This is 100% true. Each store has a certain number of vaccines and screenings that they must get each month. As a result there is little time to be consultative, do minor compounding and even do fills. That why you are so many pharmacy technicians doing more and more of the work. Don’t forget the big three pharmacies just recently started giving their pharmacists a half hour lunch break. Throw in inventory, receiving and stocking the pharmacy and there is absolutely room for dispense error.
I was the recipient of a dispense error back in 2008. I had Graves Disease, an extreme hyperthyroid condition.
I was filling my prescriptions at a Safeway pharmacy. Once, the pharmacist gave me a sedative instead of the thyroid drug. Just this once I did not check to make sure I had the correct medication when I took it home. The pills looked identical to the correct ones, except for a different inscription.
When I took them back, the pharmacist was so grateful that I did not tell anyone else that he arranged for me to get a $200 Safeway gift certificate.