By phone, drug stores are amazing.\u00a0 You can ask to talk to a pharmacist at nearly any hour and get quick, accurate information without going through a doctor\u2014even if you didn\u2019t purchase your prescription there.<\/p>\n
But trekking to the pharmacy in person?\u00a0 Yikes.<\/p>\n
Why can\u2019t I leave my prescription and come back later? <\/em>Instead of waiting in line just to drop off my scrip, I\u2019d like to \u201cdeposit\u201d it, then wander around putting hand sanitizer, hair dye, Hawaiian-style potato chips and People <\/em>magazine into my cart.\u00a0 Can someone explain why the store insists that I instead inch forward with my Sudoku, seething, thinking of the Tequila aisle, not to mention all those sedatives and mood stabilizers behind the counter?<\/p>\n Is there some kind of cost-prediction black hole that affects only prescriptions? <\/em> OK, now I\u2019m at the front of the line, and you can\u2019t give me a price for my medicine until I come back and go through the line again<\/em> to pick it up?\u00a0 Is there any other retail transaction like this on the planet?<\/p>\n Is it just me, or are those shoeprints in the pharmacy line hilarious?<\/em> The cute embedded images of a left and right shoe sole in the floor, a few feet away from the counter, do not reassure me that my privacy is being respected.\u00a0 When the pharmacy technician shrieks \u201cWhat is the prescription for?\u201d it kind of bursts the confidentiality bubble, no?\u00a0 For the record, I do not wish to announce in public that I\u2019m picking up a refill of the prescription-strength Dramamine I take for existential nausea.\u00a0 Or the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug for chronic incendiary rhetoric.\u00a0 It\u2019s simply nobody\u2019s business.<\/p>\n Published in Piedmont Post<\/em> June 24, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By phone, drug stores are amazing.\u00a0 You can ask to talk to a pharmacist at nearly any hour and get quick, accurate information without going through a doctor\u2014even if you didn\u2019t purchase your prescription there. But trekking to the pharmacy in person?\u00a0 Yikes. Why can\u2019t I leave my prescription and come back later? Instead of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,30],"yoast_head":"\n