[whartonjelly]

Maybe I will work there when we move down. It is rare to find a place well staffed.

[Jane52]

Originally Posted by brostholder

And then after having to wait and wait at the doctors office, you take the prescription he (or she) has just given you and head to your pharmacy. That's where I (Barry the Pharmacist) comes into the picture. You hand in your prescription at the drop off window and the tech tells you it will be a 30 minute wait. . . . If someone calls in sick, or there is an unexpected rush, your wait time can easily be 2 hours in some busy stores. My Dad, who was also a pharmacist, would be spinning in his grave if he heard this. But the amount of prescriptions getting filled each day has grown tremendously over the last 10 years. . .

It's good to know you might have 200 prescriptions lined up to fill, while possibly being short-staffed due to an employee that called in sick.

This is where I have to say that The Drive-Up Window is one of the greatest things that ever happened to drugstores. I can drive there to pick up my prescription in my PAJAMAS and warm fuzzy robe, and stay in the car feeling like warmed-over cr__, with my own A/C or heater setting for comfort.

I wish I could wait in my car at the doctor's office, too, instead of sitting in those stiff-backed chairs, paging thru old magazines full of germs, and watching that darn glass sliding window thrown open and shut by the nurse or receptionist who seems to want nothing to do with us "Riff Raff" sitting there waiting for the dr. we hired.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Jane52

I wish I could wait in my car at the doctor's office, too, instead of sitting in those stiff-backed chairs, paging thru old magazines full of germs, and watching that darn glass sliding window thrown open and shut by the nurse or receptionist who seems to want nothing to do with us.

I find it especially worrisome to sit beside someone wearing a mask and coughing. Or worse yet, not wearing a mask and coughing!