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Yeah.
The doctor puts my prescription in the system. It's available in any pharmacy immediately. (Sometimes the doctor makes a note to the backoffice, which will then put it in the system. On a busy day this can take hours.)
I can then go to any pharmacy without pre arranging anything. At the register I say what I want (or if I'm not sure they can check my prescriptions), and a few seconds later I get it, I pay, I leave. I don't think I've ever waited more than a minute.
In some pharmacies there's a robot that will find the medicine while I continue the conversation and pay, making it zero waiting time.
I'm not sure exactly what "fill it" means to you. Here it means grab a box or bottle from the stock, stick a label on it and hand it over. The label has my name and a note from the doctor about its usage.
Well that sounds a lot more convenient.
By “fill it” I mean put the prescribed number of pills or quantity of liquid into the container. The prescription is not always for a set amount that would be pre-bottled. And sometimes if there is a shortage then they might give me some pills from one manufacturer and some equivalent pills from another manufacturer. (I’m not sure how this kind of stuff is never necessary in your system.)
I'm not sure how they handle that here.
Sometimes I get a box with a ridiculously small amount, I think I got 5 or 8 pills in a box.
I know people who get custom packaged medicine, but that is delivered.