Joe
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I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on the drum all day.
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Post by Joe on Dec 26, 2010 21:00:45 GMT -5
I have a mental list of books I wanna write some day but probably never will. Mostly they will comprise a series of public-service writings dealing with stupidity. The working title for my first book will be How Not To Be An Idiot. Then they'll get less generic. The follow-up will be Flip-Flops Aren't Shoes - A Practical Guide to Footwear, the inspiration being last summer's visit to the Cliff Walk in Newport, RI, watching women trying to do it in flip-flops, even after they passed a huge sign saying not to bother without proper hiking shoes.
Today I've decided that another volume will hafta be Lenny's Pharmacy in Bloomfield - The Last Competent Pharmacist in Pittsburgh. This after trying to get 2 important prescriptions filled today at a pharmacy I won't name so that the good folks here at Horror Realm don't get sued for my remarks. It wasn't ready, it wasn't ready, & then my 3rd trip is when they decided to tell me that they were completely out of the first prescription & couldn't fill the 2nd coz they had to find the doctor & ask him some questions. Even when I gave 'em the doc's name & contact info, there was still a delay coz they didn't have his first name. He has an ethnic name---there aren't 2 docs by that name in Pittsburgh, trust me.
When you walked into Lenny's place, he knew who you were & greeted you by name. He'd wink & he had a motion he did with his hand like he was shooting at you with a pretend gun---friendly fire, of course---then he'd hand your prescription right over. No muss, no fuss, no red tape, no idiotic questions---in & out in 2 minutes. How I miss that place. Esp. on days like today. I hate to kill an entire free day getting prescriptions filled. Or not getting 'em filled.
And that's tonight's sermon.
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Joe
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I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on the drum all day.
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Post by Joe on Dec 27, 2010 22:57:06 GMT -5
Took 5 trips over 2 days, but tonight I finally have all my prescriptions. This doesn't, of course, take away from the fact that every pharmacist in this town is an impostor & an abject fraud. Whenever one walked into Lenny's, one could see his pharmacist license on the wall, right where one could walk up to it & read it & know it was authentic & that one was dealing with a real pharmacist, a man who deserved the title of Pharmacist. Nowadays every pharmacist's license is on a back wall behind the counter, where you can't read it, probably coz the licenses are fake & none of these incompetent clowns want to be found out to be the posers that they are.
Pharmacists of Pittsburgh, know that I'm on to you.
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Post by Miss Dee on Dec 27, 2010 23:05:43 GMT -5
Took 5 trips over 2 days, but tonight I finally have all my prescriptions. This doesn't, of course, take away from the fact that every pharmacist in this town is an impostor & an abject fraud. Whenever one walked into Lenny's, one could see his pharmacist license on the wall, right where one could walk up to it & read it & know it was authentic & that one was dealing with a real pharmacist, a man who deserved the title of Pharmacist. Nowadays every pharmacist's license is on a back wall behind the counter, where you can't read it, probably coz the licenses are fake & none of these incompetent clowns want to be found out to be the posers that they are. Pharmacists of Pittsburgh, know that I'm on to you. Allow me to pile on the health care industry: I had blood drawn on November 29. After two and a half weeks, I hadn't heard any results. I called my PCP's office and they had not yet received them. I called the lab and they said they had no record of me (looking under Sandy instead of Sandra), even though they already billed me. Turns out they sent the results to the wrong provider. I asked them to resend to my doc. Another week went by, still hadn't heard from the doc. Called his office, they said the results are on his desk. This was last Tuesday. Still haven't heard anything. So it's been four weeks since the draw, the lab charged my credit card for the results since I haven't hit my deductible yet, and I have no idea if I'm dying or what.
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SJ782
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Suffering from Cranial Rectosis
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Post by SJ782 on Dec 28, 2010 14:16:13 GMT -5
Took 5 trips over 2 days, but tonight I finally have all my prescriptions. This doesn't, of course, take away from the fact that every pharmacist in this town is an impostor & an abject fraud. Whenever one walked into Lenny's, one could see his pharmacist license on the wall, right where one could walk up to it & read it & know it was authentic & that one was dealing with a real pharmacist, a man who deserved the title of Pharmacist. Nowadays every pharmacist's license is on a back wall behind the counter, where you can't read it, probably coz the licenses are fake & none of these incompetent clowns want to be found out to be the posers that they are. Pharmacists of Pittsburgh, know that I'm on to you. Allow me to pile on the health care industry: I had blood drawn on November 29. After two and a half weeks, I hadn't heard any results. I called my PCP's office and they had not yet received them. I called the lab and they said they had no record of me (looking under Sandy instead of Sandra), even though they already billed me. Turns out they sent the results to the wrong provider. I asked them to resend to my doc. Another week went by, still hadn't heard from the doc. Called his office, they said the results are on his desk. This was last Tuesday. Still haven't heard anything. So it's been four weeks since the draw, the lab charged my credit card for the results since I haven't hit my deductible yet, and I have no idea if I'm dying or what. I sure hope that you've gotten things straightened out. There are times when it seems like its an endless struggle. The bad part is that no one knows who these perpetrators are accountable to. Or where to complain when you feel you've been wronged. There used to be a t-shirt that said, " Kill 'em all, and let God sort it out. " I don't have anything really constructive to say I guess. I'm at the point of taking things to the extreme.
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Post by Fromage on Dec 28, 2010 23:42:24 GMT -5
Je n'ais pas les "prescriptions". Et les flip flop? fttt
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