TO. COUNT. OR. NOT. TO COUNT.....THAT's the QUE... - Page 3

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

@sidsmom wrote:
@Plaid Pants2 wrote:
Okay, so the pharmacy gave her ONE PILL too many.

What would you have the pharmacy do, take that one pill back?

Or, perhaps short her one pill on her next refill, in order to even things out?

Was she supposed to mail the one pill to the president of the pharmacy, demanding that they what, charge her for that one pill?

What exactly would you have her do?
1. Call the pharmacy
2. Talk directly to the pharmacist on duty, not the cashiers answering
3. They should alter the next prescription less 1 tablet

Prescriptions are like School Snow Days.
Miss a day, you have to make it up.
Like I mentioned upthread, multiply 1 pill by 300 people...and someone's job might be on the line. If the pharmacist scr*ws up the quantity, what else are they lax on? Once, ok; twice, hummm; 3 times, I would change my pharmacy.

Morally, ethically, Karma...whatever you call it...it's the right thing to do. If I have to keep explaining, that speaks volumes, as well.

And if the pharmacist on duty had said, "Don't worry about it", then what?

And what if the doseage is two pills, twice a day?

You want a patient to be short one month, just to make up for getting one pill extra?

Wow.

You really want to play with someone's health like that?

occasionalrain · ‎03-10-2010

An enquiring mind would want to know if an off count was common and, if so, how common. I have an enquiring mind so I would count the bags in the other boxes.

As to pills, I would notify the pharmacy of both too many or too few. They need to be made aware of their mistakes so they are corrected. If they can't accurately count pills, can they be trusted to accurately fill a prescription?