My Favourite Script Ever!!!!

[cymru72]

Thought I would share my favourite script with you. This is from a store in an affluent market town where the customers run riot at the GP's with their demands for particular brands of drugs because the others 'don't agree with them'!!!!

On ONE script:

Tenormin LS 50mg
Micropirin ec 75 mg
Tritace tabs 5mg
Istin tabs 10mg
Zocor tabs 40mg

and....

Warfarin 1mg tabs.

Was seriously considering doing an MUR on this patient and sending a recommendation to the GP that the warfarin 1mg be changed to 'marevan 1mg' just to complete the set and make the script more rounded!!!

I actually keep a photo of that script on my BB for posterity! (with patients name removed of course!!!

[crit care]

i do like those patients who prefer the branded drugs..i think so thzt they can fit the boxes more easily into their louis vuitton handbags!!

i had a patienrt the other day who doesn't like our brand of paracetamol that we keep in! not because it doesn't agree with them...she just doesn't like them....i suspect the packaging wasn't up to scratch, and it shouldn't be seen sat in her cupboard next to the tins of caviar!

[tinx25388]

I had a customer who insisted upon "Micropin EC" - it wasnt written branded on the script, but we only had Almus in stock (which if you remove the outer packaging, does usually have Micropin EC) which he insisted he didn't like. His box "accidentally got squashed" and his Micropin was dispensed in a plain white box.

I hope the patient with the script above was a levy patient. I think there should be an additional levy (the difference between the brand and generic price) for those who insist on specific brands. Why should the GP have to waste money from their budgets?

[Pharmanaut]

I had a customer who insisted upon "Micropin EC" - it wasnt written branded on the script, but we only had Almus in stock (which if you remove the outer packaging, does usually have Micropin EC) which he insisted he didn't like. His box "accidentally got squashed" and his Micropin was dispensed in a plain white box.

Totally unethical.
You should be hiding behind the sofa waiting for the GPhC dawn raid.

...just another day in pharmacy isn't it.

[bobbin]

I think there should be an additional levy for those who insist on specific brands.

Yes, there should. In particular, the NHS should not be paying for Zocor.

[DavidS]

I think there should be an additional levy (the difference between the brand and generic price) for those who insist on specific brands.

Brilliant idea.

[bobbin]

I had a customer who insisted upon "Micropin EC" - it wasnt written branded on the script, but we only had Almus in stock (which if you remove the outer packaging, does usually have Micropin EC) which he insisted he didn't like. His box "accidentally got squashed" and his Micropin was dispensed in a plain white box.

Almus don't manufacture anything, they just repackage other company's products. As far as I know, Almus aspirin e/c is always Micropirin.

[bobbin]

Brilliant idea.

They do this in Australia. It's called a Brand Premium.

[Mr Pharm S]

We have a lady who not only has to have Zocor but the british Zocor as anything else gives her migraines apparently.

Even the P.I. Zocor gives her Migraines, she denies that the Zocor made in Spain are the same as in England. She didnt like it when I said that the English brand was made in the USA, she thought I was lying!! She didnt know what to say when I showed her the Manufacturing address on the 'English' and the Spainish Zocor where both USA. All she could muster was 'but theyre in different boxes!'

Conclusion is that she is stupid.

[bobbin]

She didn't know what to say when I showed her the manufacturing address on the 'English' and the Spanish Zocor were both USA. All she could muster was 'but they're in different boxes!'

It's in the mind. MSD (Merck & Co, Inc) is an American company, based in New Jersey. I expect that tablets are produced at one manufacturing site and packaged into many different boxes for different countries.

I think customers have this idea of nice English companies making their medication in nice English boxes. Of course, most medicines are not made in the UK at all, and most pharmaceutical companies are not English.