 Re: Occasional Blog
Notice recent press on perindopril arginine. Today got script for perindopril
erbumine. Presumed standard variety-- or is it.
'Phoned by irate warden of care home re non delivery of dosette box for a resident. We had no script and our records showed script rquested but not received from surgery. Warden then 'phoned back to tell me that script had gone to our competitor who had delivered it, but in standard boxes. Pt rejected as said wanted in dosette box. The pharmacy collected and when I asked them, said script now destroyed. I cannot be sure but appears they had not 'phoned us to let us know.
I phoned surgery and we will get new script tomorrow. Naturally we will give dosette boxes for free, while our independent competitor makes a charge.
In the end, after consultation with surgery, I filled dosette box and delivered to residential home as pt run out. At least the SmartNav found the home so no worries there. But I filled the box without any script-----.
The fact that the other pharmacist saw no reason to let us know he had received the script in error illustrates why pharmacists will never win. We attack each other and the DOH divides and rules.
johnep
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