Yeah I'll def have to print that off
I would let the pharmacist make that call, though. It's just easier to use the company's words when refusing to fill a dubious prescription. I found one of the 2 disclaimers I used to have handy. By saying "I am not comfortable accepting this prescription", you are conveying many things patients can misconstrue, complain to corporate and then have someone in a suit, without a PharmD, tell you that you have to apologize and fill it for the "customer" or "guest", depending upon whose Kool Aid you are drinking. You're saying "I wont fill it but maybe another staff pharmacist might when Im not here". You're also saying "I'm judging your appearance and the likelihood of your prescription being altered or forged, is quite high". So stay away from all that and sit behind the law and company policy.
Here you go:
"Pharmacists should not fill a prescription if they have
reason to doubt that the practitioner has issued a prescription for a legitimate medical purpose in the course of a legitimate doctor/patient relationship, regardless of whether the prescription is otherwise “valid” on its face.
It is illegal for a pharmacist to knowingly dispense a controlled substance pursuant to an invalid prescription. This includes prescriptions that:
· are not issued for a legitimate medical purpose by a practitioner acting in the usual course of their professional practice.
· Do not meet the technical requirements for a controlled substance prescription
· Violate limitations on oral, facsimile or electronic prescribing
· Appear to have been altered, forged or copied.
A pharmacy colleague who violates state or federal law or who fails to take steps to verify a prescription when there is a reason to believe it is not valid and, instead fills the questionable prescription can be prosecuted criminally and/or lose his or her professional license in addition to being subject to disciplinary action by CVS/pharmacy up to and including termination of employment. If the prescription cannot be verified, it cannot be filled.
If a pharmacist is unable to verify the prescription with the prescriber, or after speaking with the prescriber’s office believes, in the exercise of his or her professional judgment, that a prescription is forged, altered, or otherwise invalid, the Pharmacist must not dispense it."