So I’m standing at the pharmacy in Howell NJ last March, already in a bad mood because I just had a root canal, and I just want my damn antibiotics so I can go home and feel sorry for myself. The pharmacist disappears with my prescription for like twenty minutes. When she finally comes back,…
My grandmother takes nine pills every day. Nine. I count them out with her every Sunday when I visit. She’s 82 and lives alone in the same house she’s been in for forty years. Up until last year, she managed everything fine on her own. Then she had that bad fall and everything changed. Suddenly…
I used to drive 15 minutes to this huge CVS where I’d wait in line forever, just to pick up my monthly prescriptions. The pharmacist never remembered me, they were always out of something, and honestly, it felt like I was just another number. Then my mom got sick and needed her medications delivered, and…
My dad got diabetes about three years ago and it scared the hell out of all of us. He’s always been healthy, never took any medications, and suddenly he’s got this glucose meter and insulin pens and we’re all trying to figure out what the heck we’re supposed to do. The doctor gave us this…
Pharmacy runs are the worst kind of errand. You never know how long you’ll wait, someone always needs a refill at the last minute, and tracking different prescription schedules feels like a part-time job nobody asked for. Medication sync changes this completely. All your family’s prescriptions get refilled on the same day every month. One…
Last winter, I was in CVS getting my prescription refilled when I saw a sign about flu shots. I’d been putting mine off for weeks because I couldn’t get an appointment with my doctor until after the holidays. So I asked the pharmacist if I could just get it done right there. She said sure,…
Okay, let’s talk about something that’s probably driving you a little crazy – all those pill bottles lined up on your counter. Every time you go to the doctor, it seems like they add another one to the collection. Am I right? You’re standing there in the morning trying to remember if you already took…
Last October, I watched a grown man argue with Denise, our pharmacy’s head pharmacist, for twenty minutes about how the flu shot gave his cousin’s neighbor autism. Denise, who has the patience of a saint and three decades of experience, just nodded and said, “Sir, the flu shot doesn’t have that power. But the flu…
My mom used to go to this little pharmacy on Main Street where the pharmacist knew everyone’s name and what they were taking. I thought it was old-fashioned and kind of pointless – why not just go to CVS where it’s faster and probably cheaper? Then I started taking a bunch of medications myself and…
Last month, Eleanor walked into my pharmacy looking confused and frustrated. She’d just been discharged from Meridian with five new prescriptions, minimal explanation, and that all-too-familiar feeling of being rushed through an overwhelmed healthcare system. “My doctor had seven minutes with me,” she sighed, sliding her prescriptions across the counter. “Seven minutes to explain five…