Using address instead of name to call people

[LonelyStranger]

At the local pharmacy (which conveniently sits in the same building as the doctors), I’ve noticed one of the employees at the pharmacy reads out the first line of the address when she can’t pronoince the name.
The first time this happened I was taken aback, and wondered why no one said anything.
I don’t think anyone wants a full (always busy) pharmacy to hear where you live (it’s a small town so everyone knows pretty much all street names).
Would it be wrong for me to call the pharmacy and speak to someone higher up?

Love the ideal that people think they're SO important that people are sneaking around in pharmacies jotting down their names and addresses.

Love the ideal that people think they're SO important that people are sneaking around in pharmacies jotting down their names and addresses

It's not about being important.

I'm a prison nurse and share my gps surgery with at least 15 patients. Would I want my patients knowing my address when I've detoxed them against their will, possibly sent them to the governor and had their sentence extended for abusive behaviour, and/or had other medications stopped due them concealing them and selling them?

Can you imagine the amount of dander I could be in if one of my patients hears my address?!?!?

I just slide my driving license across the counter.

I went to school with a girl with the same first name. She had a birthday a few days after mine. We both went to on marry someone with the same surname albeit written differently. We are both at the same GP. You can see how confusing it could be, especially just calling out name out.

If there are safeguarding concerns then you can usually let your GP surgery know and they add a note which then goes onto your prescription in place of an address.

I to get annoyed in the pharmacy. When collecting my son's controlled drugs medication they call out his name and ask me to confirm the address. I felt uncomfortable recently doing this as I was stood very closely to an obvious drug user. I think I will take a letter of ID or driving license next time and just show them that.

Why don't they just ask for ID like 99% of other situations where identity is important?

ferrier you’d be surprised now many people don’t have any suitable id. Not everyone has a passport or a driving licence, some don’t even have the copy of their birth certificate.