I had a floater pharmacist in my pharmacy yesterday. She refused to fill with this reason…
” we don’t fill this doctor’s prescriptions because the prescription paper on which they are written doesn’t last for 10 years as required by state document retention law”.
This is the most creative, award winning even, excuse I have ever heard.
OMG!!
Recently a pharmacy tech posted a video with a parody to Adele’s “HELLO” and much of the pharmacy community agreed and/or have said same/similar things about the excuses pts use to get their controlled meds filled early..
HELLO !!!…putting things on the internet can piss a lot of people off and make you look stupid ?
I guess a lot of those in the pharmacy community can come up with their own set of LAME EXCUSES… sounds like a good title for a COUNTRY MUSIC song ?
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My day job entails utilizing my earned credential ( PharmD) and my State-Issued permission slip (RPh) to provide a living for my family. Night’s and weekends, I’m a musician and a “jack of all trades” studio engineer. So I want to thank you Steve for the idea of taking the litany of pharmacy excuses and turn them into a country song with my collaborator. I can’t write lyrics to save my soul and pair them with a suitable melody. My collaborator does that for me and in turn, I compose, arrange, play and record a suitable musical score for the song. Steve, of course I’ll give you full credit for the title, “Lame Excuses”.
I just have to capture what is here, add my own known excuses and then once my collaborator has time to work on the creating set of verses, a chorus and a bridge, she’ll give them back to me along with the key that she’ll sing it in. I’ll make sure that she understands that it’s a country music tune and knowing her, we’ll get something that is going to sound a little like a Patsy Cline/Janis Joplin influence twanger. We get together with a simple progression I create on guitar, capture her singing the melody parts…back to the studio and add the rest of the arrangement (I play seven instruments) and then flesh out the vocal harmonies, effect/reamp, mix, master and fin. I went into the project details so that you know to not expect anything too soon. This tends to take a while…now if I only could support a family with music, but at the level that the day job pays…well, you know. {:0)>
Maybe you could mix in some of the lame excuses ‘patients’ use to try to get their narcotics filled early. I dropped them in the toilet, my purse got stolen, the doctor said I could take more and they fell out of my canoe. Yeah, i could totally hear Janis singing that.
We should collaborate on something a little Warren Zevonesque… ‘send benzos, narcs and somas’.
If only we could find a word that rhymes with toilet.
People like that just make it hard for people with chronic pain get their pain prescriptions. I have heard some excuses like oh we are out of that, maybe have them in tomorrow! Really?