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Manxman_in_exile

Regarding the issue of pharmacists questioning what a GP has prescribed, this has happened to me, and he did the right thing! I had submitted a request for several medications to my GP surgery and when I picked it up, "it" turned out to be three separate prescriptions. I went to my local pharmacist and he said straight away "I can't dispense this - it's a duplicate of one of the other two, and all three of them have been signed off by three separate doctors"! It turned out to be a !!!! up at the surgery, which surprised me as otherwise they provide excellent care. My local pharmacist was an effective safety net and check.


I've also had another occasion recently when another GP at an NHS clinic prescribed me some medicine which they should not have done as I presented a major contraindication. Fortunately the clinic called me the next day to say, basically, "!!!!!! stop taking the medication NOW!". How it happened I don't know, as this GP was in possession of all the facts.


As an aside, if I worked in a pharmacy, that is the LAST place I would get my prescriptions filled.

hollydays

I appreciate your feelings of not being trusted, but after ten years working in a pharmacy you are surely aware of customers who come in to buy non prescription drugs from a circle of pharmacies, eg laxatives as an example , or who have an addiction to over the counters meds and visit a list of different pharmacys to avoid flagging up an addiction.
They will feel they are being accused and suspected, just like you, you now know that doesn't feel nice, but it's neeeded, why do you think you are above that?Do you think you are better than these addicts?Sorry to be harsh.

You must be aware how many people get addicted to over the counter meds , and how secretive and devious they become and how the addiction can spiral?


Actually, you should be really grateful your colleagues are showing such concern for you, and if you can't see that , I'd question what else is going on in your life, that makes you so blind to the concerns of others.

In your job, you should understand the need to be super transparent , and if I'd been you I'd have told them before they asked you anything..