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What would you do?
I'm a diabetic and have a monthly routine with my medications. My doctor has been playing around with different meds so last moth I dropped off the prescriptions at CVS. I picked them up the same day and my wife put them in my daily pillbox for the month.
For the last 2 weeks my blood sugars hit the roof! Over 600 this morning. I called my doctor and went in and he wanted to send me to the hospital. I called my wife only to find out I’ve been taking someone else’s prescription for the last 3 weeks!
The "package" from CVS was in a sealed white bag but the put the wrong bottle in the wrong package. I know I bear some responsibility for not looking at the bottle but what about CVS? I went into the store today and spoke with the GM for both the store and the pharmacist. They were very sorry for the mix up but for gods sake it almost put me in the hospital.
They gave filled my prescriptions for free tonight ($225) and didn't submit it to my insurance. What would you do? How far would you take this?
I picked up someone at the hospital one night after having day surgery for a hernia. While the pain meds were still in full force I brought him home, went and waited for the prescription to be filled, then was planning on delivering the meds. While waiting a woman who I know came in to fill a scrip for her infant. We gabbed a while then our names were called, I let her go first. She paid and went out the door. For some unknown reason, (strange as it was) the tech happened to double check the Oxy whatever prior to handing it to me. It was the wrong stuff. Jen had the Oxy for her infant in the sealed bag and I would have gotten some antibiotic for a 25 pound kid. I ran out of the store and she returned with me to the counter for proper exchange. She was white as a sheet. Surely a death was prevented.
Lesson learned was look at everything prior to taking it. Compare the label to the bottle.
As for taking it to another level.... That's your choice but what do you really expect gain by it? No damages were done so no $$$ if that's what you thought. Teaching a lesson? Unless someone is really stupid (we all know they are out there) my guess is that they learned... Hopefully for life. That lesson learned would be the same one that both you and your wife were taught.
I'd be happy with the freebie.
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My 78 year old father is a diabetic. We were in New York this weekend and he was flying home to Ireland on Sunday from there. He uses the insulin pen. He lost one of his pens and wasn't sure he could get home on what he had - especially if the flight was delayed.
So on Saturday he went up to the CVS store on Columbia Circle. He has a letter from his doctor basically saying that he was a diabetic and to render all aid. They said that they couldn't give him a pen and that he had to go to a hospital to get a prescription first.
He went to the hospital. They eventually gave him a prescription. They then charged him $300 and told him that that might not be the only charges. He went back to the CVS with the prescription and they then told him that they didn't have any pens and wouldn't be getting a delivery until Monday. I rang around and finally found a Rite Aid at 50St and 8Av that had one. He went there and asked how much for the insulin and they told him $200.
He decided that he wouldn't buy it. We told him that he needed to consider whether his health was really worth the additional 200 bucks but he was adamant that he wasn't going "to waste any more money".
Sad thing is that he gets everything provided at no charge on the national health system back home. I told him that what he saw here was the true cost that the NH system was paying. He made a good point when he said "everyone complains about the cost and process of a national health system, but no one thinks about the effectiveness of a centrally managed system."
This from a retired Managing Director of a Fortune 100 company.
Not arguing one way or the other - just quoting from the mouth of someone who has now experienced both systems.
I think of doctors like legalized drug dealers, thats all they really do... especially around rural areas.. no real medicine involved, just ok your depressed take this it makes you happy, you got kidney stones ok percocet, arthritis ok celebrex...etc now surgeons are in a different classification but just regular practicioners think about it... i really think it is a messed up system... just to get the pills you need antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, pain killers, you have to pay all this money for some little pills. 200 bucks at least for getting a nasty strep.. it shouldnt take more than 40 dollars in all actuality.... but this is the world you live in where it would take half a week of a regular average joes salary to get antibiotics, and dont get me started on what i think of "health INSURANCE' (in case SH#t happens)
not to derail your thread on the wrong meds but just a thought about the U.S. health care. If a very influential or high ranking official or even head of state from another country gets a VERY serious or life threatining illness or disease they don't go to Ireland or Canada or the U.K. for treatment. Doctors from the U.S. don't go to India or Pakistan to learn new
advances in medicine.
I guess when you get right down to it, the pharmacy didn't give you anything for your troubles/ health risk. You were not paying anything out of your pocket in the first place. This to me doesn't sound like much of a compensation for the health risk! If anything you would have saved was dispensing fees....big deal! I'd pursue this in more detail.
One thing I'd be very interested in if I were you, the pills you were taking, what if anything would they have done to your system?
On the brighter side of things, they didn't kill you.
In many states you would have a case for damages. Discomfort and risk to safety, health and life contribute to "pain and mental sufferring." Having said that, if I were in your position I would accept their apology and take my business elsewhere. It's a lot of hassle to sew them and the lawyer will probably get half anyway.
Actually, except for getting an apology that's what I have done. None of my local CVS stores knows the difference between "ONE" refill and "ZERO" refills and were not giving me my full duration of medications. I discussed this with my doctor and "ONE" refill means you get more after the first bottle is empty. CVS is not the safest place to buy meds IMO.
If you feel a need to pursue the mater without taking a lot of time or risking court costs (you could lose and have to pay ther lawyer too...), file a complaint with your state's health agency. Responding to the investigation will cost them and be on record in case somebody does get seriously injured. After the investigation is started you could 'tip' the local press so your friends and neighbors are aware of the risks of doing business at this store.
After the investigation, you could re-evaluates getting a lawyer and the state will have done most of your "discovery" for you.
Good luck!
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bigjimmie - 11/19/2007 9:09 PM not to derail your thread on the wrong meds but just a thought about the U.S. health care. If a very influential or high ranking official or even head of state from another country gets a VERY serious or life threatining illness or disease they don't go to Ireland or Canada or the U.K. for treatment. Doctors from the U.S. don't go to India or Pakistan to learn new advances in medicine.
No, they don't. They go to places like Israel, or Malaysia. The guy wasn't a head of state but he does own a Nascar team. And there is some cancer surgery that is being performed almost everywhere but the US that is very successful.
The pill I was taking was for thyroid problems. No harm was done by taking that particular pill. The harm came when I "thought" that pill was for my blood sugar. Like stated my doctor wanted to send me to the hospital but then discovered the problem and he had to increase the dosage of my meds to bring the sugars down. Not to mention I have to exercise more now!
Grrrr! Wrong medication! 
How far would you take this? 
