good pharmacy
Feb. 25th, 2007 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioKudos to Franck's Avalon Community Pharmacy, recommended to me by my vet.
I have never actually been to this pharmacy. Truth be told, without consulting a map I couldn't tell you where Avalon is. (It's, um, a suburb, somewhere.) I have never met my pharmacist. However, even though they are not especially local, they deliver. One of my cats is on a maintenance drug that has to be compounded; I call them, they use the credit-card number I have on file with them, and two days later the drug fairies being a bag to my door.
The same cat was recently diagnosed with a new malaise. My vet told me that it's best if he gets half a tablet twice a day, but if that's too hard for me I can just give him one tablet once a day. (Breaking pills can be hard.) However, when the drug fairies did their thing, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had sliced all the tablets neatly in half for me. I asked my vet about it; she did not ask them to do that. They looked at the prescription and did something to help me out.
I currently get my own maintenance drugs through a mail-order program through my insurance. I'm guessing that a regular pharmacy won't be able to give me the discount the mail-order place gives (two months' co-pay gets three months' medicine), but I should ask. And while I don't often need other medicines, I know where I'll call when I do. These guys are great!
I have never actually been to this pharmacy. Truth be told, without consulting a map I couldn't tell you where Avalon is. (It's, um, a suburb, somewhere.) I have never met my pharmacist. However, even though they are not especially local, they deliver. One of my cats is on a maintenance drug that has to be compounded; I call them, they use the credit-card number I have on file with them, and two days later the drug fairies being a bag to my door.
The same cat was recently diagnosed with a new malaise. My vet told me that it's best if he gets half a tablet twice a day, but if that's too hard for me I can just give him one tablet once a day. (Breaking pills can be hard.) However, when the drug fairies did their thing, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had sliced all the tablets neatly in half for me. I asked my vet about it; she did not ask them to do that. They looked at the prescription and did something to help me out.
I currently get my own maintenance drugs through a mail-order program through my insurance. I'm guessing that a regular pharmacy won't be able to give me the discount the mail-order place gives (two months' co-pay gets three months' medicine), but I should ask. And while I don't often need other medicines, I know where I'll call when I do. These guys are great!
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Date: 2007-02-27 03:23 am (UTC)My vet originally recommended these guys because of the compounding (which, as you say, not everyone does), but she's been perfectly willing to call in other stuff there too, like the current drug (for hyperthyroid). The only one she hasn't been able to send there is Clavamox; if I understood her correctly, it's not a people-drug so they aren't allowed to dispense it.