This happened a little while ago. Following an emergency appointment I had a handwritten prescription for several items including zolpidem which is a schedule 4 drug, ie a controlled drug but the least controlled iyswim?
I went and handed it in and the pharmacist called me over and handed it back to me saying he was refusing to fill it because my (HANDWRITTEN!) date of birth on the prescription didn't match what they had on file?!
I took a look and the prescriber had written a slightly wonky 4 which was correct, it was still recognisably a 4.
I said what is the issue and he said I might have faked it. He then HANDED IT BACK TO ME and told me to try another pharmacy?? He was speaking to me like I was a child, also.
It felt like he was playing a weird power game with me. If he really thought it was fake surely he should have kept it and... I don't know... Checked with the prescriber?? Not sent me off to try my luck somewhere else?
It really did feel like he was picking on me because my prescriber wrote in a hurry and it was issued by the crisis team - which is relevant a) because I was obviously vulnerable and b) they answer the phone pretty much instantly so it would have been quicker to check than to argue the toss about prescribing.
Not only that but I then rang the crisis team, got them to email the pharmacy and I have never been given a prescription so grudgingly in my life. I still get tearful thinking about it and I want to know if I am overthinking it and need to get over myself.