Most prescriptions aren’t on paper anymore though. I have heard that Japan (a very tech savvy country) is actually worse than us with checks and faxes and certain other low/old tech solutions. Not sure if that is true but either way I don’t think the US is unique in this stuff.
Yeah, occasionally, we’ll request a paper one if we think we’ll need to fill it at a random pharmacy, like when we’re on vacation or it’s for something that’s likely out of stock.
Most US pharmacies seem to have problems transferring a script between locations, even within the same company.
Hmm, I recently had to deal with switching pharmacies (in the US) mid-prescription and I didn’t really have any trouble. Went from CVS to a family owned shop.
It’s not all the time… But, for example, last week, my wife had one sent to a CVS, apparently 10 minutes after they had closed. They didn’t fill the script, but they did bill the insurance and were unable to transfer the script to a location that was open later.
About six months ago, I tried to transfer my script from our local target to another target nearby that actually had the item in stock. They said they’d transfer it. I drove over. They didn’t have it. They tried to call the originating target CVS but they wouldn’t pick up the phone.
Between the two, we decided to look into a mom and pop shop (of which there are precious few around us) the one close enough to make sense told us that our doctor was too far away. They were about a 20 minute drive back to there we used to live and we liked them. They were a #$%^ Johns Hopkins practice.
Walgreens f’d me over once because they couldn’t scan my license. I had just renewed it for realID so my plastic license had expired. I had the paper DMV your license is valid and will come in the mail, use this paper in conjunction with your existing license until your new license arrives. I was trying to pick up a non-narcotic muscle relaxer because I fucked up my back.
I really really really hate pharmacies anymore. I should probably just order my shit online.
Most prescriptions aren’t on paper anymore though. I have heard that Japan (a very tech savvy country) is actually worse than us with checks and faxes and certain other low/old tech solutions. Not sure if that is true but either way I don’t think the US is unique in this stuff.
Yeah, occasionally, we’ll request a paper one if we think we’ll need to fill it at a random pharmacy, like when we’re on vacation or it’s for something that’s likely out of stock.
Most US pharmacies seem to have problems transferring a script between locations, even within the same company.
Hmm, I recently had to deal with switching pharmacies (in the US) mid-prescription and I didn’t really have any trouble. Went from CVS to a family owned shop.
It’s not all the time… But, for example, last week, my wife had one sent to a CVS, apparently 10 minutes after they had closed. They didn’t fill the script, but they did bill the insurance and were unable to transfer the script to a location that was open later.
About six months ago, I tried to transfer my script from our local target to another target nearby that actually had the item in stock. They said they’d transfer it. I drove over. They didn’t have it. They tried to call the originating target CVS but they wouldn’t pick up the phone.
Between the two, we decided to look into a mom and pop shop (of which there are precious few around us) the one close enough to make sense told us that our doctor was too far away. They were about a 20 minute drive back to there we used to live and we liked them. They were a #$%^ Johns Hopkins practice.
Walgreens f’d me over once because they couldn’t scan my license. I had just renewed it for realID so my plastic license had expired. I had the paper DMV your license is valid and will come in the mail, use this paper in conjunction with your existing license until your new license arrives. I was trying to pick up a non-narcotic muscle relaxer because I fucked up my back.
I really really really hate pharmacies anymore. I should probably just order my shit online.