i got a call from my pharmacy a while ago asking how my blood pressure medication is treating me and i said "oh yeah, no side effects afaict and my blood pressure is greatly reduced"
they went "ohh that's great, what is it now" so i told them, and they said "hmmm. that's still higher than we want"
which, yeah, i know. i said "i'm seeing a hypertension specialist and already have a followup appointment booked where, i imagine, i will be having my dosage increased. considering it's working well and i'm not having side effects" but they really wanted to do something. like they kept reiterating that my blood pressure is higher than i should want even in the face of "yes, i'm seeing a hypertension specialist". eventually they offered to fax the specialist with the numbers i gave them which, i just said "ok" to because it got me off the phone, even though i was going to give them those same numbers at the appointment
i guess i'm glad they care but i was kind of put off by the whole interaction. like, is a pharmacist supposed to do this? is that normal? i've never ever been contacted by a pharmacist for anything other than "your prescription is ready for pickup" before, but i did only recently switch to a drug store as opposed to walmart
@monorail you're in ontario right? the goverment MedsCheck program pays pharmacies for doing "medication reviews" with customers, but they're only supposed to do it when asked, but there was a new article a while ago about pharmacies pressuring staff to cold call customers about it to get the funds from the government. probably that.
@monorail anytime! this is the article i was thinking of: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-medcheck-shoppers-drug-mart-pressure-1.7126811
@floralstone it was, in fact, shoppers drug mart!
@monorail holly not to shit on you but shoppers is the one pharmacy worse than walmart
@onfy because it's within easy walking distance and i walk to shoppers for a funny little snack often enough that i'd be able to occasionally grab my meds while i was there
@monorail I thought that was rexall?
@onfy there is a rexall close to me but there's a shoppers even closer
@monorail ah,yes, they have been on this expansion plan of putting their stores as close as possible to neighbourhoods for that reason... kinda insidious
@noiob @monorail their intention is to dominate by using their prominence to drive their competitors out of business. they intend to privatize our healthcare, and are working with the provincial government to achieve this... their service is lower quality, they're only focused on enriching the Weston family