Why can't pharmacists give you a different form of the same drug???

Question

I filled a prescription that was written and came in pill form, but when I asked if they had it in syrup form they said yea but they couldn't give it to me that way because it wasn't prescribed as so.

Answer 1

One of the many regulations in pharmacy practise:

Dispense as written!

Answer 2

It has to come from your doctor- the pharmacies can't make any changes to prescriptions, it's illegal. You can call your doctor and he can call in a different form though.

Answer 3

you should ask to cancel your pills after you done with the bottle

and then ask for the syrup  

Answer 4

Pharmacists cannot deviate what if written on the prescription. It is against the law to do so. In your case, if it written for a pill form it has to be filled in a pill form. What your pharmacist can do is call the doctor and get it authorized to a liquid form.  

Answer 5

No one other than the doctor can make alterations.

The other day where I work a 325 mg of Tylenol to be taken orally was ordered and suppositories were sent of the same identical mg. So what did we do??? Send it back and wait for a transfer from a different floor of the correct route.

No one can alter a doctor's orders regardless of whether or not it's the same thing.