vyvanse prescription has been delayed for 3 weeks now. i am a patient, yet severely ADHD soul, so I figure “oh it’s probably just delayed because they’re out of stock” and go about my business since I had about a week left (thanks to me completely forgetting to take it like 30% of the time).
wake up this morning and realize I am taking the last one I have. Not good, I think, because next week is especially busy at work. So I take an early lunch break at 9:30 and drive out to Walgreens to see if maybe, somehow, I’ve just completely missed the “your prescription’s ready” call and texts.
Pharmacist asks me what I’m looking for. “My vyvanse prescription, it was placed on the 24th. My name is ABC and DOB is…”
Tappity-tap-tap on their computer. They glance up and narrow their eyes at me like I’m asking them to hack into the NSA’s secure amphetamine database. Tappity-tap-tap.
“You’re picking up a vyvanse prescription?? For whom??”
Uh, myself…? Here’s my license.
“Hm…I’m not finding it, let me ask the head pharmacist to take a look.”
30 minutes go by. The Head Pharmacist finally comes out and asks for my license for the second time. “The other pharmacist literally copied it down on the clipboard before they went to find you.” I say as I fish it out of my wallet. They blink and look at the clipboard.
“Oh…huh. You’re right they did.”
Now I’m somewhat irritated as I hand them my license again. He looks at it, realizes it is exactly the same as what the sheet says, and hands it back to me.
“So umm…it looks like the generic lisdexamfetamine is backordered which is why we haven’t filled it yet.”
This wouldn’t be a shock except for the fact that I don’t get the fucking generic. So immediately my response is “Well, my insurance covers the brandname 100% and I don’t even get the generic so…are you saying the brand-name is also backordered and you cannot fill it??”
“No, we can fill it if you want the brand name medication!!”
“So why did y’all not fill it for 3 weeks if literally every other time I’ve filled this prescription through you, I’ve received the brand name medication??”
“…Because the generic is back-ordered sir…”
??? What the fuck are you talking about. It sounds like you just tossed my prescription into the “backordered” pile whenever it came in and didn’t realize it wasn’t actually a backordered medication until I came in. Thank you for wasting my entire hour lunch-break!!
The only pharmacist I know spent college self medicating with cocaine and research chemicals from the internet.
In his defense, he was always willing to share.
Tell me if this is a scorching hot take
But I’m starting to believe that some of the super rich kids in med, pharmacy, veterinary, dentistry and orthodontics programs made it through said program because they were rich or were charismatic
Hopefully just outliers, but I’ve had two known instances of people who were dentists that definitely shouldn’t have passed dental school.
But even so, shouldn’t even be possible for schooling like that allow people to slip through the cracks
Cold take. The modern professional only got there with family resources or some other form of privilege for the most part.
It’s a bit more complex than that. It’s more if you are rich and you can’t pass, they will drill you until you can. By force-feeding information to the failsons and handwalking them through the tests regardless of the required resources.
That’s why dropout rates at Oxbridge et al are relatively low compared to “new money” top-tier universities. They will get Mr Habsburg Chin through enough exams to scrape a third if it kills every teacher in the College.