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primitive's drug store made a mistake
« on: September 01, 2017, 05:53:33 PM »
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left-of-center2012 (6,135 posts)     Tue Aug 29, 2017, 07:28 PM

My pharmacy made a mistake

I picked up some paperwork recently from Walgreens last week and, me being me, I didn’t look at it until today.

Under allergies, it listed (along with others) ‘morphine derivatives’ and I’m thinking “What’s that?”.

I’m not aware of having ever taken ‘morphine’ and don’t ever recall an allergy to it.

So I called my pharmacy and found out it’s pain meds like Tylenol 3, codeine, hydrocodone, etc.

I told the pharmacist I’m 71 and taken those off-and-on throughout my life and never had any allergy to them.

She said someone had just made a mistake and she’d take it off my file.

I told her I’m not happy with my pharmacy making mistakes and she said “We’re just human and we make mistakes.”

They’ve filled pain pills for me a few times, so I don’t know how/why this happened, other than someone pushed a wrong button, whatever.

But I don’t like my pharmacy making mistakes.
 
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tymorial (1,038 posts)      Tue Aug 29, 2017, 07:41 PM

1. Mistakes happen in medicine

There is no such thing as perfection. There are layers of safeguards to prevent mistake but they will happen. You wouldn't have been denied medication regardless. If your MD sent an Rx to the pharmacy for an opioid then the pharmacy would call to confirm and the issue would have been rectified. You simply beat them to the punch.

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Warpy (95,797 posts)      Tue Aug 29, 2017, 07:48 PM

2. Mistakes happen. Anything run by human beings is going to have a few mistakes

While we all wish health care workers at all levels were perfect at all times, this is generally not the case. That's one reason so many things are being automated, on the theory that machines won't make mistakes. This is all well and good, but that assumes the people feeding the data into the machines are also perfect.

You caught the error. Had you not caught it, your pharmacist would have called the prescribing physician the next time you needed an opiate and it would have been caught then. Things are double and triple checked at all times because the people doing this stuff are human beings.

The health care system is the best way we have of getting well when we get sick. Is it perfect? No, because human beings are not perfect.

<<<thinks pharmacies ought to keep track of drugs they dispense to primitives, especially narcotics and pain-relievers, so they don't get overused and abused.
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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2017, 06:27:09 PM »
l-o-c made a basic mistake in telling his/her :bouncy: (S)He should have blamed the mistake on the repeal of OhBummer!Care. The appropriate sympathy would then have flowed from fellow DU-members.
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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2017, 06:31:02 PM »
Woe to the pharmacy tech who stands in the way between a primitive and its mind and mood altering drugs.


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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2017, 06:48:21 PM »
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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2017, 11:01:13 PM »
Is it just me or is every single DU member on some sort of medication for one malady or another?  Christ, it's like leftist ideology rots you from inside out.

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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2017, 11:55:42 PM »
Is it just me or is every single DU member on some sort of medication for one malady or another?  Christ, it's like leftist ideology rots you from inside out.
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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2017, 02:16:00 AM »
Is it just me or is every single DU member on some sort of medication for one malady or another?  Christ, it's like leftist ideology rots you from inside out.

One of the better examples of this is the long-gone bitter old Vermontese "cali" primitive.

Because she's a bitch and doesn't get along with people, she lives in a very isolated part of northernmost Vermont, miles and miles away from other people.

One day she was out feeding her chickens (or somesuch chore), during which time she fell and broke her leg.  She got back inside the house, but the telephone was.....upstairs.

So she had to drag her body a few miles, through the woods and meandering country lanes, to get help.

One has to admire her tenacity--I for one have done things similar, although not nearly as stupidly--but in dragging herself, she did further damage to the broken leg, the result being much more pain than necessary, and an addiction to pain-killers.  She's a mess right now.

But it's her own fault, for being such a foul, negative person to other people.  Probably if she were friendlier, other people might've come across her earlier in the ordeal, and helped.  But as it was, she's such a bitch that nobody thought check up on her.

If she's learned anything by now--highly doubtful--she's baked a batch of cookies every single day, leaving a plate of them on an open window, to attract people to come in and visit, to be sure she's okay (she's no spring chicken).
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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2017, 07:30:13 AM »
When I read the title, I was hoping it was something like they gave he/she/it rat poison instead of oxycodone, a la "It's A Wonderful Life."
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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2017, 08:25:10 AM »
Primitives have always been obsessed with pills:

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omz i took a dog pill. thought it was a cookie crumb. tasted like peanut butter


No wonder they like it. should I seek medical attn or induce vomiting.

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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2017, 09:28:45 AM »
Is it just me or is every single DU member on some sort of medication for one malady or another?  Christ, it's like leftist ideology rots you from inside out.
All that hate and bile rots you out from the inside. Living life with no happiness is a killer.

It is to bad they didn't give him some cyanide by mistake.
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Re: primitive's drug store made a mistake
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2017, 09:38:38 AM »
Calling Laserhaas...

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