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

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decided to edit this a bit for clarity - I'm a Ms, my pharmacist keeps writing Miss on the labels (as part of a wider pattern of annoying behaviour). Will I look mad if I say please call me Ms on my labels?

(The prescriptions all say Ms)

The OP is making a fuss about what matters little. She needs to tell her doctor, not the pharmacist (who seems to be getting on her nerves for other reasons) if she wants it clear she is Ms, not Miss. Why is she asking MN? I'm done, thanks.

Why does she need to tell her doctor? Her doctor isn't the one getting it wrong.

Hopefully that means we won't hear any more arrogant, stones in glass houses posts about what constitutes unnecessary NHS admin then.

Sounds like you need a prescription prepayment certificate

https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions/save-money-with-a-prescription-prepayment-certificate-ppc/

you can pay like £12 a month for 10 months or all in one go and whatever is prescribed for you is always free.

i can also highly recommend Pharmacy2U. Order your repeat prescriptions online and it gets sent to you by post. It’s also cheaper for the NHS to do it this way so a win/win all round

Op, I think you might need to sit back and put some perspective into this to be honest. If little things like this can get you so wound up, and we don’t really know the reason, then I suspect your problems might be a little bit more than pain relief. Folks have suggested changing it politely, using a different pharmacy (you can sign up to delivery rather than popping in) or simply putting this in perspective. Ok, someone, somewhere along the trail is making a tiny mistake, but I’m sure it’s either easily changed, or trivial enough to ignore. I often get misgendered, misspelt, mis titled mail, but it never sets me raging tbh.

Women only need to change their title if they choose to.

It’s not mandated. I know married women who use “Ms” (although I don’t know any married women who use “Miss”.)

Personally I have only ever been and would only ever be “Ms” so no changing necessary.

Why is “Ms” pretentious but “Mr” isn’t.

Why is it “pretentious” to not wish to be defined by one’s marital status and be equal to men in that regard?

Yeah, it's less of an indication as to someone's marital status these days. Divorced women who used Mrs when they were married might still keep it thereafter. Some women use Ms for their whole adult lives, and that includes married ones.

I am neither a Mrs nor a Miss.

I am a “Ms”.

Why is it pretentious to object to sexism?

Arrogance does not seem to be confined to me.

Why do you assume we are embarrassed?

Cannot you not fathom that some of us just object to sexism?

Why is it necessary for women to be defined by the marital status but not men? Why is it “pretentious” to object to the sexism inherent in that double standard?

And how does that explain married women who use “Ms”? Are they embarrassed to be married?

This!

I imagine a lot of the “why does it matter” people are married women who see a great deal of status in being married.

If they were “Mrs” and repeatedly referred to as “Ms” or “Miss” they would soon have an issue….

I don't. Though I might wonder if they'd got the right person.

Did you read the OP's posts. The doctor issues the prescription with the preferred title.

Throwing stones in glass houses when it comes to causing NHS admin is, though.

I have seen similar threads and I have to be honest that I just don't care about things like this. It may annoy you but maybe the pharmacist doesn't really care either.

I couldn't care less what title people use for me to be honest. I am female but my old dentist surgery had me as 'Mr' / used to make me laugh a little when I received letters from them.

Oh and while I use “Ms” I also cannot be arsed to correct mistakes.

But my point remains in why so many people are claiming this is a non issue. If OP was “Mrs” and annoyed at being called “Miss” most of the comments would be very different

Ok well that’s the pharmacist being weird and I would correct them.

Isn’t that the same then for those whose title is “Ms” and they were referred to by another title?

If the pharmacists was mistakenly writing “Mr” would it still be a minor point for OP to be annoyed about?

A Ms is a woman who may be single, divorced, married, cohabiting, widowed, in a same sex relationship, polyamorous, or any number of things which are none of your goddamn business, which is why she doesn't want to use a title indicating to nosy people which one she is.

@JHound I am assuming because it doesn't matter to those PPs - as it wouldn't matter to me. I understand people are annoyed by other things but for me personally this is a non-issue and so my opinion is that OP IBU.

A male friend of mine is a GP and insists people who aren't his patients address his as Dr - I think that makes him a bit of an arse. But that is just my opinion as well.

I'm not sure that would be a sensible approach, if you actually need the medication.