Pharmacy Pointers

This post is dedicated to my pharmacy buddies. I first have to say that I really do love my job. I only work like 4 days a month so I don't have much to complain about, but there are always those little irritating things that happen on the job. Pharmacists and Techs will understand these pointers and laugh, but others might get offended if they have ever committed these blunders at their pharmacy.

Pharmacy Pointers
1. Staring and glaring at me behind the counter will not make me work faster and get your RX out sooner.
2. When calling in a refill I don't need you to tell me what the drug is for, the full name, and what it looks like, the RX number is sufficient, in fact we have an automation line that you can call instead.
3. Also, really you don't know what medication you are taking? That's something you should know and not refer to your meds as "it's the little white pill."
4. I do not control you insurance. When we process a RX through your insurance and it comes to whatever price, that's the price and I can't change it. Take it up with you insurance if you have a problem. I'm not going to reprocess it and see if the price will change.
5. Remember we are a pharmacy and not a doctor's office.
6. Calling 5 times in an hour to see if your RX has been filled yet is a little excessive. If you tell us to call you when it's done, we will call you back, there is no need for excessive phone calls.
7. The IN window is where you drop off your RX the OUT window is where you pick up your meds. I'm not so sure what's so difficult about that, maybe people just don't take the time to read the signs. Who knows?

Well I hope you had a good laugh and feel free to add to the pointers in the comments. I just picked the ones the irritate me the most. I didn't even get to talk about hospital pharmacy and we all know that that list is long. : )