Came here to say this and that what they ask for depends on state. NY makes you verify address and last 4 of phone. I pass my license to the clerk and the pay pad asks for the numbers, so I just punch em in.
They ask for different information at different times at the Walgreen's by me. Sometimes phone number, sometimes address. This is after providing name and date of birth.
This is particularly annoying to me. Address. Birthday. Oh, and I've got to hand them my driver's license for certain medications. Like - isn't that all on the card I just handed you with my picture on it without me having to announce it to the rest of the people waiting in line?
During mandatory covid masking I wrote the information in my notes app and held it up so I wouldn't have to yell it out through mask/plexiglass. I still do it that way. No complaints yet, and several pharmacy techs have even commented that they appreciate me doing it that way.
i have to do both. they ask last name and date of birth to look me up, and then once they grab my prescription they ask me to verify my address. getting prescriptions in college was kinda annoying because i had a new address each year and sometimes i didn’t remember which one they had on record
Yea, I've never been asked for address at the pharmacy. Has to be a regional thing? It's always been birthday only unless it's a controlled substance they require ID and don't ask for anything else.
I have a very complicated last name it involves spelling it over and over. I just hand them my license and tell them everything they need is right there. They are so happy I do that lol
Yeah that’s not cool. I’ve had the pharmacist announce loudly on 2 separate occasions “When you’re getting a prescription for OPIATES…”. I don’t even recall what she was saying, but the point being, I didn’t want it announced that I was getting pain pills. Switched pharmacies after that.
Yeah really. I have a long time Rx in this category and they just asked me to say my phone number out loud before I could purchase at the POS. There are private consult areas (mine has a closed door vaccine/consult room for example) or one could write the private info down and slide across the counter, if uncomfortable or feeling others are within earshot. I am aware that some of these drugs, people get robbed or killed for on the street. Pharmacies are used to being discreet and requests for privacy - such as administering a restricted med daily.
About 12 years ago I was in a pharmacy in NY when they were held up for their painkillers. I felt so bad for the obviously traumatized pharmacist. The robber simply wanted his fix and was caught next door. Soon after that, laws and policies changed. Now these types of drugs are in timed safes, etc.
In other words, it’s worth being cautious. This is your private personal and medical information.
wow i never considered all that. i always feel bad for pharmacists, they’re over worked understaffed and constantly yelled at. especially after covid. but of course there’s a fear of robbery, like how did i not consider? it just adds that extra layer of anxiety everyday, like working 3rd shift at a gas station
i wonder if it’s appropriate to bring them cookies or something lol, they deserve a treat
I lived in an area with lots of elderly people who weren’t too rich. They’d also get the added stress of trying be a social worker to the 80 year old widow who is broke but will die without her diabetes medication and is just crying not knowing what to do. I was always happy when they’d try to help even if it was busy- but I witnessed it frequently enough that it must be pretty common.
"What prescription are you here to pick up?" Sir it's midnight, can you please not make me announce to everyone in this Walgreens that I am currently getting my adderall...
**”John Smith, your gonorrhea medicine is ready! Please come up to the pharmacy window and confirm that you still live at 100 Main Street, Springfield, IL!”**
I have called and complained to our local Walgreens about that. They had a sign stating if you are picking up a controlled substance, they would ask for your address.
OK, let the junkies know not only who has the good stuff, but where to get it from.
They said they would take it under advisement. Now they just ask everyone for their address.
Oh — I just transferred to a different pharmacy after the same thing happened to me. I even asked the pharmacist what was wrong with them and if they were trying to get me mugged in the parking lot or something.
That’s a little over the top - it’s probably company policy. How would you like it if you were doing your job and someone said “what’s wrong with you?!?”
I don’t care if they like it. They should be communicating customer concerns to their superiors. And if the higher ups don’t change the policy, they can refer to it as one of the reasons revenue is down.
I heard a pharmacist loudly talk about someone's estrogen pills for HRT who was trans. We were talking to her in line and I was pretty sure she was but yeah, pharmacist just confirmed it to everyone. That could be really dangerous for her.
Edit: and that was really dangerous for you too, someone could have mugged you for your pills.
Reading these comments is stunning to me. The lack of regard for patient safety is just so... startling. I hope the trans person you were with didn't feel singled out in some way. It seems so mean-spirited for them to do that. I have controlled meds because of a spinal injury. I've never experienced the kinds of things being described here.
They actually cannot do that. Make a statement like that I mean. I thought that was a federal thing, but it could depend on state. Do that here in NY and say hello to a fine after I file a complaint. That's a good way to get someone jacked up in the parking lot.
they ask me "and you still live on \[my street name\]?"
call me paranoid, but i don't really want everyone around knowing the street i live on? and since they asked me first it's not even for security because i could just lie. why! just give me my pills that i'm using to treat the paranoia that *you're* exacerbating!
this is not how they’re supposed to be asking, i was explicitly taught to ask open-ended questions for this and to not give them the answer and ask for a yes or no since people can easily mishear or just nod when they don’t know the address at all
That isn't as bad as me being forced to announce my new address while in court when being a domestic violence victim. I was like well here's my address-- y'all better get ready to send the coroner there tonight if you don't give him jail time now because you're essentially signing my death warrant. (Obviously he got prison time)
I now know you can request to give the court your address in writing to avoid that kind of situation, but they didn't bother to tell me back then.
I think the proper response would be, "Your honor, i'd prefer not to tell the defendant and his family and friends where I'm hiding from him and am offended the court suggested it."
Absolutely. If I had the knowledge and confidence then that I have now, I wouldn't have even been there in the first place. Hindsight and all. But thanks for trying to make sure that the former domestic violence victim felt worse about being victimized super awesome of you.
I was in a lab waiting to be seen, and while a woman was checking in, the clerk called someone and very loudly asked what code she should use for an aids test. I could not believe it.
Lol the urgent care clinics around me always make me tell them my issue out loud at the desk in front of everyone in the lobby. It doesn’t matter that I filled out everything online already and they could just read it… they don’t read
It’s never really bothered me and 95% of the time there’s one other person in line. Most people use the drive up. But one day I’m standing in line behind a mom and her daughter what seemed like forever because I’ve watched several videos and I’m not really paying attention just waiting for her to be done. The pharmacists asked her to confirm her address, she slowly turns head and disgustingly looks me up and down and then whispers it. I get what OP and everyone is saying but the ignorant way she looked at me just really pissed me off. She obviously knew I was there, she could’ve just simply like someone else said, handed them her license or whispered it. I understand the safety aspect of it, but if you act like she did then 🖕
Yeah that was real bitchy of her. It’s possible that her license isn’t up-to-date with her address (my address is from 5 houses ago; my state lets you keep the license until you renew it) but she still didn’t need to do all that.
>she slowly turns head and disgustingly looks me up and down
Wow. Way to make sure I really pay attention to make sure you (the woman) aren't a neighbor LOL
I went to pick up my 10 year old daughter the other day from an after school program. First day. They ask for the names of people that can pick her up.
I go to get her. I say Hi, I'm here to pick up xxxxxx... They go let me look. Then ask me if my name is xxxxxx.... Im like should I tell you my name first?
They didn't see a problem. Anyways, the name they gave was my adult sons name... I told yep thats me. They bring my daughter out and she goes that isn't my brother... Which started questions finally lol
Yeah, we have a personalized pin we enter to pick up our kids. If you forget the pin, you need to show your ID and prove you're a listed adult that's allowed to get the child.
Yeah, it’s annoying. My local pharmacy doesn’t do this, but the Walgreens I go to for 1 of my prescriptions does. I’m like, why do I have to yell it? Doctor’s office does the SAME thing along with needing me to yell my phone number.
I tried giving them my license, they won’t accept it and need me to SAY it. I don’t necessarily want everyone in the waiting room to know my address and phone number…there’s a lot of crazy people out there!
That would be so annoying. Sometimes I’m picking up prescriptions for pain killers or antibiotics after dental procedures and I’m not supposed to open my mouth. Thankfully my pharmacy is good about accepting my license along with me pointing at my mouth and mumbling “sowwy”.
They dont accept license??? Wtf do they do when a deaf person who doesn't speak or someone who's mute comes in??? Do they not get their medication? Bruh🤯
Yeah, I’m not sure what they do…I’ve seriously handed them my license before and they just told me “We need you to say your address”. They do the same thing at the doctor’s office.
Reminds me of one time when my wife was at a hardware store and told them my number for the points or whatever. Dude behind her starts hitting on her and saying now he’s got her number. She told him he was a creep and to call away because he’s gonna get a big burly bearded dude on the end.
I have issues with the same thing, except mine just loudly goes "you still live on X?"
Like if this was for "safety," and I wasn't who I said I was, wouldn't I just be able to say "yup!" and get my prescription!?
I don't see how loudly announcing/asking for people's addresses are helpful when there are so many other options to verify who you are. I don't even like the fact that I have to give my name and DOB verbally as well, especially in conjunction with having to give my address. Like how am I safe when anyone in a 10ft radius now has my name, birthdate AND address?
The thing is they could still give you the wrong meds in the right bag with your name, birthdate and address on it. So it really doesn't give health safety either.
Have you tried just handing over your driver's license? I didn't like saying my personal information out loud at my doctor's office and they said just show us your ID to keep yourself safe.
The aggravating part is that when the protocols were established, meaning what the front desk staff was required to ask to process the patient and "intake them into the system" ..... no one spoke up or was given the chance to say, "Hey, women are always at risk, can we create a system where they feel extra safe and we still get the information we need?
My ID has an address from several houses ago on it lol. You don’t need to keep that up-to-date if you still have time before renewing it, at least in my state.
My related peeve: when I check in at the doctor's office and they ask me why I need to see the doctor. Like, is it really necessary for me to disclose my medical issues in front of an entire waiting room of people? I'm sure no one wants to know that I have a boil on my ass or whatever.
When I was 20 and in schooling for my job (military), we weren't allowed to have our phones with us during the day. The clinic was only open during school hours, so if you needed to make a doctor's appointment, you had to ask the instructor and they would take you back to the instructor bay (big room, lots of cubicles, two to a cubicle). My abusive BF had just cheated on me and I wanted to get tested for STDs, and when my instructor brought me back there the older man she shared a cubicle with was at their desk. I called women's health and when they asked what I wanted an appointment for I just said I wanted a checkup. The lady on the phone kept asking me what I meant by "checkup" and was audibly getting more and more irritated when I just kept saying I needed a checkup and to speak to a doctor. Finally she rudely told me I had to tell her something other than "checkup" and I started crying and told her I needed an STD test.
One of the worst experiences of my life. Every time someone in healthcare disregards my privacy it pisses me off greatly bc of that.
I hate when any place asks me to publicly verify my address or phone number. I have been known to offer to write it down rather than say it out loud.
Also, fuck hotels who say, "You'll be in room ____." I will ride the elevator up and down and go back to the desk and make them change my room.
This. Every time I have to read my address aloud at the pharmacy I’m always thinking “are these people around me going to come to my house now”. Obviously it’s highly unlikely, but you never know who’s lurking.
Well that's just dumb! Even hotels won't even say "you're in room xxx" anymore. They'll write it on the little paper jacket and point to it, before they put your keycards in it.
I'm female, and traveled alone for work a lot, and always appreciated that extra precaution.
I mean, are you shouting it or saying it loudly? Most people the pharmacy line are not trying to pay attention and don't care, say it in a hushed voice.
Maybe they have to flagged in a system, I've only ever needed to provide the birthday of whomever I'm picking up for. Kids, GF, GFs son, as long as I provide that date, it's cool. I don't believe I've ever been asked my address or had to state the address.
I have made a card with my name and address on it. I normally use the drive through, so my sign is large enough for them to read. Works great. If I were inside, I'd just use my driver's license. As for the "for your safety". That's crap. It potentially exposes you to anyone nearby getting your address. NEVER say it out loud.
A cafe in our local shopping centre has an area for Jobcentre appointments, during 'job fairs' it extends out the cafe and into the public walkway. Even seen people having job interviews in the more public area. Weird walking past and hearing people give personal info from NI numbers to birthdays and addresses. Can't be safe. Wouldn't be hard for someone to hang around with their moby recording in their pocket. Sketchy af if you ask me.
They did this to me and I had the same uncomfortable feeling. Everybody looked at it like it was no big deal. Everybody behind me in line then knew where lived.
Yes they piss me off too with a lack of privacy. I have to take medicine through a shot for specific reasons and constantly have to ask for more needles and then they're like why ? Um because math. Look at my prescription and tell me how many I need to finish. Ok well insurance only pays for this many. Well like the last several times I'll buy them and you can stop asking as the medicine is really popular these days and I would rather people think I'm trying to be young again then know my real problem but my preference would be to keep this between us and not having people I might interact with at work think I'm a creep or a drug addict.
Its even worse when you've gotta verify your social security number for somethings. Its like damn, you really want me to shout that shit into the phone? With my address? Thats wild.
Most “security” is really just security theater, it might make things seem safer but it really doesn’t make things safer, and in cases like this, can actually make things worse…
Does your drivers license have your current address on it? Just walk up and hand them that. Much less weird than giving an index card with your address
You know what i dont like? Is when they say very loudly what narcotic prescription your getting while the druggies are wandering close by. One time a guy followed me too closely out the store, i ran and locked my doors and started honking my horn. Like wtf have some discretion for our safety.
Years back a stranger followed my then neighbor home after picking up a pain med prescription and knocked on her door asking if she could buy some.
So yeah you have a good point here, apparently stuff like this happens.
Very irritating.
I also hate it when you're checking into an urgent care or walk-in clinic and they expect you to loudly announce why you're there in front of the entire waiting room.
what? oh good god no. my pharmacy makes us say nothing aloud. i pick up a controlled substance and they don’t even say that, just “were you picking up the one that starts with “a” or the “d” one” it’s adderall and there isn’t a d one. it’s wonderful. i’m really grateful. it’s the only time i don’t feel safe.
i don’t even know if my non-shipment pharmacies have my address. weird.
I’ve often thought this is a silly way of doing things, I think instead people should carry an address card that can be shown to the pharmacist so that the entire pharmacy do not hear where you live. It would only take for the wrong person to be behind you and they have instant access to you/ your home. Stupid really when you think of the world we live in.
In the UK we have to say our first line of address and typing that into Google can give anyone access to stalk you, or whatever they want to do with it. Basically you can find out where the stranger infront of you lives. Most people wouldn’t do anything with that but some will obviously!
Doctors office in room full of people address and phone also when would years ago buy traveller's checks would be asked out loud if going on vacation
Why yes I wanted to say would you like the dates so u know when to break in??
They asked my wife for her phone number with a line of strangers behind her. She tried to whisper it.
Pharmacist: I couldn’t hear you.
Me: You need a better system then, because she’s not announcing it to the whole store. Her ID is identity enough.
They have done this so many times at doctor offices and Sonora quest. They literally read my FULL fucking address and my apartment number AND my phone number. It makes me want to say something as I’m a young woman and I don’t need my address being announced. I’ve had other offices just ask if I can confirm the street number and that’s a lot better.
Silently hand them your driver's license or state id. Let them know you don't feel safe announcing your address out loud in public. They should assign us all customer id numbers. I don't blame you for feeling this way. It is not a safe practice. There are identity theives and other even worse criminals out there that could be hanging around listening to these little tidbits of personal information.
They’ve never asked me my address….that would be result in me not getting my meds if they required me to publicly announce my address, as in picking up adderall! LMAO I’d be robbed for sure.
If you're not cool with saying it out loud, just let them know and either provide your ID and say that's the address or have a piece of paper in hand and write it down and hand it to them.
Either way if they aren't complete jerks they will allow you to provide the information by writing it down instead of saying it.
Sounds like Walgreens. 🙄 Before I moved my prescriptions, I would always refuse to answer aloud and show my driving license. For some reason, Walgreens’ policies are usually stupid and their pharmacists are absolutely terrible and useless. When they started gatekeeping vaccines I just transferred out and washed my hands of them.
FFS. We used to have free phone books delivered to our door each year that had everyone’s full name, including their middle name, address, and in my hometown, oftentimes the kids’ names too, especially if they had a “teen line” in the 90s.
No one cares about you or your address.
Everyone is in their own sphere of issues and needs.
Our society lives in a bit too much fear nowadays. Yes I understand safety concerns and terrible things can and do happen, but are we really at the point now that we need to operate under the assumption that random shoppers at the pharmacy are gonna come after us?
I have a person in my house on a prescription for a controlled substance that is very desirable, easily sold for good money, and in short supply. No one else in the store full of strangers needs to know what I’m picking up and where I’m taking it.
I fully understand what you mean. I was taking care of my ex once he was determined to be terminal. When I picked up his meds, I asked what I needed to know about the new ones. The pharmacist said these are the kinds of meds you don't want anyone to know are in your house. They were very cautious about anyone knowing what I was picking up.
in the US, if someone googles your name, there are like 50 websites that come up with your address on them. the pharmacy is your least concern when it comes to crazy people or stalkers
Yes, yes, I know about the phone book. But there’s also porn online free of charge, and yet there are men out there who get on public transportation and masturbate at women.
No, I think that’s why they’re not concerned. No one is robbing you from hearing your address at the pharmacy.
This is in the same category as people who think they’re being followed at target because human traffickers are stealing babies.
That’s not how human trafficking works, and this isn’t how people get robbed.
It’s not about someone following you specifically to the pharmacy to find out your address. It’s about someone who just happens to be at the pharmacy and thinks, huh. That lady looks cute/rich/weak/gullible/a lot like a woman who turned me down once/just got 30 days of opiates and makes a choice.
People don’t follow you around waiting til you leave your car door unlocked so they can swipe your change and sunglasses, they go around testing car doors until they find an open one.
I just hand them my drivers license. It's ridiculous to say your full name and any amount of persona/ confidential information with an audience of strangers gathered within earshot. They need new protocols.
It is for “your safety.” It’s an identity verification beyond name (which can be similar). As much as it’s about someone else not getting your meds, it’s about you not inadvertently getting someone else’s meds (presumably something you don’t and shouldn’t take)…
And better than half the time the answer to “what are you picking up?” Is “I don’t know, my Dr called it in” or “the same thing I always get” or my favorite “it’s my [incomprehensible mispronunciation of drug name]… the little white one” or “my heart pill” (which heart pill? And do you mean your blood thinner, your cholesterol med, your blood pressure med, your antiarhythmic, or the Xanax you take when you get panic attacks that makes your heart race and gives you chest pain and so you call it a heart pill)…. You ask a verifiable question that you can be reasonably sure the patient will be able to answer correctly and that is (hopefully) unique to them
I get that, but the whole purpose of this practice to begin with was a way to identify that you are indeed the patient prescribed because painkiller theft from pharmacies was *rampant* at the time. Any other effects after pharmacies started doing it are incidental.
No one is listening. And if they are, there are plenty of ways to find you. They can just listen for your name then look up your address if they want. The odds of someone listening and using it as info they could not otherwise gather (or just follow you) are SOOO incredibly low it’s not worth thinking about. If someone is stalking you, they’re going to be able to find this info anyway. And most crimes are crimes of opportunity not someone sneaking around the pharmacy trying to hear the address of a random person.
If you live in the US, your address is probably public record anyway. You can buy plat books that show who owns every parcel of land in your county and you can go online and see where people are registered to vote. Type your name into freepeoplesearch.com and see what comes up
Because OP is announcing *their* home address in a crowded pharmacy. Where any creep within earshot could jot in down and follow them. I get followed in the grocery store at least once a month. Plenty of women do. And we all know the drill. Stay in the crowded areas. Make circles to verify that they are in fact following you. Have security walk you to your car if you need to leave before you get them to lose interest. And make sure to drive a roundabout way home to confirm they’re not following you. I cannot imagine how terrifying it would be if one of those men overheard my home address and decided to wait for me there instead
Women are taught to identify someone following them, basic steps to shake a tail, and to drive to the nearest police station if that fails. From the time we’re teenagers. Works well to prevent someone from following you home. Doesn’t do shit against someone with your address.
*you better shut the fuck up if you’re an ignorant little asshole*
Exactly! It’s all good for everyone to know. But generally speaking, women are way more likely to have been taught it than men because we are so much more likely to be targeted
*you better shut the fuck up if you’re an ignorant little asshole*
well I'm not so I'll keep talking
I am 57 and give my address OUTLOUD at the pharmacy every time I pick up ... and so do all the woman of all ages before me and after me in line
I mean what I said ... can't live in such fear ... no one is waiting at your house cause they just heard your address
Are all precautions stupid? Or just the ones you personally don’t bother with? Should I leave my drink unattended at a bar? Stop wearing a seatbelt? Throw out my fire extinguisher? Meet Tinder dates at their house? Take the lights off my bike? Give my phone number to the stranger at the bus stop?
I don’t like the position the pharmacy is putting me in, and I really don’t like that they’re citing “safety” as their reasoning.
It’s weird that it bothers you so much that someone wouldn’t want to share their address aloud.
Constant paranoia, like being followed in the grocery store? I zig zag thought the aisles and see the same people whenever I'm shopping. Must mean that I'm stalking them.
I asked about confirming my address with my pharmacy, and it turns out they only need the first part.
Only the numerical part at the very beginning.
FYI
For those asking about DOB, we have tons of patients with the same DOB. How is someone with a similar name going to accidentally give us your address? They’re not, this is safer.
they probably just don’t realize the sheer amount of different people we sell prescriptions to. i’d rather say my address than get stuck in a med mix-up, not fun at all
Welcome to living in a society where lawyers control everything because no one takes responsibility for anything.
What's odd about this post is the OP is annoyed at he vendor for being certain they're giving the right drugs to the right person, for safety reasons, but the OP doesn't want to give out the address...for safety reasons...in case someone is in earshot and decides on the spur of the moment to rob and murder them.
People really need to turn off media. All of outdoors isn't the dystopian crime city that the news outlets and other media want you to think.
I wonder how many people on here complaining about their first world problems, support lawyers suing the hell out of anything and everything possible. It used to be the American Dream was to own a home. Then that fantasy got taken away by reality, and it became winning the lottery. Now it's to get rich by suing someone.
That's why I only ask for name and birthday.
The only time I'd ask for address is if they couldn't say birthday and there was noone else around.
Tbh even then imo it's better to check the postcode/zip code than first line of the address
My pharmacy delivers and they’re always running up to the first person they see going “Prescriptions for GanethLey?” And I complained several times that they’re going to get someone’s life-saving meds stolen by “verifying” that way.
it sounds like you already have a solution. just write your address on a piece of paper to show them.
you'r suspicions that people will think you are paranoid or stupid for writing your address on paper are holding you back from following your own idea that is already the exact solution to your problem.
You think the possibility that maybe someone will think you are stupid (but they probably dont even care because they're busy thinking about themselves) over-rides your desire to not announce your address out loud and give away where you live to everyone in the area?
Address? Usually it's name and birthday. They may have you sign a piece of paper depending on the prescription. Dude, you got a weird pharmacy. Might wanna change to a new one.
I've had 1st ammendment auditors recording in the VA Hospital Lobby while staff are yelling across the room to each other about my medical issue, loudly asking my name and birthday.
I have never been asked for my address other than to verify their records are correct. They just want a name and date of birth. Hell I can even pick up my wife's medication, and she can pick up mine with just that information and nothing else.
I tend to speak just loud enough to be hear by the person directly next to me but quiet enough that nobody else can hear me so I never really think much about people overhearing. I can’t even hear the people at the counter in front of me.
address? That's odd. Mine asks for my birthday.
I always get asked for bday and address. But also where I go, the people are supposed to wait about 5 to 10 feet back. Even have a "stop here" sign.
>supposed to Key words. Mfs out here standing 2" away from you like they're your shadow.
Not to mention that you have to speak loudly enough to be heard through the covid glass.
Literally that one Baki scene
I pass my driver's license over, so I don't need to say it out loud.
Exactly!!!
Ours used to ask, but recently started to ask to see drivers license instead, wonder if they changed rules because of safety?
Came here to say this and that what they ask for depends on state. NY makes you verify address and last 4 of phone. I pass my license to the clerk and the pay pad asks for the numbers, so I just punch em in.
This is a great idea.
It's a good thing sound stops after 5 ft
Also, 5-10 feet is still plenty close enough to hear. I hate it.
Maybe it’s a Walgreens thing.
I use the pharmacy at the hospital where I work, and they also ask for DOB and address. I hate it.
It is! Safeway where I used to go or the compounding one never did. I don’t like doing it either unless I’m in a drive thru
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I worked in the Walgreens pharmacy, they ask for you’re name and birth date. Never asked to verify an address out loud.
I picked up my mom's prescriptions a week ago at a Walgreens. Address and phone number are what they asked me for.
They ask for different information at different times at the Walgreen's by me. Sometimes phone number, sometimes address. This is after providing name and date of birth.
This is particularly annoying to me. Address. Birthday. Oh, and I've got to hand them my driver's license for certain medications. Like - isn't that all on the card I just handed you with my picture on it without me having to announce it to the rest of the people waiting in line?
During mandatory covid masking I wrote the information in my notes app and held it up so I wouldn't have to yell it out through mask/plexiglass. I still do it that way. No complaints yet, and several pharmacy techs have even commented that they appreciate me doing it that way.
Pharm tech here! The license is a requirement for controlled meds. We don’t like it either, it’s time consuming .
What if you are homeless and you only have a state issued ID with your picture and no address then what do you do?
I wonder if they’d let OP verify with DOB instead by request
i have to do both. they ask last name and date of birth to look me up, and then once they grab my prescription they ask me to verify my address. getting prescriptions in college was kinda annoying because i had a new address each year and sometimes i didn’t remember which one they had on record
Every medical or medical related setting I’ve ever been in makes me verify my birthday. Address is strange.
Yea, I've never been asked for address at the pharmacy. Has to be a regional thing? It's always been birthday only unless it's a controlled substance they require ID and don't ask for anything else.
Bday lets them find you in the system. Address verified it’s the correct person. Three data points make an accurate line. Two don’t.
Mine asks for both.
I get asked full name and birthday that's it.
Same
I have a very complicated last name it involves spelling it over and over. I just hand them my license and tell them everything they need is right there. They are so happy I do that lol
I also whip out the license! 😃
I would also recommend OP use a driver's license or other ID for this purpose if possible.
Yeah that’s not cool. I’ve had the pharmacist announce loudly on 2 separate occasions “When you’re getting a prescription for OPIATES…”. I don’t even recall what she was saying, but the point being, I didn’t want it announced that I was getting pain pills. Switched pharmacies after that.
Hi sir, your NARCOTICS are ready! Do you still live at 555 Oak Lane? Have you gotten that broken lock fixed yet? Not yet? Okay, here ya go!
Yeah really. I have a long time Rx in this category and they just asked me to say my phone number out loud before I could purchase at the POS. There are private consult areas (mine has a closed door vaccine/consult room for example) or one could write the private info down and slide across the counter, if uncomfortable or feeling others are within earshot. I am aware that some of these drugs, people get robbed or killed for on the street. Pharmacies are used to being discreet and requests for privacy - such as administering a restricted med daily. About 12 years ago I was in a pharmacy in NY when they were held up for their painkillers. I felt so bad for the obviously traumatized pharmacist. The robber simply wanted his fix and was caught next door. Soon after that, laws and policies changed. Now these types of drugs are in timed safes, etc. In other words, it’s worth being cautious. This is your private personal and medical information.
wow i never considered all that. i always feel bad for pharmacists, they’re over worked understaffed and constantly yelled at. especially after covid. but of course there’s a fear of robbery, like how did i not consider? it just adds that extra layer of anxiety everyday, like working 3rd shift at a gas station i wonder if it’s appropriate to bring them cookies or something lol, they deserve a treat
I lived in an area with lots of elderly people who weren’t too rich. They’d also get the added stress of trying be a social worker to the 80 year old widow who is broke but will die without her diabetes medication and is just crying not knowing what to do. I was always happy when they’d try to help even if it was busy- but I witnessed it frequently enough that it must be pretty common.
"What prescription are you here to pick up?" Sir it's midnight, can you please not make me announce to everyone in this Walgreens that I am currently getting my adderall...
**”John Smith, your gonorrhea medicine is ready! Please come up to the pharmacy window and confirm that you still live at 100 Main Street, Springfield, IL!”**
I have called and complained to our local Walgreens about that. They had a sign stating if you are picking up a controlled substance, they would ask for your address. OK, let the junkies know not only who has the good stuff, but where to get it from. They said they would take it under advisement. Now they just ask everyone for their address.
Oh — I just transferred to a different pharmacy after the same thing happened to me. I even asked the pharmacist what was wrong with them and if they were trying to get me mugged in the parking lot or something.
That’s a little over the top - it’s probably company policy. How would you like it if you were doing your job and someone said “what’s wrong with you?!?”
I’d probably like it more than I’d like finding out that “doing my job” got someone mugged
I don’t care if they like it. They should be communicating customer concerns to their superiors. And if the higher ups don’t change the policy, they can refer to it as one of the reasons revenue is down.
I heard a pharmacist loudly talk about someone's estrogen pills for HRT who was trans. We were talking to her in line and I was pretty sure she was but yeah, pharmacist just confirmed it to everyone. That could be really dangerous for her. Edit: and that was really dangerous for you too, someone could have mugged you for your pills.
Reading these comments is stunning to me. The lack of regard for patient safety is just so... startling. I hope the trans person you were with didn't feel singled out in some way. It seems so mean-spirited for them to do that. I have controlled meds because of a spinal injury. I've never experienced the kinds of things being described here.
They actually cannot do that. Make a statement like that I mean. I thought that was a federal thing, but it could depend on state. Do that here in NY and say hello to a fine after I file a complaint. That's a good way to get someone jacked up in the parking lot.
they ask me "and you still live on \[my street name\]?" call me paranoid, but i don't really want everyone around knowing the street i live on? and since they asked me first it's not even for security because i could just lie. why! just give me my pills that i'm using to treat the paranoia that *you're* exacerbating!
this is not how they’re supposed to be asking, i was explicitly taught to ask open-ended questions for this and to not give them the answer and ask for a yes or no since people can easily mishear or just nod when they don’t know the address at all
That isn't as bad as me being forced to announce my new address while in court when being a domestic violence victim. I was like well here's my address-- y'all better get ready to send the coroner there tonight if you don't give him jail time now because you're essentially signing my death warrant. (Obviously he got prison time) I now know you can request to give the court your address in writing to avoid that kind of situation, but they didn't bother to tell me back then.
I think the proper response would be, "Your honor, i'd prefer not to tell the defendant and his family and friends where I'm hiding from him and am offended the court suggested it."
Absolutely. If I had the knowledge and confidence then that I have now, I wouldn't have even been there in the first place. Hindsight and all. But thanks for trying to make sure that the former domestic violence victim felt worse about being victimized super awesome of you.
My doctor’s office does this. Name, DOB, address and phone number. I don’t want to announce it to the entire waiting room.
I'm so glad my doctors office just asks if we're still at the same address and have the same phone number
The chain labs are notorious for this too. Had at least one call for this info across the waiting room at me while I was seated. Seriously?!
I was in a lab waiting to be seen, and while a woman was checking in, the clerk called someone and very loudly asked what code she should use for an aids test. I could not believe it.
That’s crazy!
Lol the urgent care clinics around me always make me tell them my issue out loud at the desk in front of everyone in the lobby. It doesn’t matter that I filled out everything online already and they could just read it… they don’t read
It’s never really bothered me and 95% of the time there’s one other person in line. Most people use the drive up. But one day I’m standing in line behind a mom and her daughter what seemed like forever because I’ve watched several videos and I’m not really paying attention just waiting for her to be done. The pharmacists asked her to confirm her address, she slowly turns head and disgustingly looks me up and down and then whispers it. I get what OP and everyone is saying but the ignorant way she looked at me just really pissed me off. She obviously knew I was there, she could’ve just simply like someone else said, handed them her license or whispered it. I understand the safety aspect of it, but if you act like she did then 🖕
Yeah that was real bitchy of her. It’s possible that her license isn’t up-to-date with her address (my address is from 5 houses ago; my state lets you keep the license until you renew it) but she still didn’t need to do all that.
>she slowly turns head and disgustingly looks me up and down Wow. Way to make sure I really pay attention to make sure you (the woman) aren't a neighbor LOL
I went to pick up my 10 year old daughter the other day from an after school program. First day. They ask for the names of people that can pick her up. I go to get her. I say Hi, I'm here to pick up xxxxxx... They go let me look. Then ask me if my name is xxxxxx.... Im like should I tell you my name first? They didn't see a problem. Anyways, the name they gave was my adult sons name... I told yep thats me. They bring my daughter out and she goes that isn't my brother... Which started questions finally lol
Yeah, we have a personalized pin we enter to pick up our kids. If you forget the pin, you need to show your ID and prove you're a listed adult that's allowed to get the child.
Yeah, it’s annoying. My local pharmacy doesn’t do this, but the Walgreens I go to for 1 of my prescriptions does. I’m like, why do I have to yell it? Doctor’s office does the SAME thing along with needing me to yell my phone number. I tried giving them my license, they won’t accept it and need me to SAY it. I don’t necessarily want everyone in the waiting room to know my address and phone number…there’s a lot of crazy people out there!
That would be so annoying. Sometimes I’m picking up prescriptions for pain killers or antibiotics after dental procedures and I’m not supposed to open my mouth. Thankfully my pharmacy is good about accepting my license along with me pointing at my mouth and mumbling “sowwy”.
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They dont accept license??? Wtf do they do when a deaf person who doesn't speak or someone who's mute comes in??? Do they not get their medication? Bruh🤯
Yeah, I’m not sure what they do…I’ve seriously handed them my license before and they just told me “We need you to say your address”. They do the same thing at the doctor’s office.
Reminds me of one time when my wife was at a hardware store and told them my number for the points or whatever. Dude behind her starts hitting on her and saying now he’s got her number. She told him he was a creep and to call away because he’s gonna get a big burly bearded dude on the end.
I have issues with the same thing, except mine just loudly goes "you still live on X?" Like if this was for "safety," and I wasn't who I said I was, wouldn't I just be able to say "yup!" and get my prescription!? I don't see how loudly announcing/asking for people's addresses are helpful when there are so many other options to verify who you are. I don't even like the fact that I have to give my name and DOB verbally as well, especially in conjunction with having to give my address. Like how am I safe when anyone in a 10ft radius now has my name, birthdate AND address?
It’s for your HEALTH SAFETY so they don’t give you the wrong pills. I agree it’s stupid and annoying but they’re not taking about criminal safety
The thing is they could still give you the wrong meds in the right bag with your name, birthdate and address on it. So it really doesn't give health safety either.
Not getting unalived by a crackhead is definitely part of HEALTH SAFETY
I've never once been asked for my address. only my birthday.
“For your safety, please verify your pharmacist license number and not publicly violate HIPAA with people standing around next to me.”
Yeah I hate when the pharmacy asks you to say your name, address and postcode for everyone to hear. There has to be a better way.
When I worked in retail we just asked for name and DOB
Have you tried just handing over your driver's license? I didn't like saying my personal information out loud at my doctor's office and they said just show us your ID to keep yourself safe.
That's what I'd do personally, should be more than enough "proof" for em
The aggravating part is that when the protocols were established, meaning what the front desk staff was required to ask to process the patient and "intake them into the system" ..... no one spoke up or was given the chance to say, "Hey, women are always at risk, can we create a system where they feel extra safe and we still get the information we need?
My ID has an address from several houses ago on it lol. You don’t need to keep that up-to-date if you still have time before renewing it, at least in my state.
My related peeve: when I check in at the doctor's office and they ask me why I need to see the doctor. Like, is it really necessary for me to disclose my medical issues in front of an entire waiting room of people? I'm sure no one wants to know that I have a boil on my ass or whatever.
When I was 20 and in schooling for my job (military), we weren't allowed to have our phones with us during the day. The clinic was only open during school hours, so if you needed to make a doctor's appointment, you had to ask the instructor and they would take you back to the instructor bay (big room, lots of cubicles, two to a cubicle). My abusive BF had just cheated on me and I wanted to get tested for STDs, and when my instructor brought me back there the older man she shared a cubicle with was at their desk. I called women's health and when they asked what I wanted an appointment for I just said I wanted a checkup. The lady on the phone kept asking me what I meant by "checkup" and was audibly getting more and more irritated when I just kept saying I needed a checkup and to speak to a doctor. Finally she rudely told me I had to tell her something other than "checkup" and I started crying and told her I needed an STD test. One of the worst experiences of my life. Every time someone in healthcare disregards my privacy it pisses me off greatly bc of that.
I hate when any place asks me to publicly verify my address or phone number. I have been known to offer to write it down rather than say it out loud. Also, fuck hotels who say, "You'll be in room ____." I will ride the elevator up and down and go back to the desk and make them change my room.
This. Every time I have to read my address aloud at the pharmacy I’m always thinking “are these people around me going to come to my house now”. Obviously it’s highly unlikely, but you never know who’s lurking.
Well that's just dumb! Even hotels won't even say "you're in room xxx" anymore. They'll write it on the little paper jacket and point to it, before they put your keycards in it. I'm female, and traveled alone for work a lot, and always appreciated that extra precaution.
I mean, are you shouting it or saying it loudly? Most people the pharmacy line are not trying to pay attention and don't care, say it in a hushed voice.
Maybe they have to flagged in a system, I've only ever needed to provide the birthday of whomever I'm picking up for. Kids, GF, GFs son, as long as I provide that date, it's cool. I don't believe I've ever been asked my address or had to state the address.
I have made a card with my name and address on it. I normally use the drive through, so my sign is large enough for them to read. Works great. If I were inside, I'd just use my driver's license. As for the "for your safety". That's crap. It potentially exposes you to anyone nearby getting your address. NEVER say it out loud.
A cafe in our local shopping centre has an area for Jobcentre appointments, during 'job fairs' it extends out the cafe and into the public walkway. Even seen people having job interviews in the more public area. Weird walking past and hearing people give personal info from NI numbers to birthdays and addresses. Can't be safe. Wouldn't be hard for someone to hang around with their moby recording in their pocket. Sketchy af if you ask me.
They did this to me and I had the same uncomfortable feeling. Everybody looked at it like it was no big deal. Everybody behind me in line then knew where lived.
Write it out..I did that once when a creepy guy had been standing about and kept chatting at me. The cashier said, "I understand why".
Yes they piss me off too with a lack of privacy. I have to take medicine through a shot for specific reasons and constantly have to ask for more needles and then they're like why ? Um because math. Look at my prescription and tell me how many I need to finish. Ok well insurance only pays for this many. Well like the last several times I'll buy them and you can stop asking as the medicine is really popular these days and I would rather people think I'm trying to be young again then know my real problem but my preference would be to keep this between us and not having people I might interact with at work think I'm a creep or a drug addict.
Its even worse when you've gotta verify your social security number for somethings. Its like damn, you really want me to shout that shit into the phone? With my address? Thats wild.
Most “security” is really just security theater, it might make things seem safer but it really doesn’t make things safer, and in cases like this, can actually make things worse…
Does your drivers license have your current address on it? Just walk up and hand them that. Much less weird than giving an index card with your address
You know what i dont like? Is when they say very loudly what narcotic prescription your getting while the druggies are wandering close by. One time a guy followed me too closely out the store, i ran and locked my doors and started honking my horn. Like wtf have some discretion for our safety.
Years back a stranger followed my then neighbor home after picking up a pain med prescription and knocked on her door asking if she could buy some. So yeah you have a good point here, apparently stuff like this happens.
Very irritating. I also hate it when you're checking into an urgent care or walk-in clinic and they expect you to loudly announce why you're there in front of the entire waiting room.
what? oh good god no. my pharmacy makes us say nothing aloud. i pick up a controlled substance and they don’t even say that, just “were you picking up the one that starts with “a” or the “d” one” it’s adderall and there isn’t a d one. it’s wonderful. i’m really grateful. it’s the only time i don’t feel safe. i don’t even know if my non-shipment pharmacies have my address. weird.
I’ve often thought this is a silly way of doing things, I think instead people should carry an address card that can be shown to the pharmacist so that the entire pharmacy do not hear where you live. It would only take for the wrong person to be behind you and they have instant access to you/ your home. Stupid really when you think of the world we live in. In the UK we have to say our first line of address and typing that into Google can give anyone access to stalk you, or whatever they want to do with it. Basically you can find out where the stranger infront of you lives. Most people wouldn’t do anything with that but some will obviously!
Doctors office in room full of people address and phone also when would years ago buy traveller's checks would be asked out loud if going on vacation Why yes I wanted to say would you like the dates so u know when to break in??
They asked my wife for her phone number with a line of strangers behind her. She tried to whisper it. Pharmacist: I couldn’t hear you. Me: You need a better system then, because she’s not announcing it to the whole store. Her ID is identity enough.
I get asked the same at my pharmacy but it's usually "are you still on X street?"
They always ask for my address, but I have it as my PO box, so it's not a safety issue for me. Plus, I always use the drive-thru.
I have never heard of this policy and I've picked up prescriptions from Kroger, CVS and Walmart pharmacies for over 30-years.
I just get asked for my birthday, that's incredibly personal to ask for an address ?
They have done this so many times at doctor offices and Sonora quest. They literally read my FULL fucking address and my apartment number AND my phone number. It makes me want to say something as I’m a young woman and I don’t need my address being announced. I’ve had other offices just ask if I can confirm the street number and that’s a lot better.
As a woman living alone, no. The answer is no, so let's use another method "for my security."
Silently hand them your driver's license or state id. Let them know you don't feel safe announcing your address out loud in public. They should assign us all customer id numbers. I don't blame you for feeling this way. It is not a safe practice. There are identity theives and other even worse criminals out there that could be hanging around listening to these little tidbits of personal information.
They’ve never asked me my address….that would be result in me not getting my meds if they required me to publicly announce my address, as in picking up adderall! LMAO I’d be robbed for sure.
I notice that too at Walgreens & CVS, and I don’t like it either. There has to be a better way to confirm that.
Walgreens where I live does it too. It annoys me so much!
Mt FILs pharmacy does the same, and he lives with us. It makes me seriously uncomfortable as well. Especially due to the crime rate in our area.
Oh this is absolutely infuriating and I fight against it every time because it is dangerous.
If you're not cool with saying it out loud, just let them know and either provide your ID and say that's the address or have a piece of paper in hand and write it down and hand it to them. Either way if they aren't complete jerks they will allow you to provide the information by writing it down instead of saying it.
It was said in one of the comments the pharmacy wouldn’t take their ID, they had to say it out loud.
That is absolutely ridiculous!
Just hand them your driver’s license. Easy fix. Never have to deal with this again.
Sounds like Walgreens. 🙄 Before I moved my prescriptions, I would always refuse to answer aloud and show my driving license. For some reason, Walgreens’ policies are usually stupid and their pharmacists are absolutely terrible and useless. When they started gatekeeping vaccines I just transferred out and washed my hands of them.
FFS. We used to have free phone books delivered to our door each year that had everyone’s full name, including their middle name, address, and in my hometown, oftentimes the kids’ names too, especially if they had a “teen line” in the 90s. No one cares about you or your address. Everyone is in their own sphere of issues and needs.
Our society lives in a bit too much fear nowadays. Yes I understand safety concerns and terrible things can and do happen, but are we really at the point now that we need to operate under the assumption that random shoppers at the pharmacy are gonna come after us?
I have a person in my house on a prescription for a controlled substance that is very desirable, easily sold for good money, and in short supply. No one else in the store full of strangers needs to know what I’m picking up and where I’m taking it.
I fully understand what you mean. I was taking care of my ex once he was determined to be terminal. When I picked up his meds, I asked what I needed to know about the new ones. The pharmacist said these are the kinds of meds you don't want anyone to know are in your house. They were very cautious about anyone knowing what I was picking up.
in the US, if someone googles your name, there are like 50 websites that come up with your address on them. the pharmacy is your least concern when it comes to crazy people or stalkers
Yes, yes, I know about the phone book. But there’s also porn online free of charge, and yet there are men out there who get on public transportation and masturbate at women.
I wonder if any of these people have met with real danger.
why assume that isn't WHY they are concerned?
No, I think that’s why they’re not concerned. No one is robbing you from hearing your address at the pharmacy. This is in the same category as people who think they’re being followed at target because human traffickers are stealing babies. That’s not how human trafficking works, and this isn’t how people get robbed.
I gotta agree. If someone really wants your address, there are easier ways of going about it than following you to the pharmacy and eavesdropping.
It’s not about someone following you specifically to the pharmacy to find out your address. It’s about someone who just happens to be at the pharmacy and thinks, huh. That lady looks cute/rich/weak/gullible/a lot like a woman who turned me down once/just got 30 days of opiates and makes a choice. People don’t follow you around waiting til you leave your car door unlocked so they can swipe your change and sunglasses, they go around testing car doors until they find an open one.
There used to be a book handed out to homeowners that had the name and address of everyone in the town….
Mine asks for name/bday/phone #/ and address. Ugh!!
I just hand them my drivers license. It's ridiculous to say your full name and any amount of persona/ confidential information with an audience of strangers gathered within earshot. They need new protocols.
So if you’re homeless, you can’t fill a prescription
You do not have to and I hope more people remind them of privacy laws.
It's not for your safety, it's to make sure someone else isn't getting your prescription.
It is for “your safety.” It’s an identity verification beyond name (which can be similar). As much as it’s about someone else not getting your meds, it’s about you not inadvertently getting someone else’s meds (presumably something you don’t and shouldn’t take)…
>it’s about you not inadvertently getting someone else’s meds That's why they ask you to confirm what meds you're getting.
And better than half the time the answer to “what are you picking up?” Is “I don’t know, my Dr called it in” or “the same thing I always get” or my favorite “it’s my [incomprehensible mispronunciation of drug name]… the little white one” or “my heart pill” (which heart pill? And do you mean your blood thinner, your cholesterol med, your blood pressure med, your antiarhythmic, or the Xanax you take when you get panic attacks that makes your heart race and gives you chest pain and so you call it a heart pill)…. You ask a verifiable question that you can be reasonably sure the patient will be able to answer correctly and that is (hopefully) unique to them
It's not for patient safety lol, I'm sorry you work in a town with an average IQ below room temperature, but most of us don't.
there’s no shortage of people who have no idea what’s going on or who they are, i promise 😭
I get that, but the whole purpose of this practice to begin with was a way to identify that you are indeed the patient prescribed because painkiller theft from pharmacies was *rampant* at the time. Any other effects after pharmacies started doing it are incidental.
I mean your not wrong, but it is kind of paranoid.
No one is listening. And if they are, there are plenty of ways to find you. They can just listen for your name then look up your address if they want. The odds of someone listening and using it as info they could not otherwise gather (or just follow you) are SOOO incredibly low it’s not worth thinking about. If someone is stalking you, they’re going to be able to find this info anyway. And most crimes are crimes of opportunity not someone sneaking around the pharmacy trying to hear the address of a random person.
You don’t have to yell it. Lean forward and confirm in a low voice.
If you live in the US, your address is probably public record anyway. You can buy plat books that show who owns every parcel of land in your county and you can go online and see where people are registered to vote. Type your name into freepeoplesearch.com and see what comes up
I can literally drive down a street and get addresses off mailboxes ... how is announcing yours gonna be unsafe?
Because OP is announcing *their* home address in a crowded pharmacy. Where any creep within earshot could jot in down and follow them. I get followed in the grocery store at least once a month. Plenty of women do. And we all know the drill. Stay in the crowded areas. Make circles to verify that they are in fact following you. Have security walk you to your car if you need to leave before you get them to lose interest. And make sure to drive a roundabout way home to confirm they’re not following you. I cannot imagine how terrifying it would be if one of those men overheard my home address and decided to wait for me there instead
um I can follow anyone without their address ... I could just follow them *you better never go out If you're this scared*
Women are taught to identify someone following them, basic steps to shake a tail, and to drive to the nearest police station if that fails. From the time we’re teenagers. Works well to prevent someone from following you home. Doesn’t do shit against someone with your address. *you better shut the fuck up if you’re an ignorant little asshole*
I was taught this same stuff as a teenager and I’m not female
Exactly! It’s all good for everyone to know. But generally speaking, women are way more likely to have been taught it than men because we are so much more likely to be targeted
Either way, it seems like anyone is targeted these days for anything.
*you better shut the fuck up if you’re an ignorant little asshole* well I'm not so I'll keep talking I am 57 and give my address OUTLOUD at the pharmacy every time I pick up ... and so do all the woman of all ages before me and after me in line I mean what I said ... can't live in such fear ... no one is waiting at your house cause they just heard your address
Are all precautions stupid? Or just the ones you personally don’t bother with? Should I leave my drink unattended at a bar? Stop wearing a seatbelt? Throw out my fire extinguisher? Meet Tinder dates at their house? Take the lights off my bike? Give my phone number to the stranger at the bus stop? I don’t like the position the pharmacy is putting me in, and I really don’t like that they’re citing “safety” as their reasoning. It’s weird that it bothers you so much that someone wouldn’t want to share their address aloud.
the safety is so that someone else doesn't pick up your meds surely you understood that right ?
So...Are all precautions stupid? Or just the ones you personally don’t bother with?
needless ones are yes
As decided by what? (There's another one)
They aren't ignorant you are just triggered.
Constant paranoia, like being followed in the grocery store? I zig zag thought the aisles and see the same people whenever I'm shopping. Must mean that I'm stalking them.
I'm a female and I just want my pills no one's got the time to follow you home
Case in point!
“Why are you worried about creeps?” *Immediately proceeds to be hella fucking creepy*
Lmao right. “I could just follow them”. Wtf man
I asked about confirming my address with my pharmacy, and it turns out they only need the first part. Only the numerical part at the very beginning. FYI
They make you announce it? Like with a megaphone or something?
You know you can show them your ID, right?
For those asking about DOB, we have tons of patients with the same DOB. How is someone with a similar name going to accidentally give us your address? They’re not, this is safer.
they probably just don’t realize the sheer amount of different people we sell prescriptions to. i’d rather say my address than get stuck in a med mix-up, not fun at all
Instead of pet peeves they should call this site petty peeves.
Hot take, but most likely, nobody is paying attention or cares where you live. I just hope you never give the staff a hard time about it.
Why don't you feel safe in your house?
You are paranoid lmao nobody cares about you enough to follow you home💀
No one is paying attention to you, let alone enough to memorize your address.
If it helps I don’t pay attention to others address when they say it in big box stores I am sure others don’t pay attention either
I mean it is pretty dumb to worry about this
Welcome to living in a society where lawyers control everything because no one takes responsibility for anything. What's odd about this post is the OP is annoyed at he vendor for being certain they're giving the right drugs to the right person, for safety reasons, but the OP doesn't want to give out the address...for safety reasons...in case someone is in earshot and decides on the spur of the moment to rob and murder them. People really need to turn off media. All of outdoors isn't the dystopian crime city that the news outlets and other media want you to think. I wonder how many people on here complaining about their first world problems, support lawyers suing the hell out of anything and everything possible. It used to be the American Dream was to own a home. Then that fantasy got taken away by reality, and it became winning the lottery. Now it's to get rich by suing someone.
That's why I only ask for name and birthday. The only time I'd ask for address is if they couldn't say birthday and there was noone else around. Tbh even then imo it's better to check the postcode/zip code than first line of the address
Only Birthday should be asked,day and month.
And when you ask "may I give dob instead" and/or lean in and talk more quietly, do they object?
My pharmacy delivers and they’re always running up to the first person they see going “Prescriptions for GanethLey?” And I complained several times that they’re going to get someone’s life-saving meds stolen by “verifying” that way.
it sounds like you already have a solution. just write your address on a piece of paper to show them. you'r suspicions that people will think you are paranoid or stupid for writing your address on paper are holding you back from following your own idea that is already the exact solution to your problem. You think the possibility that maybe someone will think you are stupid (but they probably dont even care because they're busy thinking about themselves) over-rides your desire to not announce your address out loud and give away where you live to everyone in the area?
Usually just your street is sufficient
Address? Usually it's name and birthday. They may have you sign a piece of paper depending on the prescription. Dude, you got a weird pharmacy. Might wanna change to a new one.
I've had 1st ammendment auditors recording in the VA Hospital Lobby while staff are yelling across the room to each other about my medical issue, loudly asking my name and birthday.
I hand my ID to avoid this when people I don't want to hear are around.
I have never been asked for my address other than to verify their records are correct. They just want a name and date of birth. Hell I can even pick up my wife's medication, and she can pick up mine with just that information and nothing else.
I tend to speak just loud enough to be hear by the person directly next to me but quiet enough that nobody else can hear me so I never really think much about people overhearing. I can’t even hear the people at the counter in front of me.
I use mailing address. Pro tip, if they are the same, this ship has already sailed. Which is why I HAVE a p.o. box.
You already have a prewitten card with your address on it. It's your ID
I make a note on my phone in large print for stuff like that. I did that for my mom's phone number when I picked up her meds.
Mine just asks my birthday
I just show my license. It has all the info they need.
Hand them your ID. And tell them you don’t want to announce your PII.