Once a month I have to visit my Doctor & once a month he gives me a prescription. No problem there I hear you say and I agree, the fact that a standard pack of one tablets is 30 and a standard pack of pills is 28 so nothing lines up, I have a surplus of one or a shortage of the other.
Today I took my prescription to the Chemists, left it called back an hour later. Attached to the bag was an I.O.U. The Chemist had run out of one of my items.
It was
One pill short, sorry about that said the Pharmacist but I'll let you have the other one if you take the bother to call in, after all it's only one tablet.
This particular medication comes in bubble packs of 28, when I opened the container there where 26 on one strip and a neatly placed 1 that had been cut off the strip.
Now, from reading about my medication, (isn't the web wonderful), these drugs can be bought on the black market at a very good mark up to enhance a night out.
So, if I and 27 other people don't bother to call for the one missing tablet someone has a very profitable packet of tablets to sell on.
Sorry it's taken so long but here are some questions,
Do I just forget about the missing tablet? Do I call in for the tablet? Do I mention this to the authorities? Do these Chemists have some sort of quality control system that needs them to take one tablet from a random packet and test it to ensure there is no forgery etc?