Does anyone do this ?

Muahahaha

Muahahaha wrote: »

Ah right, so it just gets less powerful. Here was me thinking the chemicals morph into something else over time and then youre dead

Whilst on the subject of pharmacies does anyone know what the pharmacists be doing when it takes 10 or 15 minutes to prepare your script? Surely all their stock is in boxes and blister packs behind the counter so why the long wait?

I doubt yours is the only prescription they're doing!!
Plus they've to check interactions and stuff and send you back to the doc if needs be
And check history if they have it
Hey mrs jones you usually get 200mg a week but this week it's 2000mg, story

Gravelly

Muahahaha wrote: »

Ah right, so it just gets less powerful. Here was me thinking the chemicals morph into something else over time and then youre dead

Whilst on the subject of pharmacies does anyone know what the pharmacists be doing when it takes 10 or 15 minutes to prepare your script? Surely all their stock is in boxes and blister packs behind the counter so why the long wait?

1. Taking their time to justify the charge
   
2. Laughing at you
   
3. W**king into your medicine

The Hound Gone Wild

Muahahaha wrote: »

Ah right, so it just gets less powerful. Here was me thinking the chemicals morph into something else over time and then youre dead

Whilst on the subject of pharmacies does anyone know what the pharmacists be doing when it takes 10 or 15 minutes to prepare your script? Surely all their stock is in boxes and blister packs behind the counter so why the long wait?

1: You're not the only person waiting on a prescription. On top of faxes and patients that ring in.
2: Prescriptions aren't all Pharmacists do. Patients constantly come in looking for advice.
3: All medication on your script has to be put through a computer system. If you've never been to that pharmacy before they have to set up a new file as nothing is centralised.
4: If you have a medical card your number has to be checked against HSE records so the Pharmacy gets paid
5: Medication needs to be checked to ensure the right boxes have been taken off shelves, a quick look inside to count everything and a quick date check.
6: Then checked to make sure the printed labels on the box is correct.
7: Checked for interactions and dosages, if there are interactions or the doctor hasn't prescribed the right dose, need to touch base with them.
8: Checked against the script to make sure everything is as your doctor wanted it.
9: Then run through 5-8 again all while you're complaining it takes too long.
10: If you have a prescription for a child they'll usually look up literature to make sure everything is ok for the age and weight.

Everything that leaves a dispensary has a Pharmacists signature on it. They'd rather you wait 10 minutes than get something wrong and potentially kill you.

TomSweeney

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Not a hope would I return them to a pharmacy.costs an arm and a leg for medicine in this rip off state,unless you’re a lifelong doler with the hand out constantly looking for handy money.2.50 euro will buy you anything if you are a lifer.for any idiot who chooses to go out and work the sky’s the limit on what the pharmacist will charge you at the till with no medical card.
If you send back medicine that’s in date do you honestly think it will be destroyed.will it fcuk.sold on again and the pharmacist living it up at home supping champagne and caviar on toast selling the same thing twice for big money.id rather Hide them in a wheelie bin and have the rats in the dump eat them.
Here’s another one for ye.how many of ye know a lay about useless article who goes to the doctor regularly with a bad chest despite smoking 40 cigarettes a day.said layabout has a medical card and doctors prescribe an inhaler and antibiotics.each of them inhalers average 80 euro which is sent back to the taxpayers to cover while the bum pays 2:50 and continues to smoke.joke of a system

Lau2976

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Lau2976 wrote: »

How could it kill someone if it’s in a sealed box or sleeve,with the name of the medicine,the strength,the amount and the use by date. If the product is still in date,unused and unopened it is guaranteed sold on again to the next person with a script for this medicine to double profits.
Any pharmacist denying this is telling porkys and laughing all the way to the bank

Very little medication is returned in that condition, most is returned half used and/or expired. It can kill people because the pharmacist can’t confirm what is it the container. You really think someone who dispenses medication is gonna take the chance for a few extra euro?

Ever hear of the Tylenol murders? That’s why medication has a seal on it and it would be taken very very seriously if a pharmacy was found doing what your saying.

If your the paranoid by it empty the container and return it all in a zip lock bag. It’s all going in the same bin anyway.