IL pharmacists can no longer say NO to BC!!!!

NO ONE goes from cashier to pharmacist. Pharmacist use Pharmacy Technicians to do the technical part of the job. EVERY pharmacy can only operate with a registered phamacist on duty.

In the post about the 19 year old pharmacist reading the info to you, she is not a pharmacist, and should have referred your questions to the pharmacist on duty (assuming the regulations are similiar in Canada as they are here).

 

Maggie - In Virginia, I can honor scripts from any US state or territory. If you keep having bullshit problems, you let me know! I'll be your mail order pharmacy!

 

i think maggie cleared up what i said pretty well. the person behind the counter might not have the official title of 'pharmacist' and i mean that as in, not all of the people behind the counter are full-fleged pharmacists. so yes, it might be required for a pharmacist to have a degree in that area, but it's not required for all the people behind the counter. when i said "fill" the prescriptions, i dont know what is technically involved with the process, but all i know is that i can hand my slip or whatever to my pharmacist buddy behind the counter, he goes back to the shelves, does his thing, and then give me the pills... he doesn't consult another pharmacist, and this is the buddy without the degree. but again, i don't know whats involved in the process, so that's what i mean by "fill" a prescription, from my perspective as a client. that's what i meant by "fill," and pharmacists/degrees, just to clear up any confusion.. i don't want to spread misinformation!

 

And IL is forward with some stuff... but so backwards in other areas it is criminal.

 

My aunt had been doing it since she was in her twenties, which was during the 60's. It wasn't like they pulled her over from cashier. And like someone else said, I don't really know the process of filling perscriptions, so anyone behind that counter is a pharmacist to me =P I'm not sure if there were other's working in the pharmacy with her, must have been or at least should have been...

 

quote: And IL is forward with some stuff... but so backwards in other areas it is criminal.

My favorite moment was when the governor commuted all of the death sentences due to possible mistakes on death row, my hero.

It can't be that hard being a "pharmacist." I'm going to apply at sav-on, I can read doctors prescriptions, I can count pills, I can look up info about medicines in a book if someone asks

 

There is no book that can define the clinical significance of drug interactions and multiple drug combinations with regard to any one patients history and medical conditions. That takes professional judgement.

Every prescription that is filled in this country is verified by a registered pharmacist. A technician may actually fill the order, but a pharmacist is the ONLY one who can verify and dispense the medication.

 

Hey Photo, thank you for the offer. (I {big puffy heart} Photo!}) Saw my Neuro yesterday and he did agree to let me use the mail order my CIII meds. But he only would write a month with 5 refills, I hope that works with the mail order. I don't blame him, I wouldn't give someone three months of the shit I have to take!

Anyway, it IS hard being a pharmacist,there is more to it, a LOT more to it, than counting pills.

That was a different governer (Ryan.) He is under indictment now, on quite a few corruption charges, seems he was in on a scheme to sell commercial Driver's Licences, and a whole bunch of people were killed by these Operators who had NO ability to drive a big rig, including EIGHT children from one family who burned to death in their minivan, from a mistake from one of these people who bought a Licence caused, due to not only not knowing how to drive, but not even knowing how to read English.

Rod Blagoiovitch (sp) is our Gov now. He's a good governer, as well as a Democrat. (Ryan was a Republican. IL has has THREE or four Republican Gov indicted and a couple of them go on to jail. Gotta love IL politics.)

 

Sounds like not much has changed in Illinois politics....there seems to be a certain charm to its corruption though.,,except that wierd big rig thing.


I would love it if someone could nail our governor with something...Taft, the asshole great grandson of a boring president.

 

Maggie, I have dealt with mail order personally. Probably the same one, Medco Health, in Texas. I am not sure if they will even fill a thrity day supply, but it took 3 weeks for me to get all three of my scripts. Each one arrived separately, from a different state. One of them was 17 pills short!

I encourage you to complain, vehemently, to both your insurance company, and to the employer that has forced such shitty benefits on you, in the name of "cost containment".

 

I LOVE THE HOT ROD.

he lives a block from my uncles house in chicago, its so funny... he runs in short shorts, and its crazy.. its not everyday you get to see your governer daily! (my uncle does, i dont)

still, coolness.

 

yean really maggie...btw what part of IL I am in central

 

Western Burbs of Chicago.

Grant, it isn''t Medco in Texas, it is Qualicare or AdvanceRX or something like that. (All these have like four names.) I have used them for my other meds, for several years, and I always got them properly, they all came from the same location but the "processing" of the first written script always takes about 10 days. The doc gave me enough coverage to last, I hope.

 

I AM complaining vehemently, but the call center is in INDIA and they really don't care at all. My dh won't say anything, as his company fired about 30,000 world wide before they started chopping at our benefits and everyone is too scared to say anything. I would, but that's me.

 

Medco's main HQ is in Texas, but they have 3 or 4 facilities. I had to mail everything to Texas, but my CII's came from Nevada, another Rx from Ohio (I think) and one from Texas. I hated it.

 

I'll PM you, Grant.