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)

This, fgs, this is someone who sees hundreds of people, is busy and they give zero effs what your name is. It'll just be whatever is on the label printed. If you want to be a pain to someone just doing their job then go for it. Alternatively just go to a different pharmacy as you clearly have some weird issues with them, which i strongly suspect is coming from you not them, and if its coming from them then why would you shop there.... I kept my maiden name and am regularly called by my husbands surname, it's mildly irritating, some people I am sure do it to make a point but guess what - I get over it and don't let it bother me, because it's kinder and easier for everyone. Be the bigger person.

This.

I can't imagine being this trivial. It really doesn't matter.

Like a PP said...get a hobby

I’d find a different organic supplier!
( much cheaper) depending on where you live of course.

Miss sounds like an ancient crone?

What a vile comment.

MUZZ sounds much worse. It sounds ridiculous.

And what on EARTH is wrong with a woman changing her name (to her husband's) on marriage??!! The vast majority of women do! (90% actually! Whether you like it or not!)

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It’s massively different.
The pharmacist won’t give two hoots about a cannabis prescription- our pharmacy do them too. ( They had leaflets about them) but very expensive.

God help you when you have some serious issues to deal with in your life.

Getting worked up over a title is bonkers.

What is so awful about Miss?

Do you not want to be noted as being single? (If you are?)

Fair enough but that is not the case for the OP

Miss sounds young and fresh, or rather glamorous like a Governess in a 19th C novel.

Mzz sounds like you are a divorced woman.

French Mme is far nicer.

If i was the pharmacist i would happlily update it for you.
But id be thinking 'what a dick' in my head.

Miss sounds like an ancient crone

Oh stop being silly.

Every woman is a Miss unless she marries.

Then it's Mrs although some women keep it to Miss for professional reasons if they retain their maiden name.

You sound egocentric I'm afraid.

The Mzzzzz was invented partly to try to apply to women who used Mrs but then got divorced and felt Miss wasn't appropriate any more- for whatever odd reason.

Incorrect

Show some respect for others

Most pharmacists are rushed off their feet- ours snatches a lunch break at about 3pm and doesn’t leave the premises- It’s long hours, too. 9-6

Accuracy, efficiency and to avoid mistakes.

Better to have just one patient record on the system for someone than having multiple.

I can promise they do care. It's not that expensive - a lot cheaper than the medicine I took before.

I am a pharmacist and would be totally happy to change it over to Ms. It would take less than a minute to do it. However I would have made sure it was right in the first place as it bugs me if someone has entered the incorrect title.

No but my treatment is totally unconnected to my NHS records. I don't want it to be connected and I've never confirmed any details about my NHS theoretical registration.

The reason most women change their names on marriage is because of the patriarchy though.

Surely they wouldn’t offer it if it bothered them?

Do Drs have to stay 'Miss' unless they marry?

Or are your rules a bit silly?

YANBU OP, tell them to change it. It's always Ms that gets ignored and changed to Miss as much as the weird posters say it doesn't matter, it very much does matter and I think it's telling how much it's "incorrectly" entered as Miss.

You know the posters clamouring how silly it is and it's only a title would be on the phone the instant they are down as Miss instead of Mrs because they actually do find it very important.

Leaving aside the Ms/Miss/Mrs debate, the fact that they have not checked the personal details correctly surely raises questions about whether the medication has also been checked correctly.

By the by , Re your aspiration/ desire to be called Madame : Madame is the French version of ‘Mrs’. Unmarried women are ‘Mademioselle‘ ; my eighty year old unmarried neighbour’s tax demand was addressed to Mademoiselle xxx.

(Although people in shops etc would call her ‘Madame’ as a courtesy to an older woman).

when you go into the pharmacy, do they call you Miss blah, when you want to be called Miz ? Can you really tell the difference en passant ? In the US they would probably call you ‘ma’am’…..

That plus the price miscalculation are a worry

Different pharmacies use different suppliers and the cost can vary from there. There will be price differences between medications dependant on whether the majority of delivery comes from AAH or Aliance Healthcare and whatever agreements these companies have with manufacturers already.

Were the brand names identical?

Even if using generic, the cost of generic tablets from Teva, Wokhart etc will still be different and the actual brands a lot higher.

Supply and demand can also play a factor. The moment one manufacturer has issues, the prices for the rest skyrocket.
I remember when there was a Metformin shortage years ago. The cost of the cheapest generic went through the roof.

As previous posters have said, all this could AMAZINGLY SIMPLY be solved if we followed the French system, which uses Madame for any adult female (ie above around 18- 20 years old), married or single. It's an exact parallel for the title 'Mr' accorded to adult males. So totally equal - unless people want to be otherwise performative about it. (And that's their right, of course.)

Just why don't we all get together and demand this? We're - women - over 50% of the UK population. Come on Mumsnet - start the campaign!

Ironically, after all this fuss, it's also important to note that Miss, Mrs, Ms are all abbreviations for the same old word: Mistress.That meant adult woman worthy of respect. Regardless of marital status.Have a read of this:
www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mistress-miss-mrs-or-ms-untangling-the-shifting-history-of-titles