/r/TalesFromThePharmacy

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Pharmacy work requires its own special laws and regulations and with it comes so many wonderful problems.

How many times do you find yourself saying any of these: - Your insurance sets the price - That is your medical card, not your prescription card - Your prescription is expired ... Yes even though you still have refills

If so this is the place to be!

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    This is a place where people in the world of pharmacy can tell their story, vent about what occurred, and read some humor about others.


    Rules:

    1) NO violations of HIPAA - anyone doing this will be banned without warning

    2) Are you a patient or someone else who wants to voice their complaint about your local pharmacy? This is not the correct place for it. Please direct those posts to /r/TalesFromTheCustomer.

    3) If you have a specific question then those are more suited for /r/Pharmacy than here. If posting there then get straight to the question without too much unneeded information. Any posts containing either of these will be removed.

    4) Images are okay but an accompanying story must appear in the comments

    5) Anything read here should not be taken as any type of medical advice. If you are searching for specific medical advice then Reddit is not the place to look for it. Please direct yourself to a medical professional such as your local pharmacist, doctor, or provider.

    6) Questions regarding Pharmacy Technicians can also be found in /r/PharmacyTechnician

    7) If it isn't a tale then it doesn't belong here and will be removed


    Our Theme Song Courtesy of /u/KetrinaKetrina

    (To the tune of "Just Keep Swimming" in "Finding Nemo")

    Hey mister grumpy pharmacist

    When pharmacy life gets you down you know what you got to do ?

    Just keep filling, just keep filling, filling, filling, filling

    What do we do we? Fill fill fill.

    I LOVE FILLING WHEN YOU WANT TO FILLLLLLLLL YOU KEEP ON FILLING !


    Also if you like this sub you might like:

    Tales From The Customer

    Tales From Retail

    Tales From Nurses

    Tales From Designers

    Tales From the Kitchen

    Tales from Medicine

    Tales from the Military

    Tales from Housekeeping

    Tales from the Museum

    Tales from Beauty

    Tales from the Studio

    Or check out r/Pharmacy to understand what we go through to even work in a Pharmacy

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    [Weekly thread] Your end of the week rants and raves!

    Do you have a rant or rave that you want to get off your chest but didn't feel like submitting your own thread? That's totally fine! Go ahead and post it here. That way we can all rant and rave about it with you!

    0 Comments
    2025/01/05
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Pharmacist Phridays!

    Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

    0 Comments
    2025/01/03
    13:00 UTC

    682

    Did you close early?????

    Sitting in the pharmacy at lunch, because it's a Target in they don't let us use their break rooms. Woman walks up to the gate and asks us if we closed early and we told her we did not. She asked if perhaps we had closed at 1:25 and therefore would be open early at 1:55 and once again we told her we did not close early. Then she insisted that we must have closed early because when she got there her watch said 1:29 and if we don't close until 1:30 we should have been able to help her.

    Okay. Here's how things work. We have several clocks in the pharmacy and we open and close based on the time of which one is most convenient or appropriate to our needs. You will watch might say 129 and ours might say 131. Aside from that, don't come at 1:29. We close at 1:30 so that we can help the customer that stupidly showed up at 1:25 and is having a problem. If you show up at 1:29, and even if there aren't any problems, it's going to be 135 before we get that gate closed and people aren't going to get their full breaks thanks to you.

    26 Comments
    2025/01/02
    05:05 UTC

    123

    Got a prescription today to prevent junk email

    Clonazepam ODT 0.5mg, sig reads "Take one tablet on the tongue and allow to dissolve four times daily as needed for spams."

    6 Comments
    2025/01/01
    16:37 UTC

    397

    happy deductible season💀😭

    i’m about to leave retail tbh i can’t do it anymore lmao

    19 Comments
    2025/01/01
    01:18 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Technician Tuesday

    Did a technician you work with do something completely dumb, extremely funny, or just simply amazing? Go ahead and post it here and let the rest of us join in and read what they did!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/31
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly thread] Your end of the week rants and raves!

    Do you have a rant or rave that you want to get off your chest but didn't feel like submitting your own thread? That's totally fine! Go ahead and post it here. That way we can all rant and rave about it with you!

    1 Comment
    2024/12/29
    13:00 UTC

    1,708

    US people visiting different countries....

    PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY understand that different countries have different prescribing laws.

    I'm sure you can get a bottle of 100 paracetamol without any problems in the US, thats wonderful for you, but this IS THE UK. I can only LEGALLY sell you TWO paracetamol products at one time. This has been the law since about 2003(? I forget the exact year, but it's at least 10+ years old). My hands are tied. Ranting and raving to me about how terrible this is isn't going to help you.

    If you need more, you need to go to another shop. Everyone else does with zero difficulties.

    (Apologies to all the sensible Americans, it's just you happen to have a large demographic that apparently doesn't understand)

    300 Comments
    2024/12/27
    18:04 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Pharmacist Phridays!

    Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/27
    13:00 UTC

    110

    I Think They Liked It :)

    I'm not a pharmacist, nor do I work in the industry. But I very much appreciate the hard work and many hoops my pharmacist and his team jump through on a daily basis for their patients.

    Given that, I wanted to show appreciation that all could enjoy, and settled on the two largest boxes of Gourmet Chocolate that Godiva sells. The looks on their faces were priceless, and as I handed over the gifts, the sounds of, "I get the raspberry nougats" and "save me some caramels" brought a smile to my face as I quietly slipped away.

    Have a wonderful holiday.

    6 Comments
    2024/12/25
    03:04 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Technician Tuesday

    Did a technician you work with do something completely dumb, extremely funny, or just simply amazing? Go ahead and post it here and let the rest of us join in and read what they did!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/24
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly thread] Your end of the week rants and raves!

    Do you have a rant or rave that you want to get off your chest but didn't feel like submitting your own thread? That's totally fine! Go ahead and post it here. That way we can all rant and rave about it with you!

    1 Comment
    2024/12/22
    13:00 UTC

    128

    pre-assassination copay vs post-assassination copay

    this was billed to optumRX/BCBS but it’s still funny

    20 Comments
    2024/12/21
    07:56 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Pharmacist Phridays!

    Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/20
    13:00 UTC

    2

    [Weekly Thread] Technician Tuesday

    Did a technician you work with do something completely dumb, extremely funny, or just simply amazing? Go ahead and post it here and let the rest of us join in and read what they did!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/17
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly thread] Your end of the week rants and raves!

    Do you have a rant or rave that you want to get off your chest but didn't feel like submitting your own thread? That's totally fine! Go ahead and post it here. That way we can all rant and rave about it with you!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/15
    13:00 UTC

    1,199

    “all you people do is put stickers on boxes”

    (we couldn’t get it in any other pack size either due to ordering restrictions smh)

    44 Comments
    2024/12/15
    11:00 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Pharmacist Phridays!

    Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/13
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Technician Tuesday

    Did a technician you work with do something completely dumb, extremely funny, or just simply amazing? Go ahead and post it here and let the rest of us join in and read what they did!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/10
    13:00 UTC

    702

    But will my insurance cover it?

    20 Comments
    2024/12/08
    17:29 UTC

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    [Weekly thread] Your end of the week rants and raves!

    Do you have a rant or rave that you want to get off your chest but didn't feel like submitting your own thread? That's totally fine! Go ahead and post it here. That way we can all rant and rave about it with you!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/08
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Pharmacist Phridays!

    Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/06
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Technician Tuesday

    Did a technician you work with do something completely dumb, extremely funny, or just simply amazing? Go ahead and post it here and let the rest of us join in and read what they did!

    0 Comments
    2024/12/03
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly thread] Your end of the week rants and raves!

    Do you have a rant or rave that you want to get off your chest but didn't feel like submitting your own thread? That's totally fine! Go ahead and post it here. That way we can all rant and rave about it with you!

    1 Comment
    2024/12/01
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Pharmacist Phridays!

    Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

    0 Comments
    2024/11/29
    13:00 UTC

    74

    What Does it Mean When the Pharmacist…?

    When the Pharmacist circles the amount of pills dispensed? I’ve only ever seen it done on my narcotics. Is this some type of way legally to say that you’ve double counted or triple counted and verified how many pills you dispensed? As in a way to keep yourself from any wrongdoing or legal trouble? Just wanted to know. I’ve only ever seen this done at my small retail pharmacy and not the big retail ones. Thanks!

    38 Comments
    2024/11/26
    21:19 UTC

    2

    [Weekly Thread] Technician Tuesday

    Did a technician you work with do something completely dumb, extremely funny, or just simply amazing? Go ahead and post it here and let the rest of us join in and read what they did!

    0 Comments
    2024/11/26
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly thread] Your end of the week rants and raves!

    Do you have a rant or rave that you want to get off your chest but didn't feel like submitting your own thread? That's totally fine! Go ahead and post it here. That way we can all rant and rave about it with you!

    2 Comments
    2024/11/24
    13:00 UTC

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    [Weekly Thread] Pharmacist Phridays!

    Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

    0 Comments
    2024/11/22
    13:00 UTC

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