1. Be sure to stare at the pharmacist wile your prescriptions are being filled. Staring at the pharmacist makes him or her work faster.
2. Never remember the name of the medications you want refilled. By calling it "the little white pill," you are sure to receive the correct medication.
3. When calling in eight prescriptions or more, always arrive at the pharmacy to pick them up within 10 minutes. It is OK to hurry pharmacists; if they make a mistake, it won't kill you or anything.
4. Feel free to ask the pharmacy staff for the exact price of your prescription before it is filled. The staff should know every co-pay for every insurance plan.
5. Wait until Sunday evening (of the day you start) to ask for your birth control to be filled when you don't have any refills left. The pharmacist can get in touch with your doctor or just fill it anyway.
6. Call the pharmacy and ask them to call your doctor for a prescription, and when asked which doctor to call and what medication you need reply "how should I know?" to both questions.
7. When you are given a prescription by your doctor, be sure to wait several months to fill it, and only do so when you are in a hurry to leave for vacation.
8. If your prescription is for something in a box or tube and you are in a hurry, be sure to yell loudly to just slap a label on it... it doesn't matter if it isn't the same thing that is on the prescription, all creams and ointments work the same.
9. When coming to a new pharmacy be sure to leave your prescription card at home and insist that the pharmacy can use your medical/dental/vision card to process your prescriptions. Yelling loudly to just put it through for what you normally pay is very helpful too.
12. Demand of the pharmacy staff to know why this medication isn't covered, we have seen your plan outline booklet, of course we know what is and is not covered
6. Call the pharmacy and ask them to call your doctor for a prescription, and when asked which doctor to call and what medication you need reply "how should I know?" to both questions.
7. When you are given a prescription by your doctor, be sure to wait several months to fill it, and only do so when you are in a hurry to leave for vacation.
8. If your prescription is for something in a box or tube and you are in a hurry, be sure to yell loudly to just slap a label on it... it doesn't matter if it isn't the same thing that is on the prescription, all creams and ointments work the same.
9. When coming to a new pharmacy be sure to leave your prescription card at home and insist that the pharmacy can use your medical/dental/vision card to process your prescriptions. Yelling loudly to just put it through for what you normally pay is very helpful too.
10. Make sure that you drop of 3 pages of prescriptions and when the pharmacist tells you an hour show up in line 10 minutes later and when the pharmacist goes to hand out someone elses prescription make sure you loudly say.....shouldn't i be next I dropped off my prescriptions before her.
11. Expect your mixtures to be ready today even though they have four ingredients in them
12. Demand of the pharmacy staff to know why this medication isn't covered, we have seen your plan outline booklet, of course we know what is and is not covered
13. Ask for the brand of a medication because it works better but then when you have to pay more for it, take the generic instead
14. Don't fill the antibiotics for your kids cause they're too expensive, they didn't need it anyways.
15. Ask the pharmacist if there's more eggs/bread/milk in the back (ps I turn around when they ask for it, look at the drug shelf and say "nope")
16. Ask us if the OTC you're holding interferes with the RX drug you filled at another pharmacy
17. Bring in a vial labelled from a competitor and say "I just got this at Rexall/Pharmasave/Zellers/Costco etc and they didn't tell my about it. Can you tell me all about it and if I can take it with my other medications?"
18. Bring in all of your expired medications that are from our competitor's stores for us to dispose of, even though you have never had a prescription filled at our pharmacy.
19. If you are a nurse, make sure you let us know because you are better at our job than we are...
I'm sure i will add some more.....please leave your own points in the comments!!
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