Pharmacist, how good a customer am I?
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My GF works for a high street chain and she works in the healthcare dpt. They are focusing on the prescription side of things as its so lucrative and easy money as they are not competing with tesco etc like the do with shampoo. They get extra cash for offering advice, splitting prescriptions and more,
I do, yes. The system allows you one a week if the Diabetes drugs and blood sugar levels cause an issue in the gentlemens region.
Whilst its straying off topic I found Viagra ok, but it came with a dramatic blue echo in my vision and from time to time a real headache. Take them with 2 ibuprofen seems to be the way. I have tried Cialis and Levitra, but they aren't so good. I am now experimenting with my gp at a very low dose of Cialis every day.
Whilst its straying off topic I found Viagra ok, but it came with a dramatic blue echo in my vision and from time to time a real headache. Take them with 2 ibuprofen seems to be the way. I have tried Cialis and Levitra, but they aren't so good. I am now experimenting with my gp at a very low dose of Cialis every day.
Deva Link said:
The system for checking those are valid probably costs £millions.
Many years (25ish) ago my father worked in the admin bit of the NHS and he told me that if they found out you had claimed a free prescription but weren't actually eligible they sent you a letter asking you to pay.If you didn't pay they didn't take any further action. His time was more taken up with trying to stop doctors getting paid for patients that had moved.
skeggysteve said:
Deva Link said:
The system for checking those are valid probably costs £millions.
Many years (25ish) ago my father worked in the admin bit of the NHS and he told me that if they found out you had claimed a free prescription but weren't actually eligible they sent you a letter asking you to pay.If you didn't pay they didn't take any further action.
In a former life, I ran a significant Pharmaceutical distribution operation for one of the two largest distributors in the country.
We had a very predictable pattern of claims for missing items that ran into the tens of thousands of pounds every week.
To put it into perspective, we ran 13 depots, hitting an average of 200 pharmacies per depot, twice a day. It's fair to say there were usual suspects & we calculated that some of those guys were probably putting their kids through very good schools indeed on the proceeds.
In the end, it became such an intractable problem, we took to weighing every iteration of every product & applying the data to every picked order to identify the worst offenders. However, when you have a client running a chain of independents spending north of 200k per week, it's a delicate subject if they're giving themselves a 1% discount.
But it did go on, I can assure you.
We had a very predictable pattern of claims for missing items that ran into the tens of thousands of pounds every week.
To put it into perspective, we ran 13 depots, hitting an average of 200 pharmacies per depot, twice a day. It's fair to say there were usual suspects & we calculated that some of those guys were probably putting their kids through very good schools indeed on the proceeds.
In the end, it became such an intractable problem, we took to weighing every iteration of every product & applying the data to every picked order to identify the worst offenders. However, when you have a client running a chain of independents spending north of 200k per week, it's a delicate subject if they're giving themselves a 1% discount.
But it did go on, I can assure you.
Speedracer329 said:
Six Fiend said:
My pharmacist is always happy to see me - I take around 20,000 pills a year 
You take 55 pills every day? Really?Jesus, thought I was bad enough taking 14 a day.
Knackered pancreas requires handfuls of enzymes to be taken with food or I don't digest anything. It gets painful and messy if I don't take them!
Add in steroids for lungs, various other bits and bobs and then things to counteract the effects of long term steroid use (bone density drugs, pain killers due to the bones issues) and essential vitamins. It all adds up.
Then there's the insulin (many of us become diabetic too), the nebulised antibiotics and other niceties, plus inhalers.
I'm by no means an extreme case. Quite average really. Others take far more stuff than I do.
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