Have a regular patient who gets Percocet 5/325 fairly regularly for chronic pain. She broke something and was hospitalized and discharged over the weekend with a script from the hospital for a 3 day supply of 5mgs oxycodone. Originally told her we wouldn’t fill it as she should still have Percocet left at home, but she swore up and down that she couldn’t find it anywhere. Never had an issue with her before trying to get meds early. Couldn’t get ahold of anyone since it was the weekend. I ended up filling the 5mgs for her with documentation to follow up with her primary ASAP, did I do the right thing? I felt I couldn’t in good conscience leave her in pain over the weekend if she was telling the truth but I’m still feeling very iffy about it

I'm not from the USA. My pharmacy dispenses fake scripts for a specific type of scenario. It only takes up about 5% of our entire pharmacy system i think.

I'm an intern. But I've been asked to continue as a pharmacist after becoming registered.

Every other pharmacist at work dispenses those scripts. I did it a few times as an intern. But now i know how illegal it is, so i refuse to do it from this point forward.

But the senior pharmacist says whenever auditors come, the auditors dont pick it up.

With my luck, the auditors will pick it up and my rego is at risk.

The owner is the one who took their time to explain to me why we do this and how to do it.

The owner really does want me to stay.

I know a solution is to just call the doctor and get the doctor to just prescribe the correct kind of prescription. But that takes time, the doctor usually doesn't end up doing it and the owner won't be happy about doing it this roundabout way, even though its the legal way.

I dont know if the owner will fire me if I raise that i will keep working here, but I wont dispense scripts in that manner.

Edit: it's been half an hour since I wrote this post and I realise how weird it sounds. So the owner and other staff would say, "so you're gonna do all tasks as a pharmacist but whenever you get a script like this, you're gonna handball it to another pharmacist who is willing to break the rules for you?" That's guilt tripping me, even though the actual task is illegal. Its just like hiring a cleaner that cleans everything for you except the toilet.

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