“How do we ensure our patient drops and loses ~80% of his pills and that he slices the absolute fuck out of his fingers in the process?”
They’re locking my mental health goals behind a fidgety Saw trap built from scissors and miserliness.
I’ve had boxes where there were several single pills snipped from their blister packs rattling around in them. These pills in particular are tiny, like you can’t even feel them in your mouth when you take them, but they expect me to be able to finesse one out of a single blister with at least 3 extremely sharp and piercing corners on it 😒
If you’re a pharmacist and you do this, please go ahead and take the pills yourself, you clearly need 'em more than I do, ya sick fuck.
Here we usually do too, unless the doctor prescribes a weird number for some reason.
My doctor doesn’t even prescribe an amount. I just get whatever amount the pharmacy feels like. I’ve gotten a box with 30 pills (one daily so enough for a month), box with 60, back to 30, and the last time they gave me a box with 100. I’m not complaining, less refills so less hassle but it kinda makes me wonder how they decide the amount lol
Here the doctor decides, thank God. It means she can prescribe months worth of meds and I only pay 5 Euro. I always have to pay those 5 Euros for any amount (unless it’s asthma meds, those are free).
I think I pay a flat rate as well, not so sure tho haven’t checked in a while. But just like you it’s a couple of euro so it’s not that bad of a screwover I suppose