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Reading through this, I can understand that not everyone has the same dexterity. By that logic, I'd have thought the techs might have thought this through, but as they're on camera, they could be worried of a Mgr asking them to step into their office.
I recall a time reading reader's digest, a man who couldn't read, was given a childproof container. He'd been found on his lawn dead from a heart attack. His son found a brick, picked it up and found the bottle under it.
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OP:
Have pharmacy put a comment in your file.
Tell them the next time they give you the wrong cap: you are changing pharmacies AND will urge a new policy at their main office.
There was no reason to card me. They had my file open already when I went to pick up my prescription and my drivers license is on file in their computer. I bought one bottle of over the counter cough medicine so why do they need my drivers license. I think that is nuts.
Also they know to have on file no childproof caps when I first signed up with the pharmacy. They have customers sign that it is what the customer requested and if a child gets ahold of it then it is on the customers azz for not locking away drugs of any kind from everyone on the home except themself. Geez I lock up all my medication in an extra closet I have. I just happened to save nearly everything else in with the 4" x 4" x 14" container.
The OP got a good idea to have them do that. I don't have any problems now since I signed up to not have child proof caps. It's easier to ask them right then and there to open the darn thing and I put the new cap on. But that stupidity with digging my drivers license out for over the counter cough medicine just made no sense. Seems that back in the 80's it was harder to get the childproof caps and easier to get simple over the counter without any medicine or drugs in the darn cough medication.
Now I we have to get assistance with buying eye drops simple freaking eye drops are locked up in the drug stores.
The cough syrup thing is a corporate policy, they can't do anything about it.
I just opened a resident's bottle of milk that had one of those 20 minutes ago! She would never have been able to do it. Nor can most of them open the little foil packets of mustard and catsup that come with their meals. Once I lose my teeth, I have no idea how I'll open half the things I need to open.
OP:
Have pharmacy put a comment in your file.
Tell them the next time they give you the wrong cap: you are changing pharmacies AND will urge a new policy at their main office.
This was her first time at this pharmacy, and OP didn't tell them she needed the easy open cap until she was picking it up. She wanted them to change it there, but I am guessing this is another corporate policy, that once a prescription is done and bagged, the pharmacist can't modify it.
Keep a little scissor handy in the kitchen, right next to your magnifying glass. Scissors are great for opening lots of things, including blister packs and the seal on ketchup bottles.
Don't fool with little scissors. Get those big honkin' meat shears that'll cut through small bones.
I have signed up for a free service called simplidose at CVS. They package your medications into little plastic packs according to time of day to take them. The date is included on the pack, I love this service, it makes it so easy. I get a 30 day supply
There was no reason to card me. They had my file open already when I went to pick up my prescription and my drivers license is on file in their computer. I bought one bottle of over the counter cough medicine so why do they need my drivers license. I think that is nuts.
About the bold, there's different computers used in the pharmacy. They all don't contain the same info. Even the registers used at check have different info. They don't store your drier's license so they can look it up later. It's used for that one transaction. These workers are just following the law. They have zero control over these issues. Neither does Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, Walmart, or any other pharmacy. Thank the people who use these medications for illegal purposes such as creating meth.
I HATE these things! I can NEVER get them to peel off. I always have to use a knife and stab a hole in it. How's that safe?
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