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)

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.

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?"

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?

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

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

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

Same

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.

And I’m entitled to judge them!

You’re petty you say………. Never a truer word said!

For saying that women are entitled to be treated with basic respect?

You do you, hun.

That's not correct. The OP has a private prescription presumably prescribed by a private GP. The private GP I used to go to for a private precription specifically states they do not share information with anyone without my consent unless there is a serious risk to the patient or others.

Equally that GP did not have access to my NHS records unless I gave consent.

The private hospital where I had procedures carried out had permission to share data with the NHS. The doctor who issued my private prescriptions did not.

Let them make their own minds up but if they try and assert what they've made their mind up on tell them they're making a fuss out of nothing.

Since we're sharing opinions tbh I find "Mrs" a bit sad.

I've never seen any sensible, let alone convincing, argument for its existence.

Let them make their own minds up but not at the pharmacist.

The pharmacy is not the hill to die on.

Fair enough 🤷‍♀️.

I've never seen any convincing argument for Mr, Miss, Ms nor Mrs either. Nor even Dr (outside of a relevant medical/professional setting).

Making up other women's minds for them again I see. Thanks for letting us know, could you tell us all the places we can care and correct people on our chosen title?

Something a teeny bit more important than a pharmacist you see now and then?

Like where? Genuine question.

OP presumably gets a regular prescription so she is in there every few weeks but hey ho pharmacies just don't matter, so where is it important? Presumably the places that are a teeny bit more important are also the only places people should ever update their title Mrs?

That's just nonsense.

If a title has any reason for its existence, it's nonsense to have an arbitrary, unknown to the person affected, sliding scale of when a person is entitled, without being sneered at and eye- rolling, to point out it's wrong.

Of course, there's not the slightest doubt that a "Mr" pointing out he'd been called any of the female titles would get an apology.

I agree but societal expectations and many forms require me to pick one.

The only people who need to know my marital status is any person thinking about getting married to me and HMRC for the purposes of Inheritance tax.

But HMRC will never rely on someone using a title of "Mrs" to grant spousal exemption for IHT. Anyone can call themselves "Mrs" and claim to be legally married/civilly partnered, but what matters is the actual marriage certificate. No-one is going to take any action, backed by legislation/law/statute based only on what someone chooses to call themselves. Loads of widows/divorcees continue to use the "Mrs" title when they're no longer legally married. So, use of a title, is completely meaningless and pointless and anyone/any organisation relying on a title to infer sex/gender or any form of legal right/entitlement is crazy!

You've missed the point. Of course HMRC need proof of marriage.

Societal expectations in many curcumstances require me to pick a title which is loaded with societal expectations and assumptions. The one my husband can pick shows nothing beyond he's a man.