Unfiltered Story #410105

Me: Hey, my prescription is wrong. It’s not 10mg of <less potent drug> it’s 10mg of <more potent drug>. They’re the same class of medication but the dosing is different for <more potent drug>.

Pharmacy tech: *deer in headlights* Let me see the medication.

Pharmacy tech and pharmacist stick their heads together, examine the bottle and medication, mutter some things at each other, and then the pharmacist has another tech fill the correct medication.

Pharmacist: How did you know it was <more potent drug>?

Me: I looked up the description on the internet based on what the pill looked like. We’re lucky this was my first refill and not the first bottle. I don’t usually check to see if the pill matches the description on the bottle but I noticed it didn’t look like my first bottle’s meds and saw the bottle description didn’t match the pill so I didn’t take any.

Pharmacist: Oh.

It would have been a lawsuit they’d promptly lose if I’d taken any! But I didn’t want to take a med I knew was wrong. Unfortunately, because I didn’t take any, there’s no civil lawsuit despite the prescription being filled wrong.