Walgreens policy is that someone can verify your address and pick up your prescription. Wether they are 15 or 85 it doesn't matter. Cough syrup and other cold medicines cannot legally be purchased by minors. So yes, someone can pick up your prescription but not cough syrup. Don't like it? Write your senator to see if your opinion will change the law.
Also, when she drew her hand back and said "hmmm" after you said you didn't have insurance, she was most likely thinking how she could save you money. Walgreens has a RX savings club for people with little or no insurance. But, since you were probably being a jerk to her, she decided not to waste her time on something that was clearly not going to be appreciated. I know I wouldn't waste time for someone who wasn't appreciative. Since I'm sure you don't know this either, retail pharmacies make more money off from a RX that is not billed to insurance than one that is. Reimbursement rates are crappy and insurances never pay the total amount, leaving us with a cost to basically eat. You sliding your VISA card has a very good reimbursement rate. If you weren't so preoccupied with being so offended all the time, maybe you would notice.
In general, if someone comes up to you with a crappy attitude to begin with, are you going to make every effort to be nice to them? Not a chance. We may work in retail, but we are not door mats. We do nothing more than McDonald's workers? Hmm. I don't think many people with Doctoral degrees work at McDonald's. I sort of feel sorry for you because you are so ignorant. Who do you think checks for interactions between medications? Most doctors have no idea. They don't go to school for that. WE do. So if we are nothing more than McDonald's workers, essentially you are saying we are not needed. Go ahead, take all those meds that your doctor wrote together. You might not be breathing well enough to write another ignorant complaint.
Do you not own a phone? You can always call the pharmacy before you drive in to pick it up.
I've noticed the first post here was posted 6-8-11. If you couldn't fill the RX until 6-9, the RX probably was not entered into the computer. Hence the reason why the technician couldn't find it.
...And whoever Heath2011 is, I would watch who you are calling an idiot. Especially with all those grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation mistakes. Any woman of potential childbearing age is asked that question if a medication is potentially teratogenic. It is not meant to be offensive, it is meant for safety purposes and for the intention of educating the pubic. A 55 year old woman can still get pregnant. Read this article. ----- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1278059/Italian-woman-shocks-doctors-falling-pregnant-aged-54--NATURALLY.html ------
I am a pharmacist and I will agree with this one. Check your medication before you take any. Mistakes can happen, we are still human. In this case, you should also urge your doctor to type out prescriptions or call them in to the pharmacy. More than likely this was the case of really bad penmanship on the doctor's behalf. Sometimes we literally turn our head sideways trying to read their chicken-scratching. But, we do our best.
