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'm sure the Royal family wouldn't see it that way. ;-)

It isn't something that would bother me but if it bothers you nothing wrong with raising it. Might be easier if we just dropped titles, I mean who cares if I'm a Miss Ms Mrs or Her Ladyship.

I used to work for the police, due to the level of my job young officers would call me Ma'am. (don't know if that's how you spell it but pronounced marm.) I was early 30s and it made me feel like their granny. Id ban that one.

Yes but life isn't misery top trumps. If someone dying is the only thing that matters why not just repeal the equality act.

And of course neither you nor they know what my prescription is for.

I’m not seeing the connection between any of that and amending an administrative error.

Who is going to see the label on your box of medication? The pharmacist and you that's who, no-one else. Being divorced, different things have different titles Miss, Ms, Mrs. Personally I prefer no title as I have a first name and surname. It's not something I can get worked up about.

Yes me. If it addressed me as fatty drug seeker would that be fine cos only the two of us would know?

Now you're being silly.

Well, I suppose first name and surname are all that is required. You could ask I suppose.

I have to say though that this is so far down my list of things to get het up over that I have never even noticed what title my pharmacist uses for me and I get a lot of prescriptions. Must go and look!! 🤣🤣

No. I'm not. Respect for customers (who are patients) matters.

Not if it’s a private script, you pay the actual cost

And then some!

Ok ok sorry I didn’t agree with you enough 🙄

Many people have asked why you don't just change pharmacist if he is rude and overcharging you?

I appreciate your agreement I was just being emphatic.

I find Ms as pretentious at they/them.

Because it's super close to where I live and the next one over isn't

I’ve just checked my routine Jed’s, which I’ve been in for 10+ years, and it says Miss even though I’m a Ms. I’ve never noticed it before and couldn’t give a rats ass but obviously means a great deal to you so I think you should speak to your pharmacist. I just wanted you to know that I dont think they’re targeting you personally :)

I'm divorced so now a Miss, and the NHS still has me down as a Mrs on all my prescriptions/appointments/letters no many how many times I tell them its changed.

Couldn't care less tbh but just to show that they obv do it across the board- I imagine it's an admin error rather than a personal slight.

Does anyone remember a time when people saved their offence for something offensive?

In the long run, does it actually matter. It's not a legal document only you and the chemist staff are it. Do you get the right meds. Yes. All that matters.
Now if it was an important thing like a contract to buy a house, lease a car, a phone contract then yes I think it should be Ms. But are you just making a point to make a point.

So you call married women who don't have the same name as their husband Mrs? Weird to me. I mean I don't care what you think obviously.

In hospitals they write above your bed how you should be addressed because they recognise how much it matters.

Pharmacies are healthcare providers too.

It might be worth the extra journey to save yourself the irritation. There’s also online pharmacies.

As a pharmacist I would change it happily and apologise.

I wonder if they made a mistake with the earlier charge and every time they see you they are cringing about that.

It does sound peculiar. A pharmacist will rarely have time to have an opinion on who is getting what medication other than the actual clinical check of appropriate dosage etc

Pharmacist's don't input the name, title etc themselves a dispenser does and once registered it wouldn't be changed. Prescriptions are checked for correct name, address etc but personally I don't check titles...just wouldn't have the time! but I definitely correct it if asked and wouldn't give it another thought.

If you don't care what people think then why ask people's opinion on what the pharmacist's opinion will be? You don't need to be snappy just because someone has a different opinion.