I can't be arsed doing my job properly - so you can go to jail

[Andara Bledin]

They called the police before they contacted her doctor.

“He said, ‘Well we believe that you have forged your pain pill prescription and we are calling your doctor now. But I’ve worked with this pharmacist a number of times and he’s never made a mistake,” Lenhart said.

Based on the comment taken from the article, it appears that the pharmacist called the doctor that he got from the cross reference look-up, which he got wrong, and thus the doctor denied writing the prescription. Then the pharmacist called the police. The officer stated that the police would also attempt to contact the doctor, but by that point, the doctor was no longer available, and once he was reached the police dropped all charges.

Nothing in the article makes me think at any point that the pharmacist didn't call the doctor before calling police.

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[crashhelmet]

Nothing in the article makes me think at any point that the pharmacist didn't call the doctor before calling police.

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There's nothing in the article that says they did. Only the police saying they "believe" it's forged.

The police didn't say "The Pharmacist said they called and were told it was fake. So they called us. We're calling back to verify it."

There's noting in the article that says the police verified the DEA number matched up to the doctor that was called.

As the OP pointed out, if the pharmacy had done their job properly and if the police had done their job properly, none of this would have ever happened.

Read through the posts on CS about the SCs that try and scam the pharmacies all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if they took one look at the drug requested and convinced themselves it was a fraud.

[draco664]

There's nothing in the article that says they did. Only the police saying they "believe" it's forged.

The police didn't say "The Pharmacist said they called and were told it was fake. So they called us. We're calling back to verify it."

There's noting in the article that says the police verified the DEA number matched up to the doctor that was called.

As the OP pointed out, if the pharmacy had done their job properly and if the police had done their job properly, none of this would have ever happened.

Read through the posts on CS about the SCs that try and scam the pharmacies all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if they took one look at the drug requested and convinced themselves it was a fraud.

There's nothing in the article confirming anything beyond the facts.
1 - she tried to refill her prescription,
2 - her doctor wasn't contacted,
3 - she was jailed overnight, and
4 - that CVS are in discussions with her lawyer.

We don't know anything else. We don't know what the CVS employee did (only that he didn't contact her doctor), we don't know what the cops were told (only that they arrested her)

All the quotes in the article are hearsay, or extrapolations by her lawyer. There was no statement made by the police (only what the lawyer says her client recalls), the employee (we don't even know if it was a pharmacist or a tech) or CVS (beyond stating litigation was pending and they were in discussions with her lawyer)

My point was that we know that her doctor wasn't contacted, and that was the pharmacist's job. Since they couldn't be arsed doing that job, the woman went to jail overnight.

[Andara Bledin]

We don't know that he "couldn't be arsed to do that job," merely that what job he did he fucked up.

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[HYHYBT]

We don't actually *know* even that. It's *possible* that the mistake was made at the doctor's office.