K, so I see posts wayyyy to often where the OP is crying and miserable about the way their pharmacy treats them like shit and never is on top of making sure they have your meds available and/or ready for you come refill day.
If this is ever the case, you need to fire your pharmacy and find a better one. Usually, smaller mom+pop or smaller local chains will appreciate your business and help you ideally with these things without you even having to ask (or only requiring one-time orientation on what your preferences are as they relate to servics they usually do or should be offering:
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fill your meds automatically without you having to ask
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ensuring it is in stock without you having to worry in order for them to fill said refills
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advise you of any complications or further steps required of you to help them make sure you’re taken care of and consistent with refills
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remind YOU about shit, not the other way around. My pharmacy might as well be my unpaid intern/executive assistant with all things medical as they pertain to my business/the privelege of getting said business I grant them
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delivery: this is non-negotiable. If they ain’t delivering, I ain’t playin’. My pharmacy knows that to be my drug dealer, they gotta come to me. Cuz I ain’t leaving the couch to get my drugs
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deal with dr for you if any discrepancy or error is in the way. This is the beauty of medical practices with adjoining pharms. Ethics be damned, vertical/horizontal integration 4 the win!
That is all. Your pharmacy should feel so lucky to have a good get like AD(H)D patients, I would rather have that then a money printer if I was a pharmacy owner.
Spread the word and f all that noise. You are worthy to be waited on and catered to, controlled substance or otherwise.
Not sure if this is cogent but I take rhe 2nd rarest (prescribed/available) medication next to Desoxyn and I’ve never had an issue getting it filled, even in the depths of the Great Adderall Shortage although it wasn’t Adderall so not sure how relevant my n=1 is this context
tbf, there is more than just the line at the out window to worry about. You have patients dropping off scripts at the in window, patients calling in refills, calls to doctors offices, calls to insurance companies, scripts to type up, drugs to pull, count and put away, orders to be made for drugs and orders to be put away, hard copies to be filed, preparing deliveries, etc. And that’s usually all the technician. Then you have the pharmacist that usually won’t be running the register doing things like pre verifying and verifying scripts, doing transfers, preparing other things like vaccines or reconstitution of powders, accessing CII’s and sometimes counting those, doing other somewhat administrative tasks, supervising techs, etc.
Of course they’re not all working the counter, but still, Walgreens is being stingy or incompetent by not having 2 people working the counter when lines are that long. I’m sure they could analyze it and predict busy times and staff more effectively if they were willing to.
Walgreens does suck. All that money they could afford to do better staffing, it is true