Hubby got subpoenaed!!

[propita]

At first, I thought that Costco was being sued by a customer (Hubby's a pharmacist there)--then he tells me it's a criminal charge against the customer.

Seems that a customer's prescriptions were just too suspicious to Hubby--too many schedule 2 drugs too soon, repeatedly (there's no way to use that many of that drug in that time and be alive). Really rude person too--always yelling and "in a hurry"--and not even a member of the store (which makes it all worse somehow, just coming to Costco to get drugs illegally and yell at the pharmacist for not giving them).

Hubby checked into what records he had and put the name(s) on a watch list. Later on a do-not-sell list. He called the doctor whose name was on the prescription. There wasn't much more he could do, he didn't have complete records.

Seems that the customer and/or friend and/or spouse was a nurse for the doctor and was writing her own prescriptions--or something rather similar. The doctor evidently was quite pissed at this deceit and threat to his license and reported her to the State. Leading to these charges.

Very proud of Hubby for not just letting something suspicious continue--and the doctor. So many people just let these things go. Waiting to see what happens.

 

[Blip]

Hahahaha awesome, I hope that duplicitous little b*tch gets what's coming to her. Good on your husband for sticking to his guns!

 

[Angry Angel]

Quite observant of him, and impressive that he took action on it.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Don't you love it when the system works?

 

[FPAlpha]

Well.. it's his job to notice these things but many people still decide it's none of their business and sell the drugs (and get all insulted when something terrible happens and they become the target of investigation).

Good for him for following the rules (i like to bend them sometimes to speed up things but not on such serious cases).

Edit:

And major fail for the customer who repeatedly get their (illegally prescribed) drugs from the same pharmacist.. anyone will notice a pattern and maybe report it. If you do that than never twice at the same pharmacist.. or at least include a longer time between pickups.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Everyone in the "impolite employees" thread should read this.

 

[Aurian]

Good for him propita. I hope it will not trouble him too much to be a witness.
I know I had some problems with worries when I was on the witness stand.

 

[pookha]

good for him..

 

[Mallory]

I'm glad your husband noticed the pattern propita. Nice work on his part.

 

[freak]

Everyone in the "impolite employees" thread should read this.

Ain't that the truth!!!!! I should take a note of this as well.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Everyone in the "impolite employees" thread should read this.

Ain't that the truth!!!!! I should take a note of this as well.

yeah, to hear most of the people in that thread tell it, Mr. propita should have just let the customer do whatever they want. But he actually had the guts to stand up to someone he *knew* was wrong. I give him all the respect for that.

 

[Holdfast]

And major fail for the customer who repeatedly get their (illegally prescribed) drugs from the same pharmacist...

I know, that's what I thought too on reading the story. This customer is an idiot. Even the most amateur drug addict using nicked scripts knows to use a different pharmacist every time. And combine the fact that it was a health professional/contact-of, it makes their action even more moronic. Can't even get a decent class of criminal these days...

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

propita--VERY good work your husband did there. Especially with what we're seeing in the news lately about illicit prescriptions and so forth, I am very pleased to see that your husband did the right thing, even though it may lead to inconvenience like having to go to court, or even just being "known" for having brought up an issue. That's courage.

On a side note...it's also good to see the doctor taking responsibility and reporting the issue to the state, too, when he realized his employee was doing something illicit. With all we've seen about irresponsible doctors, that's also heartening to read, somehow.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Congrats to your husband. I'll bet that doc was very grateful for the tip.

 

[propita]

That's what's really bad about this--Hubby wasn't the only pharmacist being hit! That's why he put a do-not-sell into the Costco system. NONE of the Costcos could sell schedule 2's to her after that.

When he looked into it a little with the State, he found that she was using other big-name chains, too--but all he could find were one under this particular name. Evidently, State records aren't necessarily thorough, even on these drugs. Change a middle initial and you have another person in the system not tied to you.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Change a middle initial and you have another person in the system not tied to you.

Isn't that fraud?

 

[propita]

Change a middle initial and you have another person in the system not tied to you.

Isn't that fraud?

I don't think she was worried about that detail, afterall, she was already stealing prescription slips and forging a doctor's name to get controlled drugs. Changing one letter probably seemed pretty minor.

 

[M'Sharak]

And major fail for the customer who repeatedly get their (illegally prescribed) drugs from the same pharmacist...

I know, that's what I thought too on reading the story. This customer is an idiot. Even the most amateur drug addict using nicked scripts knows to use a different pharmacist every time. And combine the fact that it was a health professional/contact-of, it makes their action even more moronic. Can't even get a decent class of criminal these days...

Plus, there's the "calling unnecessary attention to oneself by being rude and pushy" level of fail.