March 2024 by Steve M
Revision cut off story.Short version- I was on a magnificent sleep medication for a year.Pharmacist wouldn't fill it.You CANT CHANGE something like this abruptly. It's against all rules of medical safety and ethics.So I'm kept from sléep for 2 more days bc pharmacist overruled the doctor. 5 past doctors gave me this sleeping medicine at this dose for a year.NO PHARMACIST SHOULD BE ABLE TO OVERRULE A DOCTORS ORDER.They wouldn't take the instructions from nurse and demanded to verify with doctor AT 1 AM IN THE MORNING. This was done. So now they created a problem for the doctor making ME a problem.The replacement medicine has me groggy all day, NOW ruining my efforts at productivity to arrange numerous medical necessities once I leave this facility.IE, THEY HAVE CREATED A REAL PROBLEM for someone already sick, weak and needing to set up my care. Basically they have now harmed me.And this was after going through 7 prior days of poor sleep because a new medicine gave me restless leg syndrome, which you can't sleep on anything if you get this as a side effect (of a heart med)So we're going on 10-12 days of sleep disturbance. Would you be upset if messes with like this?The US is ranked #15 in healthcare. It's worse in TX.So it's not the disease that kills you.. it's people & providers like this. People uncooperative.The entire business is a way to make money off the human condition. It wasn't always this way.PharMerica is part of the massive healthcare problem in this country, not part of the solution.
