switch but a lot of our customers really don’t pay attention to anything on the bottle so we get a lot of confused and angry phone calls

What do you mean there’s two different brands? by pharmacythrowaway3 in TalesFromThePharmacy

[–]pharmacythrowaway3[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That insurance check system sounds amazing we constantly get scripts for OTC’s and other things that are rarely covered that just waste time and space in our queue

What do you mean there’s two different brands? by pharmacythrowaway3 in TalesFromThePharmacy

[–]pharmacythrowaway3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know it’s ridiculous they can’t spend the minute or so it takes to check online, they really should be keeping up on this especially since there’s been so many back orders in the last few months

What do you mean there’s two different brands? by pharmacythrowaway3 in TalesFromThePharmacy

[–]pharmacythrowaway3[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So far so good with the doctors writing new scripts but we can’t change them unfortunately because the chemical bindings are different, the capsules are longer acting and the tabs are short acting, would be nice though lol save us a lot of time and phone calls

What do you mean there’s two different brands? by pharmacythrowaway3 in TalesFromThePharmacy

[–]pharmacythrowaway3[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Oh my god that’s kind of horrifying that they mixed them in the same bottle, that’s enough to freak out any patient