To ask my pharmacist to use my actual title on my medicine

It pisses me off too i would ask them to correct it. It's fine to let it go now and then when people don't know but to not match with what the prescription says would make me comment.

It's not a big deal to many. But I do not believe a woman should have to announce her relationship status nor to I believe it has any relevance to most things that require your title.

Life is too short.

They call have my name printed on it as 'Mr Wanker' for all I care.

So not an NHS pharmacy ?

Why do women have to anounce their marital status? Men get Mr. and that's it. I've never seen a sensible explanation for this.

I'm married. I don't care whether it's Miss or Ms. I hate Mrs. I don't mind being Frau, Madame, Mevrouw, Signora, etc, etc, because other countries don't have this ridiculous belief that a woman's marital status must be visible every time she uses her name.

I genuinely think you must have lived some sort of absolutely privileged life to get so wound up over something so ridiculous. Like I flabbergasted that people have so much time on their hands to be so petty over a title. I didnt even realise anyone alive today would care about their title, I find womens titles so misogynistic.

Secondly the pharmacist is probably fed up with you commenting and complaining over every little thing everytime you come in. You sound like one of those people who is just never happy and has to make a fuss. Being a pharmacist in community is a horrible, thankless job and you've just proved it. Peoples expectations are so high, pharmacists clinically and physically check hundreds of scripts a day, do vaccinations, run BP, viagra, morning after puill and diabetes clinics, sort staff issues, sort customer/gp issues, order medicines, to a mountain of paperwork.... very rarely get lunch or get home on time and yet people question our role and blame us for everything.
Pharmacist do not just stick labels on stuff, they clinically check prescriptions and you would not believe the amount of errors doctors make.
Most hospital wards now have their own pharmacists because of their knowledge of medication. Pharmacists actually correct a lot of what doctors do.

At the end of the day, theres no way to address it without the staff all doing an eye roll. If you must, ask the girls at the counter or find another pharmacy and give everyone there a break.

And as for pharmacists asking questions for the last 5 years I have bought a medication which can be issued on prescription or sold only by a pharmacist. My consultant offered a prescription but I don't have a script for it. I think it's a waste of NHS time and money to process a prescription for something which can be bought without one.

Now I know, and my consultant knows, there is a contraindication for a condition I have but the benefit far outweighs the contraindication and I take it on the consultant's reccomendation. The nature of the medicine is one that the contraindication should be obvious. The manufacturers say on their literature that it shouldn't be used by someone with my condition.

Not once has any pharmacist asked about this or asked if this is on a doctor's reccomendation or self diagnosis.

This. ^ Anyone who insists on using 'Ms' is divorced or single, and is embarrassed to be (divorced or single.)

I'm not saying women who are divorced or single should be embarrassed, at all! But IMO the women who insist on being called 'Ms' are a bit embarrassed about their marital status, and are desperate to hide it. 👀

Yeah, my local Market Town Boots is brilliant. (3.5 miles away.) Smiley, helpful staff who are happy to help you. Quick efficient service. Only 2-3 days from requesting a prescription from the GP - to getting it - from Boots. 15 minute wait if you take it in... And open 8.30am to 6pm every day except Sunday. The other little market town 8 miles away from me has a really good Boots too. Same service.

3 other Boots I know (in a large town 14-16 miles away,) are dreadful, with not enough staff, long waits for prescriptions, and management who just sit on their arse watching people standing there waiting to be served.

Exactly. What a ludicrous thing to get worked up about! 🙄

Honestly who cares 🙄

You can tell them you do not want to disclose in front of other customers or ask to speak in the consulting room.

The Boots pharmacist is a human and could have been having a bad day hence the short response. It could be they’re someone who’s not particularly nice but that doesn’t give you the right to discredit an entire profession.

I despise my local Boots because there are just not enough staff so no matter how hard the pharmacist tries, the service is appalling. Doesn’t mean every Boots in the country is as bad

A little off topic, but I always assumed that even if a married couple decide not to change/share their name the woman/women still change their title? As 'Mrs' denotes married. Unless otherwise preferred, of course.

(By "always assumed" I mean I've never, ever thought about it until just now, when I read your post. 😅)

YABU. Ms is pretentious. You’re either a Miss or a Mrs. Ms to me is someone who is divorced or unmarried and for some reason doesn’t want to say so. Ms is akin to they/ them. You’re one or the other- shit or get off the pot.

Funny then that Boots, the same Boots branch who were so rude about my suggesting they were under chargingme for the private script, have never once asked about any NHS scripts.

Please explain why the Boots pharmacist's response to my asking if they were selling a private script too low compared to what I'd been charged before was " do you want this or not"?

Please explain why I should tell a pharmacist in front of other customers why I was taking a certain medication?

It's not your name though. It's a title.

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Pharmacists are under a legal and professional obligation to comprehend and challenge a prescription which a pharmacist feels is unsuitable or potentially harmful. They are not processing robots whose task is merely to mechanically put labels of packets of pills in a bag and check your DoB and address

I don’t know it the pharmacist controls those or if it is just data from the prescriptipn.

I am like you in that it irks me when people use “Miss” (or occasionally, weirdly, “Mrs”) for me. It’s not my title. I would prefer no title to “Miss”.

Pharmacists are highly trained professionals and are expected to do FAR MORE than just check name, address and medication. Otherwise a vending machine could do the job. GPs are not infallible and can make mistakes, the expectation is we pick it up if it does happen

If there is an error with the prescription where the dose is wrong and the patient comes to harm, we are jointly liable with the GP. Yes we do ask why something has been prescribed on occasion because some drugs are prescribed at different doses for different conditions.

With an attitude like yours, it’s no wonder your pharmacist has taken a dislike to you

The OP's script is a private script. It has no effect on the NHS.

Oh I see you think that a pharmacist has the right to query what was discussed and agreed between patient and doctor and decide they know better?

The right to ask a patient, in front of other customers , when collecting a prescription, what it's for?

The examples you give are nothing like the situation I had.

Yeah, go for it, it's not like the NHS isn't busy enough.

With respect, it sounds like you are struggling to really put yourself in the shoes of a pharmacist. I wonder if you would feel differently after working as a pharmacist for a week. I would certainly struggle with the amount of demands, the precision required to make sure I was dispensing the correct medicine; the people who pop in to discuss all sorts of matters relating to physical and mental health. I always think when I watch pharmacists at work that it is a job I would really struggle to do and I respect and feel grateful other people have the skill set to do it! What I am thinking is that this is not about you or any spite towards you… apart from anything else I would imagine pharmacists have so much on their minds to remember and do precisely and correctly that the last thing on their minds would be pissing someone off intentionally.