Her pharmacy of 5 yrs no longer will fill her oxycontin script. She is 80 yrs. Old and has been on oxycontin for 5 + yrs. She just can’t quit abruptly and we have been to so many pharmacies and turned away from every one with different reasons such as: “I don’t feel comfortable filling this prescription” , ” this pharmacy doesn’t fill for this docor”, to ” if it were in stock , I would fill it. I called the doctor and I verified a great patient/doctor relationship, but I’m just a fill in , talk to the main pharmacist ” , which we did , and she just no she won’t do it and when I asked her to call my moms doctor, she walked away from us. I asked her if she won’t atleast try to speak with my moms doctor , she walked away and ignored us. . You are a avocate of pharmacist’s and patients . Please tell me what I do to help my mom. We live in the 91342 area , california. If you know of any pharmacies that will fill her medication, please refer us to them . Thank you sir for your time
Who believes that they type of “professional behavior” has crossed the “unprofessional conduct line” ?
I have a retired pharmacist friend in CALF and who is on first name basis with the executive officer of the CA Board of Pharmacy… He is a strong pt advocate … let’s see if I hear anything.. I am not holding my breath…
We have a serious – and growing – pharmacist surplus in this country. It is estimated that by 2025 there will be 50,000 Pharmacists looking for a job that doesn’t exists. If a chain pharmacy cares if their employed pharmacists are denying care to pts that are suffering with chronic conditions that require controlled medications… they would be firing them and hire someone who are really focused in caring for pts. The only pharmacists that I hear about getting fired are 50+ y/o and have maxed out their salary and weeks of vacation and other benefits and replaced by a “much younger version “
Here is a website that will help anyone find a independent pharmacy in their zip code http://www.ncpanet.org/home/find-your-local-pharmacy when you get tired of being “just a number” at the local chain pharmacy
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The 80 year old woman needs her prescription FILLED!!
Its called talking out of 5 sides their mouth…More lies by liars,,,How could stopping a 80 year olds medicine be humane,lawful in any frame of humane treatment,,,ITS NOT,,IT WRONG!!!!..
JMO,Dead on about the pharmacist issue,,I think my pharmacist who worked for 30 years either quit because she saw thee inhumanity,,as she told me about or was pushed out!!
This whole PROHOBITION and klondynation of our field of medicine,and our medicine is WRONG,,,IT IS INHUMANE,,CRUEL,,AND GOES AGAINST EVERY MORAL,ETHICAL FIBER OF THEE TRUTHFUL REALITIES OF A CIVILIZED REALISTIC WORLD.
TO BE A HUMANE SOCIETY,WE MUST TREAT THE MEDICALLY ILL HUMANELY,NOT TORTURE THE MEDICALLY ILL TO DEATH,LIKE KLONDYNATIONALIST HAVE DONE.
TO BE A CIVILIZED SOCIETY,,WE MUST ACT CIVILIZED TOWARDS THOSE LESS FORTUNATE,OR THOSE WITH MEDICAL CONDITIONS THAT ARE PHYSICALLY PAINFUL, SHOULD W/OUT QUESTION ,HAVE ACCESS TO MEDICINES THAT LESSEN THEIR SUFFERING,THEIR AGONY,FROM PHYSICAL PAIN…U KNOW,, on another site,”stat,’ I got into it w/some DOCTOR,, WHO SAID,, that’s the part were trying to control,,the suffering,,if human’s can control their brain not to suffer,,,i was like r u f–ing kidding me?Like what arrogant ,inhumane rock did this guy crawl out from,BUT he was doctor…Why would he even think he has the right to expereiment,or even try a experiment ,that will cause physical pain onto another human being to prove his theory??How arrogant does 1 have to be,to think they have that right??
It just make e sick,and angry,,that a 80 year old women,,who aint getten any younger,who aint going to get any ,”new,” body parts,,that are not going to hurt,,She is elderly,her bones are gonna hurt,,for the rest of her life,WHO THE HELL IS ANYONE,,TO FORCE THIS INNOCENT HUMANBEING TO DIE IN AGONY FOR HER REMAINING YEARS,,,WHY WOULD ANYONE THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGHT,???!!WHY WOULD ANYONE THINK THATS OK??!!!WHERE HAS THEE HUMANE CIVILED SOCIETY GONE???!!!maryw
It is highly likely her age is a huge factor. As we get older our ability to metabolize medications is not as effective as it once was. Other medications we take can increase the possibility for interactions and other problems. New health problems can increase the possibility of some risky medication side effects.
If a pharmacist said he would not fill it due to the prescribed. And no other pharmacist would fill it for various reasons. It is,time for mom to change doctors. A doctor giving a,patient the medications they want does not mean it is in the patients best interest to take it
Wow,,really Hope??Have u ever heard of ,”group,” think??If this 80 year old women has taken this MEDICINE for 5 years,and she has said it help her,and she has given her doctor,” inform consen,”t to treat her w/that MEDICINE, then who the hell as any pharmacist to deny her the right to A LAWFULLY PRESCRIBED MEDICINE??DOES THIS PHARMACIST/YOU KNOW HER MEDICAL HISTORY?are your doctors?IS HER MEDICAL HISTORY YOUR BUSINESS?THAT ELDERLY WOMEN WILL GO HOME IN AGONY,AND THAT PHARMACIST CAUSED THAT AGONY FROM A MEDICALLY PAINFUL CONDITION,,SOO IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU OR ANY PHARMACIST TO LITERALLY TORTURE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THEN??POSSIBLE TORTURE TO DEATH!!!!I HAVE 17 CARDIAC ABLATIONS FROM FORCED ENDUREMENT OF PHYSICAL PAIN FROM DOCTORS,PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY HAD THE RIGHT TO FORCE PHYSICAL PAIN ONTO TO ME,,W/NO KNOWLEDGE WHAT SO-EVER OF MY MEDICAL CONDITION,,HOW DO U KNOW IF THAT PHARMACIST FORCING PHYSICAL PAIN ONTO THAT 80 YEAR OLD HUMAN,,WON’T CAUSE HER TO HAVE A HEART ATTACK??!!!WOW,,UNBELIEVABLE!!!maryw