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

And I’m entitled to judge them!

You are aware that Doctors who work in the private sector are often also NHS doctors? You have also heard of continuity of care? If you've been seen at any point within the NHS and then go to be seen privately, relevent medical records are shared between services?

Private medical care is not "seperate" from your NHS care, you are really just paying to go to the top of the list and that it'll be easier to care for you on a smaller ward where the staff are not overstreched; Your medical history is your medical history regardless of where you get your medical care.

Same

I don’t even care when people get my first name wrong, never mind a meaningless title

And other women are entitled to judge you for your opinion.

I thought in the 21st century women were able to make their own minds up….. clearly not.

Yeah you don't care the pharmacist got it wrong, but you obviously don't care across the board about not being called Mrs or you wouldn't have bothered changing your title to it. Wherever it matters to you to be called Mrs, you would be totally within your right to correct them. If OP wants this correct at the pharmacy, what's the difference?

Since I'm quite petty, if the pharmacist is called Mr Taylor, I'd ask to speak to Mrs Taylor, and when the person dispensing says, "Do you mean Mr Taylor?" I'd reply, "Ha, yes, glad you agree that getting people's titles correct is important. He keeps getting mine wrong. Can you ask him to correct it please?"

I just checked my prescription boxes. They all have me as Ms and I am very much a Mrs. I don't give a shit as long as I get my medication.

Right but they already know her chosen title and keep ignoring it, so personally I wouldn't be saying to them "I prefer Ms" anymore than I'd be saying "I prefer my name spelled X" I'd be saying it's incorrect and asking them why they keep entering it wrong

She can.

Other people can't choose something else for her though.

A title is a choice, a preference, there is no law on which you can use. It is a personal choice. A preference. She chooses ms. She can easily chose something else.

She doesn't prefer Ms though, Ms is her title and what she's provided them and what they keep not correcting. Miss isn't a correct title she doesn't prefer, it's just as wrong as being Mr.

It's because they don't see "Mrs" as a preference (even though it is). They think updating your title to Mrs and changing your surname is updating something factual and all the admin load of doing that everywhere you are registered is a must do task, but telling the pharmacist that they've incorrectly entered your title is a big fuss of nothing.

Agree with this but she should say, "Miss is incorrect", not "I prefer Ms".

Op, clearly most of us couldn’t give a shit. But it is clear it is massively important to you. To such an extent you even think ms is part of your name and not just a title. And start a thread on it.

so next time you go in, just say can I ask you to correct as I prefer ms to miss.

Apparently not, updating your title and surname with every change to your marital status is just viewed as updating your details but asking people to use the title you've provided which will stay consistent whether you marry, divorced, remarry etc is making a big fuss 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think there are far more important things to worry about.

But "Mrs" get a free pass because it's expected women should do that and be pleased to do it.

It's completely sexist as is the "quiet down woman, stop making such a fuss " responses people are giving to a woman asking someone to do something as simple as get her details correct. Internalised misogyny on full display.

Also to those saying it doesn't matter - what if the pharmacist put Mr versus Ms? Having a title that indicates a different sex could make a big difference depending on the meds the patient was being prescribed. Someone I know was supposed to be being prescribed HRT and instead was prescribed testosterone, not sure how or where tye mix up began, but surely having the correct title does matter in that case as a common sense check? 'Oh Ms Blah, do you know why the doctor prescribed you testosterone? What was the issue you were trying to treat? Oh HRT - you've been prescribed the wrong medication. ' But generally I do agree that if titles don't matter let's bin them to save the admin as a PP suggested upthread.

Also before someone accuses me of making up the above mix up, I can tell you that I was also wrongly given pills for angina, codeine, and blood thinners when I was in that pharmacist for something else. Also the GP surgery was terrible for making errors themselves including telling a 90 year old woman she just had a cough and wouldn't check her sats, she died two days later of pneumonia (again someone I know so can verify this).

You didn't go around causing a fuss to change your title to something no one cares about of course

Does "causing a fuss" apply to women who change their title and name when they get married?

Well surely you are always called Miss and you stayed registered as that everywhere, right? You didn't go around causing a fuss to change your title to something no one cares about of course?

This puts my problems into perspective

Are you being serious?