All I want to hear from the pharmacy tech/clerk...

...are things like "Good morning, how are you today?", "Is there anything else I can do for you today?", "Would you like to speak to the pharmacist about your prescription(s) today?" and "I wish you well" or "Have a nice day". I do NOT want to hear "go to this website to learn the truth about cancer" or "I hope you're using alternative therapies because that's the only way you can beat it" or "I've cared for three cancer patients and the only ones that made it were the ones that pursued alternative therapies." I especially don't want to hear this from 1) someone I do not know, 2) someone that has no medical, holistic, or pharmaceutical degree, or 3) someone that is saying this to me over the pharmacy counter while others can hear it and when all I said was "I'm here to pick up my prescription." SERIOUSLY, why is it that some people have to ruin a person's day with this kind of unsolicited, unwanted, and unprofessional "advice" during the most stressful time of a person's life - as they are fighting for their life?! Dear Laura (pharmacy hag that said these things to me yesterday), While you may truly believe you are being kind and helpful to those in my situation, please reconsider saying such things to me and others like me that come to your counter. Assuming that we haven't already considered any and all available options to fight the battle against this deadly disease is quite insulting and hurtful. You nearly ruined my afternoon yesterday with your inconsiderate and inappropriate comments about my cancer treatments. I did not ask you for medical or holistic treatment options or advice. I simply asked you to ring up my prescription and yet you chose to violate my privacy by reviewing the nature of my prescription, looking at my bald head, and then making statements about my treatment plan in front of other customers (isn't that a violation of federal law anyway?!). I am quite confident in my physicians, surgeons, and holistic practitioners and the plan they have me on but there's always that occasional fear and doubt a person with cancer will have and comments like yours only stoke the flames of fear and doubt at a time when we need to be positive and confident. I have just made a call to your manager to inform her of your unprofessional interactions with me since yesterday was the THIRD time you have done this to me. I asked her to instruct you to discontinue such inappropriate interactions since you are indeed violating patients' privacy. I told her I'd keep my prescriptions there as long as that never happens again but if it happens one more time I'm transferring out to another pharmacy because I don't need that nonsense right now. I hope you will begin to think about how your comments make the customers feel and if you feel you need to disseminate information about alternative treatments you should do so in a more appropriate setting where people are actually soliciting such information. Thank you, Julie Olsen