Posted on 03/25/2011 7:16:56 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Sue, sue, sue and then fire, fire, fire.
<The victim is a diabetic, and as such she is in constant, life-long need for supplies and very specific drugs. She probably had hundreds of visits to the pharmacy before this happened.
Yup. My pharmacists know me by name. Every now and then, endos write a ‘wrong’ prescription - we discussed some changes at the visit, but s/he writes the old script or forgets that I use a pen not a vial. No problem; either they give me what I want or they call the doc’s office. Why in the name of all that’s holy would the pharmacist, who sees this woman probably 2-4 times a month, call the police? Why didn’t anyone call the doctor?
Sue ‘em all. Let God sort ‘em out.
btw - I must say that at 57, I bristle at someone in my age group being described as ‘granny.’ We’re hardly feeble old grannies at this age!
Please stop with the apologetic s. We are well past the time that cops, courts, judges, city hall has become a cess pool of corruption and power. Long past legitimacy. It is time to recognize that society is very very broken. It is time to defund city hall at the ballot box. I give you permission, vote irresponsibly in your local elections. Vote “no” to sales tax extensions. Note “no” to municipal bond elections and property tax extensions. Let the lights go off at city hall. I promise it will be fine. You can live without the damn dog catcher. Buy a gun, or three and you can do without officer friendly handing out traffic citations to granny for not paying her tax stamps. To hell with city hall and the jobs program for otherwise unemployable lawyers. To hell with Union thugs with guns, armed city employees. To hell with the f’ing village and all the do-gooders who want to tell others how to live and are willing to pay for the privileged of doing so. Pay for guns, boots, and thugs financed with money extorted at gun point from the unwilling.
Agreed. Her life was endangered by this pharmacy and the Nazi police. I hope she takes that pharmacy for every penny they have.
Exactly right. We’ve been going to the same pharmacy for probably 15 years. It’s close, convenient, good prices, friendly people and reliable. You get to know the people on a first name basis. I got the feeling from the article that this was in the woman’s home town and she wasn’t traveling.
It’s late, I may have missed it....this poor woman was arrested on a felony charge, arraigned and jailed without bail because of a mistake made by the physician. A mistake he makes frequently. Sure, the charges were dismissed but not before her name was published in the paper, maybe with her mugshot.
So why in God’s name did the paper neglect to mention the name of the physician?
Agree 100%.
I wasn’t apologizing and I object to your suggestion that I was. Anything but.
If I thought a 6’6” black guy with dreadlocks robbed me and I approached him to ask about it, I’d definitely prefer he be tied up while we conversed.
Nice of him to say that after he already called the police.
And I suspect there will be a rather large check written for a violation of HIPPA and patient privacy laws.
I would say the pharmacist did. Some people do try to add a number to the script & scripts are given out in certain numbers. By law he may have had to but if he knew the dr made mistakes before he also could have called the drs office to check it. I would be suing the drug store & the cops. I doubt the lady looked like an addict. I also wonder if this was a monthly scrip the husband took & the pharmacist questioned it. Either way he & the cop should have called the dr’s office before letting the woman sit in jail.
“My guess is the pharmacist on the counter was low man on the totem pole.”
A licensed Pharmacist should know the law and procedure. They have professional standards to follow. Anyone this stupid should have his license revoked by the Pharmacy board.
My doctor made an error in the other direction and told me to continue taking the pills for a month until gone-except he only wrote 10 days supply on the scrip!
Doctors make mistakes,and undertakers cover 'em up.
Charges dismissed...arrest will still show up on a background check. She now has to petition the court to expunge the record, which isn’t something you just walk in and do. People give cops way too much credit for the job they do. Some are awesome and deserve much more than they are given. Others are nothing more than bullies with a badge. Feel bad for the lady. Especially if the pharmacist is backing up her story. A little diligence would have went a long way, but I bet his union contract doesn’t allow him to do his job.
At Darius...that pretty much sums it up. It would be amazing to see this happen, in a place where people gave a damn. Everything and everyone would just settle into their lives and everyone would just live their lives.
A very good friend is a DEA agent. Right now, the agency is concentrating more and more on stuff like this. One of the things they’re going after is the pain management clinics that are popping up all over the country. But more and more they’re going after legitimate pharmacies. I guess they’ve grown tired of all the meth, cocaine and heroin coming into the country. Its a lot easier to arrest a compliant pharmacist or doctor than it is to go after drug smugglers
Yes, the RPh would have called the police to report a suspected forgery before the police would get involved. It happens all the time and the way RPh’s handle it is to call while the suspect is waiting to pick it up. They accept the rx as if nothing is wrong and ask you to wait.
I’m wondering if there werent two pharmacists on duty: one that knew the doc and one that called the cops.
Did the pharmacist call the cops??
It seems to me that the pharmacist was the one who must have got this misunderstanding rolling. He should have checked with the doctor before calling the cops.
Now pharmacists have to call the cops if they suspect fraud, but a call to the doctor would have straightened this out.
Ultimately the fault lies with the doctor, not the cop or the pharmacist, however.
HIPPA is a joke. If you think HIPPA protects YOU, then you're a fool.
Roid Cop.
Good thing she didn’t have her dog with her.
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