Comments on: Dear PoPville – Help Save DC’s Cathedral Care Pharmacy

By: Michael Ross

Michael Ross — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:53:16 +0000

I’m the organizer of the petition to save Cathedral Pharmacy and here’s a direct link so you don’t have to search for it on the petition site:

http://tiny.cc/a3t6v

For more background–and an idea of why Cathedral Pharmacy is special to us–a story I did is here:

http://alllifeislocal.blogspot.com/2011/07/cathedral-care-pharmacy-v-cvs.html

Thanks

By: iwill

iwill — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:08:45 +0000

1. The Caremark-CVS devilish duo does worry me. The PTBs should look into that.

2. This pharmacy failed an audit. I don’t doubt that many of the regional CVS pharmacies would fail the same audit. But we aren’t talking about them

3. I considered this man on par with a faith healer who will pray away the flu/cancer/broken bone. The problem is he’s passing himself off as a legitimate medical professional. He’s bring religion to a scientific profession. What other job can you refuse to do just because people are doing legal and scientifically based things that you disagree with?

4. I do Walgreens mail-order. Cheaper and delivered FTW! They’re never out of stock and the support line people have the greatest southern accents. I get tempted to call just to say hi.

By: C3PO

C3PO — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:00:05 +0000

Of all the historically oppressed groups, women are the only ones who are routinely expected to suck up the affront and ignore it because there’s another “bigger and better” cause at stake. So what if we get fucked over? Aren’t monopolies more evil than sexist policies that seek to tell women how to live and what they can do with their bodies?

I wonder if this store sells Viagra? Hey, old men, if God wanted your peckers to work, than he’d make them work!

My apologies for the vulgarity, but it’s been a long day, and I am continually disgusted by this attitude.

By: PN

PN — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:41:31 +0000

Not in my one and only experience there. The pharmacist made an error in her data input and insisted that I had no refills available, when I was positive that I had at least 4 left. I tried to tell her this and asked her to check again, but she refused to believe that there was any way she could be incorrect and essentially yelled at me to leave the store and stop holding up her line. (I hadn’t been causing a scene and was perfectly polite the entire time, but since I knew I was right and I needed to start the medication that day, I didn’t want to leave until she figured out what she had done wrong so I could take my prescription with me. But she dismissed me from the start and was not willing to work with me at all to determine what could have happened.) I left practically in tears and called the previous CVS that had filled the prescription. They confirmed that I did have a number of authorized refills available, so I asked them to call the Capitol Hill CVS and tell the pharmacist that this was the case. I went back later after the two stores had communicated, and the pharmacist filled it, but without so much as a simple apology for making a mistake or for berating me for her mistake.

All that to say that while you may have good experiences there, it is not universal, and what happened to me there is similar to how I’ve been treated at most CVS stores – I go out of my way to be a polite, friendly customer wherever I take my business, and I am widely met with apathy and indifference at CVS in particular. I switched my prescriptions from CVS as soon as I moved somewhere with a viable alternative and am more than happy to pass multiple CVS locations on my way to pharmacies that will at least pretend that they care about my business.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:18:00 +0000

CVS Pharmacy in Capitol Hill is fantastic. Good luck with your “I hare money” worldview.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:17:00 +0000

CVS does not have a monopoly position in the DC market or even in the region.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:15:30 +0000

CVS has anything but a monopoly on pharmacy services in DC. There are plenty of pharmacies.

There aren’t a lot of independent pharmacies.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:11:50 +0000

Monopoly except for Giant Pharmacy, Target Pharmacy, Safeway Phamacy, Harris Teeter Pharmacy?

You’re silly.

Standalone Pharmacies are dead like in home Dr’s visits.

By: Lester

Lester — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:09:59 +0000

Sounds like this might have been a dirty trick by CVS to gain a monopoly. Don’t like the idea of a CVS monopoly. But, I don’t see how it forces the guy out of business. He would be free to sign with another pharmacy provider, and there are certainly others that have agreements with federal health plans. Might take time, but I’m sure a piece of the DC market would be attractive to another provider.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:48:38 +0000

i agree. i think it’s ridiculous to call them incorrect terms. these people are not mysogynist, or anti woman or whatever else you want to call them.

but they are living in the past and those beliefs help in the long slow death of the catholic church.

but at least their cool churches will make nice condos and bars someday.