This was posted on another facebook page today 09/20/2015… According to this particular WAG’S pt… Pharmacist Julie could care less if they are health or happy.. and her mind is appears to be like a “mouse trap” .. once it snaps shut with a conclusion… you can’t open it…
Just left Walgreens on us.41 in Cochran plaza. (Port Charlotte, FL ) Julie, the pharmacist, decided not to fill my prescription for my pain medicine. I asked her if something was wrong with the prescription and she told me it was her discretion to fill it or not. I asked her what her criteria was and was this Walgreen’s corporate policy not to serve some customer’s and serve others? She said it was not company policy but her decision and it was at her discretion since she was the pharmacist. She also said she did not know me. I told her that I was not denied last time and that she could look it up but she said some other pharmacist filled it last time.
I tried to reason with her, that I had gone to the doctor’ office and paid for an office visit in order to get the special and secured paper that the prescription was written on. I asked her if something was wrong with the paper, was is illegitimate or was it was the color of my skin or my age? She refused and was getting real rude by this time so I thought she might call the police since I was made to feel like some drug addict.
I am 63 years old, an employer in the community and serve my community and many charitable organizations. I am so frustrated that those of us that need pain medication to get through the day are being denied service, forced to pay for visits to the doctor’s office just to get the prescriptions and then have to run all over town to try and get the medication filled. I have bone cancer and I have tumors in my arm, two in my spine and one in my left cavity where my kidney used to be. I have had to spend well into hundreds of thousands of dollars for surgery, chemo therapy and radiation treatments. I have all kinds of side affects from the chemo drugs, yet I continue to work, provide jobs, volunteer in my community and make a difference in the lives of hard working people. I am joining other folks like myself that we ask the Florida legislature to come up something better than the discriminatory practices that are now on the books. I wrote my state senator but have heard nothing.
I am now reading where this law will only drive up health care costs (it has for me) and fuel black market sales of drugs as well as cause more suicides. Yes, suicides. I know because the pain associated with some of these cancers are unbearable and death would only bring relief. Too bad the DEA and Florida legislature could not see this coming. Thanks for nothing.
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It’s a shame health care has come to this. Prescription refusals are rampant in my “wild and wonderful” WV. It’s actually discrimination and I hope every client being refused their LEGAL & LEGITIMATE prescriptions take action. As a prescriber, I deal with this issue on a daily basis. God bless you all fighting for your rights. Stay strong!
Florida, the retire state, not anymore. Shame on Julie leaving someone i n such pain, and so demeaned/ discriminated. Hope she cannot fill as need and gets her own.medicine. Suicides and withdrawals SHOULD be sueble. Why are they not cases of serious harm and endangerment? Is this not, Julie practicing medicine, like a Hitler, without a License.
I too was just recently shut down by a WAGS pharmacist for absolutely no reason, I went in on my 30th day, handed the young man my prescription and it was handed back without a word. When I asked if there was a problem he explained to me that it was too early, I politely said he must be mistaken and thought maybe there was something funky on the insurance end at which time he told me he didn’t run it through the insurance, it was too early for his liking and only addicts and people who abuse their medication fill on the 30th day. He then went on to suggest that not only did he think I was in fact an addict because I had questioned his initial decision but that if I didn’t leave he was going to make it so I couldn’t fill anywhere. I attempted to appeal to his humanity and explained that I don’t drive and it would not be until almost a full day after my last dose that I could get to another pharmacy and that there would be no guarantee it would be in stock when I got there. That’s when he told me not to worry withdrawal wouldn’t kill me. I stormed out and tried another pharmacy, sure enough he had made sure it wasn’t until a full 24 hours that I was able to fill ANYWHERE. To be fair I don’t have cancer, I do have lupus,fibro,MCTD, and currently a separated shoulder/depressed collar bone and all of that was more than enough to be miserable going through a forced withdrawal. My heart goes out to that woman. There doesn’t seem to be a single thing we can do about it, we’re forced to endure shame and abuse.
She should be ashamed. I hope he follows up with a public letter to the local paper and a complaint single person above her at WAGS. And betting she probably tagged him in their system so he couldn’t get it filled at any WAGS pharmacy…..I fill legit pain patient meds and especially cancer patients pain meds…cancer patients should never be denied their pain meds….it’s inhumane to deny them.