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

It does vary. I was surprised when I was charged £25 for some very bottom of the list antibiotics prescribed by my dentist as I was sure I'd paid a lot less when DH needed them a while ago and thought it was one of those cost of living things. Needed a second lot as it didn't clear it and I was in a big shopping centre so went to the pharmacy there.

£9 for an identical private prescription. That's quite a big difference.

Knowing the different (and rare) reasons that any drug can be prescribed is a major part of a pharmacist's job.

Bloody Hell, talk about 1st world problems. 😏

Well if you're not married, you're a 'Miss.'

Can't see the problem. Ms sounds ridiculous anyway!

This is a new level of first world problems! 😆

Pharmacists have enough shit to deal with every day. Get a grip FGS!

@neverknowinglyunreasonable · Today 16:12

I would refuse to take the medication out of principle.

FFS! 😂 Just when you think you've read it all on here.

Honestly, I would just start using a different pharmacy.

I have come here in solidarity. I also have a pharmacist who got quite visibly exasperated when I questioned something which then actually highlighted an error had been made. He now makes the same face when I go in every month to pick up my prescription. A sour pinched face and a theatrical sigh.

I also have been reverted to a Miss, rather than a Ms and each time I ask if it can be changed he sighs again, makes a 'don't you know how busy we are' eye roll' with a 'look at what i have to put up with' glance around everyone else waiting and promises one of the team will update it when they have a spare second....

Sarcasm, I think 🤣

Miss is the least of your problems with this particular pharmacist. Take your business elsewhere.

I find a lot of the answers to this weird. I always tick Ms. It’s annoying when people won’t respect my choice and it happens all the time.

It’s not niche and it’s been around for at least 40 years - I’ve been Ms on my bank account since the 1970s. It’s incredibly rare that it’s not offered as an option. Why should you be made to feel bad about asking them to get it right.

OP you are right this unprofessional, disorganised and disrespectful. It’s none of their business why you’ve chosen it and it’s just basic admin to get it right. It’s not as if accuracy is unimportant in a pharmacy.

Passive aggressive? Are you kidding?

You really think that a busy pharmacy is deliberately trying to piss of customers by putting miss instead of ms? You think they've got nothing better to do? Jesus, get a clue.

Agree. If this is a pattern of behaviour, can you go elsewhere?

I'm exhausted reading this thread......

What a vile and judgemental attitude to hold about a patient (whose history you will only have a snapshot of).

Rude.

Not sure I see the parallel between a man or a woman identifying as not being a man or a woman, and a woman who doesn't want to be defined by her marital status, tbh.

@Everythingisnumbersnow They are already very much not on my side due to openly disapproving of the prescription so that ship has sailed

Ahhh. There we have it. You're being really childish OP.

YANBU, but is there any reason why you can't give your custom to a different pharmacist?

That wasn't obvious from your first post.

Just go elsewhere just as you would with any other business that you weren't happy with.

So just tell them! You won't achieve anything by telling strangers who can only state the bleeding obvious in their attempts to help you.

But do you want the pharmacist to call you Ms Everything? Would you ask staff in a hospital to call you Ms Everything? Surely not. It'd be first name, and the pharmacist has that right so there's nothing to worry about.

Of course you should ask them to correct their record because it'll be easy for them to do and they won't mind doing it. But don't take it as a personal insult that they don't care what your title is until you ask them to.

We should be like the Chinese and have no titles at all. Other cultures manage perfectly well without them.

I was given an alternative of Mx once, and went onto SM to ask what that meant. It's for people who identify as non-binary, or don't want their gender specified in any way. It doesn't really seem to have caught on.