I worked for a Wal-Mart pharmacy as a technician for 5 years. The store I worked for was WONDERFUL! Wal-Mart uses a computer system called Connexus to fill prescriptions. With Connexus, a technician takes in your prescription, fills in the information from the written prescription & scans the written prescription to the computer. From there, an RPh (Registered Pharmacist) “4-Points” the prescription by comparing what the technician has entered to what the doctor has written on the physical prescription. That RPh then releases that order (if all is correct OR makes corrections if necessary) for a technician to fill. The order then goes to a hand-held computer, & a technician fills the prescription. Once that order is finished, another RPh checks the written prescription again & compares the medication in the bottle to the picture of the medication that is on his/her screen. He/she also checks to make sure that the dosage, amount, & directions for taking/using is correct. Accidents happen, we’re only human.

BUT… When my husband transferred to another state with his job, I transferred to a different Wal-Mart. The pharmacy I transferred to was sloppy, haphazard & negligent in their work habits. If things were busy, the RPh would let a “seasoned” technician do the initial entering AND 4-Pointing; meaning that the same eyes that had entered that prescription (perhaps incorrectly) were now okaying that prescription for filling. Only an RPh is supposed to 4-Point. In some states it is permissible for a technician to take an order, by phone, from a doctor’s office. That’s a practice I find unacceptable, but there you have it.

After a few months of working with a pharmacy crew I found to be sub-standard, I quit. If I didn’t know my medications, dosage amounts & usages, I would most likely not have prescriptions filled at a Wal-Mart pharmacy.

I went to my family doctor with a bad cold,she prescribed cough syrup and albteroul for my symptoms. I usede as pescriped but my shortness of breath kept getting worse. not better, after I got the notice to stop using I had already used 27 doses

Ive been having problems since i refilled my albuyerol script. It is a fluke i ended up on this site,i had received a new neb machine and thought it was the cause of my increased breathing issues. Well i looked at my box & vials of albuterol & their on the recal list. Ive been having chest pain ,high blood pressure which ive never had ,lots of heart palpitations,and more wheezing,ringing in my ears, and unable to function normaly. I had no clue it was my albuterol causeing it,i feel more shaky & agitated as well as panic attacks & wheezing more. What do i do now