I may have misspoke...Today may have brought out more crazies than yesterday did:
1) We had one lady come in with a prescription for Oxycontin. She then essentially demanded that we give her a couple of tablets immediately to take because she was in withdrawal and couldn't wait the 15 minutes until we actually had her prescription filled. We proceeded to fill the prescription as we normally would whereupon she came up to the counter and again demanded that we give her some to take "right now." I finally had to lose my cool a little bit with her...I essentially told her there was a process to filling the prescription and they were not her tablets until I had finished that process.
2) We had a lady come in with a prescription for a medication called Flagyl. It's a medication used to kill a variety of different "bugs" including parasites like giardia and trichomonas. When I'm ringing her up and counseling her about taking it, she proceeds to say, "Not only did my ex-fiance leave me pregnant, but he also left me with something else." Nice...Like I (or anyone) needed to know that.
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too much information... People crack me up sometimes, and even though I'm all for thorough patient counseling -there are those tell-tale signs occasionally that say "you really don't want to go there." The crazy lady with a script for killing funny nether-bugs? Clear case of "take two and please don't call me in the morning!" Ha Ha good stories.
Reading about your experiences makes me really, REALLY miss working with the public.
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