Steve,
I too have had a look at your blog, and find it very interesting as I recognise just about all the situations you describe!
With regards to your partner's Rx being handed over to you without any explanation or advice, I thought I'd share with you what I was told in a similar situation by my superintentent Phcist: "Just because a person is handing in and collecting a prescription on behalf of someone else, do not assume that the patient has given you their consent to share any confidential information about their medication with that person"; in other words, if the pharmacist had told you what was on your partner's script, he/she could have been in breach of patient confidentiality rules!
I know, I know; it's totally absurd, you could have read the script on your way to the pharmacy before handing it in, but there you go...!
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