[fireant911]

I have always been perplexed upon the length of time required to get a prescription filled. Pharmacists no longer, at least to my knowledge, have to make up individual prescriptions as in the day’s of old. Regardless of how busy the pharmacy appears to be, the answer always seems to be “we should have that ready in an hour”. Why an hour? The worse case now is that the quantity of pills may have to be counted. My trip yesterday was to pick up a prepackaged dosage of Tamiflu – this whole transaction should have taken less than one minute. I understand that there can be issues with insurance and such but why is the wait always much longer in length than necessary? I was already in the computer, everything was up-to-date on my end, and the Tamiflu was already boxed up and ready – why would there have to be any wait at all? Two trips to the pharmacy (one to drop the prescription off and another to pick it up) appear to be the standard.