Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
by URSpider94 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:42PM
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Pharmacy is regulated state by state. What they did may be ok in that state, or may be marginally ok. At the least, they didn’t just dump them into the same bottle together.
Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
by pitaa on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:09AM
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I've had the same thing happen multiple times, also at a certain "major nationwide pharmacy." Interestingly, the smaller/more local pharmacies have never done this.
Are there any exceptions allowed? I'm pretty sure I've had a major nationwide pharmacy give me a bottle with pills from two manufacturers in it. It had pills from the first in the bottom of the bottle, then a cotton wad on top of those, and the pills from the second manufacture on top of the cotton ball.
They opened the bottle when I went to pick it up, and pointed out what was going on inside and made sure I understood. They explained that they did not have enough pills in stock from the manufacturer they had used before for that prescription and refills, so filled out the order from a different manufacturer.
Perhaps it does not count as commingling because they divided the bottle into separate champers with a wad of cotton?