"Yaz oral tablets should be used with extreme caution in child bearing aged females."
This sounds like serious stuff. Indeed, it is serious enough that the pharmacist, and only the pharmacist, has to override this warning with a special code to allow the prescription to be dispensed. Some of you out there may take comfort in knowing that corpo pharmacy is looking out for you like this. Others of you know that Yaz is an oral contraceptive.
The computer is warning me to use extreme caution when filling a birth control prescription for a woman of child bearing age. And this warning must be overridden. Every.......single.......time. I would let you know what the computer thought about dispensing birth control to an 80 year old woman, except that, birth control tablets aren't as a rule given to women not of child bearing age you know. There are equally worthy computer generated warnings to override on the majority of prescriptions I fill.
A memo from corporate headquarters came today that said this month's customer service focus will be on having prescriptions ready when promised. I have made none of this up.
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Wow, our computer only has a pass on BCP's if the patient is 18 or under (curious how it considers 18 pediatric...)
Drugmonkey, where do you want me to send your next bottle of scotch? It's no wonder you drink.
MJ
Okay, five posts in two days....
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH OUR DRUG MONKEY?! Please, bring back the Drug Monkey who used to ignore us and would only post just enough to appease our sorry asses.
This new, prolific Drug Monkey is scawwy...
Oh that's great. We haven't had any quite that ridiculous, but a new one just popped up that requires us to override everytime we're billing to a secondary insurance (usually some state-funded plan) reminding us to bill the primary first. This wouldn't be so bad if you could just override the thing and get it billed, but no, we have to credit the prescription, rebill the primary, override the secondary, and bill it to the secondary. Everytime we have to bill a secondary, we kill a forest.
"having prescriptions ready when promised"
Some genius actually got payed to come up with that idea too. haha
that's just about as dumb as a "dose too low" DUR for BCP that I get for all 21 days packs because it instructs patients to skip seven days.
Ahhh...promise times. I love it so much. I like to call them "empty" promise times. How come we have to promise when it's ready, but they can waltz in whenever the fuck they want? I was in the neighborhood....so the fuck what. Why does this country insist on NOW instead of RIGHT?
I agree Annapolitan. The Drugmonkey must not be in love anymore, which explains his recent comeback. Lonely, broken-hearted, alcoholic Drugmonkey rules!!!
I can only assume you work for Rite Aid, judging by that DUR message. Another Rite Aid slave here.
Brad
As if those warnings aren't bad enough, I work with a foreign pharmacist who insists on calling physicians for *every* major warning. The physicans know now to just ignore her messages. When I get in for the next shift, 1st thing I do is override each and every one of the bogus drug interactions she has called on (using BCP in a minor, KCL & spironolactone together, vicodin in someone who is allergic to codeine because it makes them sleepy...) When she comes back from break and asks where all the DUR's went to, I tell her that all the offices called back while she was gone and ok'd everything. :) I suppose I'm enabling her problem, but it beats having the offices all calling me back screaming that we won't fill their patient's RX's.
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