I have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Calling the pharmacy gets a voice menu that usually puts me to sleep
before I get to my option. It starts out with a message about getting
a flu shot and a couple of generic messages about store stuff even
before it gets to menu options. After having to repeat the menu
message both times, I get to the part where they ask if you want to
check and see if a prescription is ready. THAT ONE

It asks if you know your prescription number and if not enter your
phone number. I was just thinking...........Caller ID has been a
feature for many years. (Wiki says 1973 in US) Why not have your
computer check the number I am calling from and just tell me if any
prescriptions are ready or being processed from the number I am
calling from? I am sure there are times when this would not be the
right answer, but it is a pretty good assumption.

Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. (they can leave in the flu shot stuff)

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:27:40 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:

I have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Thanks for sharing.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:27:40 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:


Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. (they can leave in the flu shot stuff)

Those flu shots must be a huge money maker. I noticed several local
pharmacies that have put large signs all over their lawn, as many as 20
signs on one lawn, advertising these flu shots. Then after they make a
huge profit, you hear on tv that they "flu of the year" was not the one
the shots were made for..... Also to be noted is that some people get
ill from the shot.

I tend to wonder what long term side effects these shots havce too.

I got one once, got sick shortly after, and have refused to get them
ever since. It's just another scam money maker, courtesy of another
crooked company. If I'm gonna get the flu, I'll get it, and survive it
just like I have other times in the past. The flu is seldom fatal,
except for people who are already weak and sick. Of course the media
loves to blow up the truth abotu the flu, like they did in recent years
about the "swine flu". Later we found out that this flu never reached
the epidemic that was originally stated. Once again, these companies
inflate the truth to make a buck!!! When are Americans gonna wise up to
all these scare tactics that advertisers use these days?

As for the time to fill a prescription, I fully agree. How frikkin long
can it take to count out 50 pills (in the automatic pill counters they
use these days), put them into a pill bottle and apply a label? If
there was a hundred people waiting for prescriptions, I could understand
the delays, but most of the time I go to the store, there are at most 5
people waiting, and I have to sit there for an hour or more for a bottle
of 25 antibiotics. Worse yet, when it's a tube of ointment that comes
prepackaged, adn all they got to do is type my name on their computer
and stick on the label that was printed.

I've also tried the call in advance method. I call, tell them my doctor
called in a prescription, give my name, and ask them when it will be
ready. They tell me to come after 3pm. I arrive at 5pm, and still have
to wait a half hour for them to call my name while I sit in the waiting
area and am the only customer. Too bad we cant charge them for our time
on an hourly basis.....

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:05:51 -0600, wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:27:40 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:


As for the time to fill a prescription, I fully agree. How frikkin long
can it take to count out 50 pills (in the automatic pill counters they
use these days), put them into a pill bottle and apply a label? If
there was a hundred people waiting for prescriptions, I could understand
the delays, but most of the time I go to the store, there are at most 5
people waiting, and I have to sit there for an hour or more for a bottle
of 25 antibiotics. Worse yet, when it's a tube of ointment that comes
prepackaged, adn all they got to do is type my name on their computer
and stick on the label that was printed.

I've also tried the call in advance method. I call, tell them my doctor
called in a prescription, give my name, and ask them when it will be
ready. They tell me to come after 3pm. I arrive at 5pm, and still have
to wait a half hour for them to call my name while I sit in the waiting
area and am the only customer. Too bad we cant charge them for our time
on an hourly basis.....


You guys have to change pharmacies. I never wait for refills, even if
a new script is needed from the doctor. I use the web page to order
prescriptions, give them two days and they are ready when I get there.
Every time. Never more than one person ahead of me. On many generics,
they offer a three month supply for $10 maximum co-pay no matter what
your plan is.

On the rare times I have to take a script from the hospital, it is
done quickly and little wait.

Walk into a couple of pharmacies and observe if they have lines
waiting. If you find a good one, they will transfer all your scripts
for you..

The CVS across the street advertises 10 minutes.

On 2/2/2012 3:27 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Calling the pharmacy gets a voice menu that usually puts me to sleep
before I get to my option. It starts out with a message about getting
a flu shot and a couple of generic messages about store stuff even
before it gets to menu options. After having to repeat the menu
message both times, I get to the part where they ask if you want to
check and see if a prescription is ready. THAT ONE

It asks if you know your prescription number and if not enter your
phone number. I was just thinking...........Caller ID has been a
feature for many years. (Wiki says 1973 in US) Why not have your
computer check the number I am calling from and just tell me if any
prescriptions are ready or being processed from the number I am
calling from? I am sure there are times when this would not be the
right answer, but it is a pretty good assumption.

Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. (they can leave in the flu shot stuff)
There are several reasons not to reference a caller-id number.
1. they are easily spoofed.

2. some phoned have no caller-id.

3. Phone numbers are reused after a year or so and some of those have
the previous owner's id.

4. when you call from a friends house and they also have a prescription
waiting.

other, I am sure.

Paul

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:14:39 -0800, Paul Drahn
wrote:

On 2/2/2012 3:27 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Calling the pharmacy gets a voice menu that usually puts me to sleep
before I get to my option. It starts out with a message about getting
a flu shot and a couple of generic messages about store stuff even
before it gets to menu options. After having to repeat the menu
message both times, I get to the part where they ask if you want to
check and see if a prescription is ready. THAT ONE

It asks if you know your prescription number and if not enter your
phone number. I was just thinking...........Caller ID has been a
feature for many years. (Wiki says 1973 in US) Why not have your
computer check the number I am calling from and just tell me if any
prescriptions are ready or being processed from the number I am
calling from? I am sure there are times when this would not be the
right answer, but it is a pretty good assumption.

Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. (they can leave in the flu shot stuff)
There are several reasons not to reference a caller-id number.
1. they are easily spoofed.

All the pharmacy requires is for you to enter a phone number to get
the information. There would be no reason to spoof anything.

2. some phoned have no caller-id.

Well then that wouldn't work, would it? Some people don't have
computers, but businesses still have web pages. (and they try to get
you to use them, because no one there wants to have to talk to you)

What about the people that don't have phones?

3. Phone numbers are reused after a year or so and some of those have
the previous owner's id.

Then the chance they would have a prescription ready or being
processed would be pretty low. Right?

You do know the doctor puts your current phone number on the
prescription. Right?

4. when you call from a friends house and they also have a prescription
waiting.

Then you tell them...........I am calling to see if my script is
ready, I will ask about yours too.

Paul

Thanks for playing.

Metspitzer wrote:
have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Hmmm,
My refill is done by pharmacy at the university hospital here.
I just phone in which is answered by a warm body. State my name in full
and DOB, they know all the details about my refills. They either mail it
across town to me or deliver it by taxi. Senior get this free delivery
service. Takes 2 days or couple hours depending on situation.

In article ,
wrote:

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:27:40 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:


Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. (they can leave in the flu shot stuff)

Those flu shots must be a huge money maker. I noticed several local
pharmacies that have put large signs all over their lawn, as many as 20
signs on one lawn, advertising these flu shots. Then after they make a
huge profit, you hear on tv that they "flu of the year" was not the one
the shots were made for..... Also to be noted is that some people get
ill from the shot.

I tend to wonder what long term side effects these shots havce too.

I got one once, got sick shortly after, and have refused to get them
ever since. It's just another scam money maker, courtesy of another
crooked company. If I'm gonna get the flu, I'll get it, and survive it
just like I have other times in the past. The flu is seldom fatal,
except for people who are already weak and sick. Of course the media
loves to blow up the truth abotu the flu, like they did in recent years
about the "swine flu". Later we found out that this flu never reached
the epidemic that was originally stated. Once again, these companies
inflate the truth to make a buck!!! When are Americans gonna wise up to
all these scare tactics that advertisers use these days?

As for the time to fill a prescription, I fully agree. How frikkin long
can it take to count out 50 pills (in the automatic pill counters they
use these days), put them into a pill bottle and apply a label? If
there was a hundred people waiting for prescriptions, I could understand
the delays, but most of the time I go to the store, there are at most 5
people waiting, and I have to sit there for an hour or more for a bottle
of 25 antibiotics. Worse yet, when it's a tube of ointment that comes
prepackaged, adn all they got to do is type my name on their computer
and stick on the label that was printed.

I've also tried the call in advance method. I call, tell them my doctor
called in a prescription, give my name, and ask them when it will be
ready. They tell me to come after 3pm. I arrive at 5pm, and still have
to wait a half hour for them to call my name while I sit in the waiting
area and am the only customer. Too bad we cant charge them for our time
on an hourly basis.....

A friend works at a local 'region wide chain' drug store... she was
saying the pharmacy is under orders not to fill prescriptions quickly.

These standard 'delays' are used as a marketing tool to encourage
customer 'grazing' throughout the rest of store... thus significantly
boosting the overall bottom line.

Since learning this, I refuse to make ancillary purchases when stuck in
that situation.

Erik

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:03:36 -0800, Erik wrote:

A friend works at a local 'region wide chain' drug store... she was
saying the pharmacy is under orders not to fill prescriptions quickly.

These standard 'delays' are used as a marketing tool to encourage
customer 'grazing' throughout the rest of store... thus significantly
boosting the overall bottom line.

Since learning this, I refuse to make ancillary purchases when stuck in
that situation.

Erik

I always suspected this.

The products at my local pharmacy are either medical supplies, junk
food, or trinkets that only women would be interested in. If I'm told
to wait, I ask how long it will be, then I go to the hardware store
which is right next door, and do my 'grazing' over there, or just talk
to the guys who work there if they're not busy.

Another thing I do is drop off my prescription and go take care of my
other errands. Get gas, do some grocery shopping, buy an auto part, get
a few burgers at the fast food rest. and other things. My time is
valuable, and staring at the wall, or reading the really boring health
related magazines at the pharmacy will really get on my nerves.

Of course the best solution is to just call them in advance and at least
that cuts the wait time in half.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:27:40 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:

I have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Calling the pharmacy gets a voice menu that usually puts me to sleep
before I get to my option. It starts out with a message about getting
a flu shot and a couple of generic messages about store stuff even
before it gets to menu options. After having to repeat the menu
message both times, I get to the part where they ask if you want to
check and see if a prescription is ready. THAT ONE

When I write down a phone number, I modify it later with the menu
option I want, or the string of numbers. Sometimes I can push that
key in the middle of the messages, so I dont' have to listen to them.

I renewed a prescription on the phone and ended up with the child
proof cap. The recording didnt' ask about that. . Fortunately, I
save my old bottles etc.

It asks if you know your prescription number and if not enter your
phone number. I was just thinking...........Caller ID has been a
feature for many years. (Wiki says 1973 in US) Why not have your
computer check the number I am calling from and just tell me if any
prescriptions are ready or being processed from the number I am
calling from? I am sure there are times when this would not be the
right answer, but it is a pretty good assumption.

Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. (they can leave in the flu shot stuff)

Doesn't it have to be cold before you need a flu shot? I"m waiting
until it's cold. 7

On 2/3/2012 2:01 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:03:36 -0800, wrote:

A friend works at a local 'region wide chain' drug store... she was
saying the pharmacy is under orders not to fill prescriptions quickly.

These standard 'delays' are used as a marketing tool to encourage
customer 'grazing' throughout the rest of store... thus significantly
boosting the overall bottom line.

Since learning this, I refuse to make ancillary purchases when stuck in
that situation.

Erik

I always suspected this.

The products at my local pharmacy are either medical supplies, junk
food, or trinkets that only women would be interested in. If I'm told
to wait, I ask how long it will be, then I go to the hardware store
which is right next door, and do my 'grazing' over there, or just talk
to the guys who work there if they're not busy.

Another thing I do is drop off my prescription and go take care of my
other errands. Get gas, do some grocery shopping, buy an auto part, get
a few burgers at the fast food rest. and other things. My time is
valuable, and staring at the wall, or reading the really boring health
related magazines at the pharmacy will really get on my nerves.

Of course the best solution is to just call them in advance and at least
that cuts the wait time in half.

I used to get very amused when I took my wash to a laundromat and
watched all the people who sat there slack jawed and drooling as
they waited on their clothing to get clean. I always had a book or
newspaper and if I could run a short errand, I would do so. I've
never been able to sit and stare blankly into space while waiting,
I have to have something to occupy my mind. o_O

TDD

I wonder if it helps to tell them that you're fully aware of their marketing
manipulations. they can get their act in gear and provide better service, or
lose a customer.


Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

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On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:03:36 -0800, Erik wrote:

A friend works at a local 'region wide chain' drug store... she was
saying the pharmacy is under orders not to fill prescriptions quickly.

These standard 'delays' are used as a marketing tool to encourage
customer 'grazing' throughout the rest of store... thus significantly
boosting the overall bottom line.

Since learning this, I refuse to make ancillary purchases when stuck in
that situation.

Erik

I always suspected this.

The products at my local pharmacy are either medical supplies, junk
food, or trinkets that only women would be interested in. If I'm told
to wait, I ask how long it will be, then I go to the hardware store
which is right next door, and do my 'grazing' over there, or just talk
to the guys who work there if they're not busy.

Another thing I do is drop off my prescription and go take care of my
other errands. Get gas, do some grocery shopping, buy an auto part, get
a few burgers at the fast food rest. and other things. My time is
valuable, and staring at the wall, or reading the really boring health
related magazines at the pharmacy will really get on my nerves.

Of course the best solution is to just call them in advance and at least
that cuts the wait time in half.

On Feb 2, 10:14*pm, Paul Drahn wrote:
On 2/2/2012 3:27 PM, Metspitzer wrote:



I have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. *I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Calling the pharmacy gets a voice menu that usually puts me to sleep
before I get to my option. *It starts out with a message about getting
a flu shot and a couple of generic messages about store stuff even
before it gets to menu options. *After having to repeat the menu
message both times, I get to the part where they ask if you want to
check and see if a prescription is ready. *THAT ONE

It asks if you know your prescription number and if not enter your
phone number. *I was just thinking...........Caller ID has been a
feature for many years. (Wiki says 1973 in US) *Why not have your
computer check the number I am calling from and just tell me if any
prescriptions are ready or being processed from the number I am
calling from? *I am sure there are times when this would not be the
right answer, but it is a pretty good assumption.

Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. *(they can leave in the flu shot stuff)

There are several reasons not to reference a caller-id number.
1. they are easily spoofed.

2. some phoned have no caller-id.

3. Phone numbers are reused after a year or so and some of those have
the previous owner's id.

4. when you call from a friends house and they also have a prescription
waiting.

other, I am sure.

Paul- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -


Along those lines, I would think it could also be a
violation of federal privacy laws. It's illegal to give out
medical information to just anyone.

The real problem here would seem to be the
pharmacy. I get my presecriptions filled at Costco.
Low cost and I drop off the prescription before
starting to shop. It's always done by the time I'm
done shopping, 20 mins or so.

wrote:

As for the time to fill a prescription, I fully agree. How frikkin
long can it take to count out 50 pills (in the automatic pill
counters they use these days), put them into a pill bottle and apply
a label? If there was a hundred people waiting for prescriptions, I
could understand the delays, but most of the time I go to the store,
there are at most 5 people waiting, and I have to sit there for an
hour or more for a bottle of 25 antibiotics. Worse yet, when it's a
tube of ointment that comes prepackaged, adn all they got to do is
type my name on their computer and stick on the label that was
printed.


Then there's the story about the chap cleaning out the lower east-side
apartment of his recently deceased grandfather. During the job he ran across
a shoe repair stub from 1934! The little shoe repair business still existed
around the corner, so the grandson thought he might have some fun.

He took the ticket to the shop and handed it to the cobbler sitting at a
workbench. The cobbler glanced at the ticket, handed it back, and said, as
he returned to his work, "They'll be ready Wednesday."

From the pharmacy's perspective, there's no sense putting the pills in a
bottle, preparing a label, and so forth, until they have more assurance
than an anonymous 'phone call that the "patient" is serious about actually
WANTING the drug. The probability of actually making the sale goes up
significantly when the patient appears at the counter ready to pick up the
prescription. Still not 100%, but higher.

This is especially true for compounded medicines - those that have to be
custom-mixed for a specific prescription and also for high-priced pills,
i.e., Viagra.

The Daring Dufas wrote:

I used to get very amused when I took my wash to a laundromat and
watched all the people who sat there slack jawed and drooling as
they waited on their clothing to get clean. I always had a book or
newspaper and if I could run a short errand, I would do so. I've
never been able to sit and stare blankly into space while waiting,
I have to have something to occupy my mind. o_O


You don't idle well. Neither do I.

Some idle their entire life except for brief intervals of urgent things like
putting out a shirt fire.

Let me guess. By calling 911 and demanding to know whose fault was it?
"Somebody better do something about it"

I knew some folks who would have something go wrong. They would spend hours
arguing whose fault was it, and no time at all fixing whatever it was that
broke.

I'm remembering the woman who was on the news a few months ago. Had about a
dozen kids living in one room, and telling the world someone better do
something about it.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

"HeyBub" wrote in message
m...

You don't idle well. Neither do I.

Some idle their entire life except for brief intervals of urgent things like
putting out a shirt fire.

On 2/2/2012 6:27 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Calling the pharmacy gets a voice menu that usually puts me to sleep
before I get to my option. It starts out with a message about getting
a flu shot and a couple of generic messages about store stuff even
before it gets to menu options. After having to repeat the menu
message both times, I get to the part where they ask if you want to
check and see if a prescription is ready. THAT ONE

It asks if you know your prescription number and if not enter your
phone number. I was just thinking...........Caller ID has been a
feature for many years. (Wiki says 1973 in US) Why not have your
computer check the number I am calling from and just tell me if any
prescriptions are ready or being processed from the number I am
calling from? I am sure there are times when this would not be the
right answer, but it is a pretty good assumption.

Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. (they can leave in the flu shot stuff)

I could have ordered all my meds on line in the time it took to browse
this thread but I'm getting screwed by a poor plan with Medco and
Medicare deductible.

A visit to Walmart taught me that I could skip Medco and Medicare and go
there and save over $150 per year. For that, I'll wait in line 4 times
a year.

Pays to shop around.

Also while computer ordering is extremely easy, it took me 45 minutes on
hold to speak to Medco about my bill.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:54:53 -0700, Tony Hwang
wrote:



Metspitzer wrote:
have a prescription I have been waiting 2 hours to get filled. I am
in no rush for it, but checked at 1.5 hrs and at 2 hrs and it is not
ready.

Hmmm,
My refill is done by pharmacy at the university hospital here.
I just phone in which is answered by a warm body. State my name in full
and DOB, they know all the details about my refills. They either mail it
across town to me or deliver it by taxi. Senior get this free delivery
service. Takes 2 days or couple hours depending on situation.

That is a good deal.

On Feb 2, 6:27*pm, Metspitzer wrote:

Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions.

The purpose of "auto-attendants" is efficiency, but not yours.
"Customers" are always interrupting more important matters.

(they can leave in the flu shot stuff)

Sure. It's perfectly reasonable to hold a prospective profit
dispenser captive and waste their time with an advertising assault.
Maybe they'll hang up and go bother someone else.
-----

- gpsman

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:06:30 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Let me guess. By calling 911 and demanding to know whose fault was it?
"Somebody better do something about it"

I knew some folks who would have something go wrong. They would spend hours
arguing whose fault was it, and no time at all fixing whatever it was that
broke.

I'm remembering the woman who was on the news a few months ago. Had about a
dozen kids living in one room, and telling the world someone better do
something about it.

You mean this one? The one where the mother of 15 kids
says.......................... Video at 2:20
"Somebody needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay."

http://nation.foxnews.com/homelessne...ll-my-children

On 2/3/2012 10:13 AM, Metspitzer wrote:
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:06:30 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Let me guess. By calling 911 and demanding to know whose fault was it?
"Somebody better do something about it"

I knew some folks who would have something go wrong. They would spend hours
arguing whose fault was it, and no time at all fixing whatever it was that
broke.

I'm remembering the woman who was on the news a few months ago. Had about a
dozen kids living in one room, and telling the world someone better do
something about it.

You mean this one? The one where the mother of 15 kids
says.......................... Video at 2:20
"Somebody needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay."

http://nation.foxnews.com/homelessne...ll-my-children

Holy crap, sterilize that bitch before she pops out a few more kids.

On Feb 2, 9:05*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:27:40 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:



Their method may sell more flu shots, but it's sure not an efficient
way to handle prescriptions. *(they can leave in the flu shot stuff)

Those flu shots must be a huge money maker. *I noticed several local
pharmacies that have put large signs all over their lawn, as many as 20
signs on one lawn, advertising these flu shots. *Then after they make a
huge profit, you hear on tv that they "flu of the year" was not the one
the shots were made for..... *Also to be noted is that some people get
ill from the shot.

I tend to wonder what long term side effects these shots havce too.

I got one once, got sick shortly after, and have refused to get them
ever since. *It's just another scam money maker, courtesy of another
crooked company. *If I'm gonna get the flu, I'll get it, and survive it
just like I have other times in the past. *The flu is seldom fatal,
except for people who are already weak and sick. *Of course the media
loves to blow up the truth abotu the flu, like they did in recent years
about the "swine flu". *Later we found out that this flu never reached
the epidemic that was originally stated. *Once again, these companies
inflate the truth to make a buck!!! *When are Americans gonna wise up to
all these scare tactics that advertisers use these days?

As for the time to fill a prescription, I fully agree. *How frikkin long
can it take to count out 50 pills (in the automatic pill counters they
use these days), put them into a pill bottle and apply a label? *If
there was a hundred people waiting for prescriptions, I could understand
the delays, but most of the time I go to the store, there are at most 5
people waiting, and I have to sit there for an hour or more for a bottle
of 25 antibiotics. *Worse yet, when it's a tube of ointment that comes
prepackaged, adn all they got to do is type my name on their computer
and stick on the label that was printed.

I've also tried the call in advance method. I call, tell them my doctor
called in a prescription, give my name, and ask them when it will be
ready. *They tell me to come after 3pm. *I arrive at 5pm, and still have
to wait a half hour for them to call my name while I sit in the waiting
area and am the only customer. *Too bad we cant charge them for our time
on an hourly basis.....

Why don't you go to college and obtain a degree in
Pharmacy and get licensed -- you will then realize
there is quite a bit more to it than counting pills in
a machine and putting a sticker on the bottle they
are sold to the customers in...

~~ Evan

On Feb 3, 7:21*am, The Daring Dufas
wrote:
On 2/3/2012 2:01 AM, wrote:









On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:03:36 -0800, *wrote:

A friend works at a local 'region wide chain' drug store... she was
saying the pharmacy is under orders not to fill prescriptions quickly.

These standard 'delays' are used as a marketing tool to encourage
customer 'grazing' throughout the rest of store... thus significantly
boosting the overall bottom line.

Since learning this, I refuse to make ancillary purchases when stuck in
that situation.

Erik

I always suspected this.

The products at my local pharmacy are either medical supplies, junk
food, or trinkets that only women would be interested in. *If I'm told
to wait, I ask how long it will be, then I go to the hardware store
which is right next door, and do my 'grazing' over there, or just talk
to the guys who work there if they're not busy.

Another thing I do is drop off my prescription and go take care of my
other errands. *Get gas, do some grocery shopping, buy an auto part, get
a few burgers at the fast food rest. and other things. *My time is
valuable, and staring at the wall, or reading the really boring health
related magazines at the pharmacy will really get on my nerves.

Of course the best solution is to just call them in advance and at least
that cuts the wait time in half.

I used to get very amused when I took my wash to a laundromat and
watched all the people who sat there slack jawed and drooling as
they waited on their clothing to get clean. I always had a book or
newspaper and if I could run a short errand, I would do so. I've
never been able to sit and stare blankly into space while waiting,
I have to have something to occupy my mind. o_O

TDD

Yes... That inability to patiently wait one's turn for
something is what will eventually do America in...
I mean imagine not being able to gorge yourself on
whatever items you want in a supermarket and had
to wait in lines hours and hours long so you could
get a 50 pound sack of cornmeal or flour...

Technology was meant to make life easier, not
train the people using it to unreasonably expect
that every aspect of their lives will eventually be
able to happen upon demand at the speed of light...

~~ Evan

On Feb 3, 11:19*am, Tony Miklos wrote:
On 2/3/2012 10:13 AM, Metspitzer wrote:









On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:06:30 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
*wrote:

Let me guess. By calling 911 and demanding to know whose fault was it?
"Somebody better do something about it"

I knew some folks who would have something go wrong. They would spend hours
arguing whose fault was it, and no time at all fixing whatever it was that
broke.

I'm remembering the woman who was on the news a few months ago. Had about a
dozen kids living in one room, and telling the world someone better do
something about it.

You mean this one? *The one where the mother of 15 kids
says.......................... Video at 2:20
"Somebody needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay."

http://nation.foxnews.com/homelessne...ess-lady-15-ki...

Holy crap, sterilize that bitch before she pops out a few more kids.

If the law allows someone to sterilize her, then how many
people's opinion that the same should be done to you would
be required before you were comfortable with allowing the
government the authority to perform that procedure on anyone
against their will ?

~~ Evan

That's the one. No one ever told her that sex leads to pregnancy, to kids?
And that she's got to get a job and earn some money? Or make her sperm donor
take some actions to help care for them all.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

"Metspitzer" wrote in message
...

You mean this one? The one where the mother of 15 kids
says.......................... Video at 2:20
"Somebody needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay."

http://nation.foxnews.com/homelessne...ll-my-children

Send the sperm donor a bill for expenses?

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

"Tony Miklos" wrote in message
...


http://nation.foxnews.com/homelessne...ll-my-children

Holy crap, sterilize that bitch before she pops out a few more kids.

On Feb 3, 4:43*pm, "Stormin Mormon" the top posting nitwit wrote:

I'm OK with "no more money for more
kids".

I think it goes w/o saying that every Christian is willing if not
anxious to punish children for the sins of their parents.

That's how Jesus would undoubtedly do it, because the bible tells us
so.
-----

- gpsman

Is it just me, or are dumped kids more common, now days? Yeah, I know, it's
Bush's fault.

Sounds like the walking womb that dropped those girls off wasn't being very
responsible.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

"Metspitzer" wrote in message
...
I am not against kids. I am against irresponsible parents. This
happened this week.

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/youn...n-20120130-APX

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:48:15 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

That's the one. No one ever told her that sex leads to pregnancy, to kids?
And that she's got to get a job and earn some money? Or make her sperm donor
take some actions to help care for them all.

A while back, my brother was volunteering on his church's "hot line" (usually
suicide calls or alcohol/drugs, etc.) when a woman in her late 20s called
hysterical because she was hemorrhaging. After getting an ambulance and the
whole ER thing, he finds out it's the first time she's had a period. Up until
then, she'd been constantly pregnant since her early teens.

Can't let the idiot parents shift responsibility to the government.

Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

"aemeijers" wrote in message
...

Can't starve the kid because the parents are idiots.

--
aem sends...

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:11:44 -0500, Frank
wrote:

Pays to shop around.

That's for sure. At one of the odd-lot/close-out stores around here
they had a Kodak digital camera, refurbished for 50 or 75 dollars, I
forget which.

Looked online, found same model refurbished for as much as 200
dollars, and new for as little as 100.

Evan wrote:

Why don't you go to college and obtain a degree in
Pharmacy and get licensed -- you will then realize
there is quite a bit more to it than counting pills in
a machine and putting a sticker on the bottle they
are sold to the customers in...


And the minimum starting salary for a degreed pharmicist is in the
neighborhood of a hundred grand.

The Daring Dufas wrote in news:jgqkq6$hif$1
@dont-email.me:

snip

I often work on computer systems in pharmacies and the company I do
contract labor for requires me to take a HIPAA regulations examine
before going on the service call because there are things I may see
containing patient information while working on the computer systems.

TDD

rant
Before I retired from my medicacl research job, I was subjected to the
need for yearly refresher exams, the need to rewrite the HIPAA statement
for our subjects on a yearly basis, and the same for a host of other
things (radioactive "license", hazardous chemicals, and I forgot what
else). The mad dash for documentation that could be used against you if
you were found out to have done a misdeed, the ENORMOUS waste of time and
the frightening dumbing down of the brain in doing so, was what drove me
into retirement. I'm totally for responsible behavior, and I am a
(expletive deleted) liberal, but there are limits.
/rant

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

"HeyBub" wrote in news:u_
:

Evan wrote:

Why don't you go to college and obtain a degree in
Pharmacy and get licensed -- you will then realize
there is quite a bit more to it than counting pills in
a machine and putting a sticker on the bottle they
are sold to the customers in...


And the minimum starting salary for a degreed pharmicist is in the
neighborhood of a hundred grand.

After having spent the money for the education and licensing, that is a
just reward. As Evan said, there is a bit more to it than being an
extension of a pill-dispensing machine.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:31:33 -0800 (PST), Evan
wrote:

On Feb 3, 7:21*am, The Daring Dufas
wrote:
On 2/3/2012 2:01 AM, wrote:









On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:03:36 -0800, *wrote:

A friend works at a local 'region wide chain' drug store... she was
saying the pharmacy is under orders not to fill prescriptions quickly.

These standard 'delays' are used as a marketing tool to encourage
customer 'grazing' throughout the rest of store... thus significantly
boosting the overall bottom line.

Since learning this, I refuse to make ancillary purchases when stuck in
that situation.

Erik

I always suspected this.

The products at my local pharmacy are either medical supplies, junk
food, or trinkets that only women would be interested in. *If I'm told
to wait, I ask how long it will be, then I go to the hardware store
which is right next door, and do my 'grazing' over there, or just talk
to the guys who work there if they're not busy.

Another thing I do is drop off my prescription and go take care of my
other errands. *Get gas, do some grocery shopping, buy an auto part, get
a few burgers at the fast food rest. and other things. *My time is
valuable, and staring at the wall, or reading the really boring health
related magazines at the pharmacy will really get on my nerves.

Of course the best solution is to just call them in advance and at least
that cuts the wait time in half.

I used to get very amused when I took my wash to a laundromat and
watched all the people who sat there slack jawed and drooling as
they waited on their clothing to get clean. I always had a book or
newspaper and if I could run a short errand, I would do so. I've
never been able to sit and stare blankly into space while waiting,
I have to have something to occupy my mind. o_O

TDD

Yes... That inability to patiently wait one's turn for
something is what will eventually do America in...
I mean imagine not being able to gorge yourself on
whatever items you want in a supermarket and had
to wait in lines hours and hours long so you could
get a 50 pound sack of cornmeal or flour...

Technology was meant to make life easier, not
train the people using it to unreasonably expect
that every aspect of their lives will eventually be
able to happen upon demand at the speed of light...

~~ Evan
Do you work for the DOT?

On 07 Feb 2012 14:02:58 GMT, Han wrote:

"HeyBub" wrote in news:u_
:

Evan wrote:

Why don't you go to college and obtain a degree in
Pharmacy and get licensed -- you will then realize
there is quite a bit more to it than counting pills in
a machine and putting a sticker on the bottle they
are sold to the customers in...


And the minimum starting salary for a degreed pharmicist is in the
neighborhood of a hundred grand.

After having spent the money for the education and licensing, that is a
just reward. As Evan said, there is a bit more to it than being an
extension of a pill-dispensing machine.

It is a 5 year course now, but some are going to 6 years.

Ed Pawlowski wrote in
:

On 07 Feb 2012 14:02:58 GMT, Han wrote:

"HeyBub" wrote in news:u_
:

Evan wrote:

Why don't you go to college and obtain a degree in
Pharmacy and get licensed -- you will then realize
there is quite a bit more to it than counting pills in
a machine and putting a sticker on the bottle they
are sold to the customers in...


And the minimum starting salary for a degreed pharmicist is in the
neighborhood of a hundred grand.

After having spent the money for the education and licensing, that is a
just reward. As Evan said, there is a bit more to it than being an
extension of a pill-dispensing machine.

It is a 5 year course now, but some are going to 6 years.

The question really is whether we need a fullfledged pharmacist in every
corner pharmacy, and I don't know the answer ...

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

In article ,
Ed Pawlowski wrote:


It is a 5 year course now, but some are going to 6 years.

And unless you want to work 3rd shift CVS in a bad neighborhood, you
almost have to have a PharmD.

--
People thought cybersex was a safe alternative,
until patients started presenting with sexually
acquired carpal tunnel syndrome.-Howard Berkowitz

In article ,
Han wrote:


The question really is whether we need a fullfledged pharmacist in every
corner pharmacy, and I don't know the answer ...

Yes, legally. You also actually need someone with the training to do
the patient teaching, make sure there are no interactions with the
medicines you know about, etc.

--
People thought cybersex was a safe alternative,
until patients started presenting with sexually
acquired carpal tunnel syndrome.-Howard Berkowitz

Kurt Ullman wrote in
m:

In article ,
Han wrote:


The question really is whether we need a fullfledged pharmacist in
every corner pharmacy, and I don't know the answer ...

Yes, legally. You also actually need someone with the training to do
the patient teaching, make sure there are no interactions with the
medicines you know about, etc.

Indeed those are the current regulations/laws. But following the lead of
some, perhaps less regulation/law would work as well. GRIN

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid