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Can't a doctor issue a prescription for you to bring to a pharmacy? Your experience sounds wild because that's how things are done in Serbia for ages: getting

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  With a paper prescription in the US, you will usually drop it off at one window and wait a minimum of 15-20 min for their heavy process and blocking queues. That includes checking with your pharmacy benefits manager (a middleman different from your health insurance provider) to see how your drug is covered (could be the difference between $3 and $300) One alternative is a mail order pharmacy which sends you drugs ahead of time, which is good for anyone who takes a drug regularly. The best service would integrate that with the neighborhood pharmacy that gets you the pills that you were told to take when you were discharged from the ER. I am satisfied with my neighborhood Walgreens today but back in the pandemic they had some staffing related disaster which had them running very limited hours with resulting very long queues, long queues that you had to be socially distant in. That was a mess, today is fine so long as you remember the window in midday when the whole pharmacy shuts down for lunch.