Prescription Affliction
PHARMACY | RIGHT | MARCH 27, 2013
(I am a pharmacy technician. The pharmacist receives a call.)
Caller: “This is Lisa; I am calling from Dr. [Name]’s office. I need to call in a prescription for a patient.”
Pharmacist: “Sure, what is the patient’s name?”
Caller: “It is [Patient].”
Pharmacist: “And the prescription?”
Caller: “It’s [narcotic], 90 pills, three times a day.”
Pharmacist: “Okay, thanks.”
(The pharmacist hangs up and turns to me, frowning.)
Pharmacist: “Do you know anything about this?”
Me: “What? No, why?”
(The pharmacist shows me the called-in prescription.)
Me: “Oh! Lisa was fired months ago. You had better call the police.”
(When Lisa came in to pick up the narcotic prescription for her boyfriend, the police were there to arrest her. The doctor she used to work for is my father; she was trying to use his license number to get pills from a dozen nearby pharmacies.)
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