What is your preferred name?
Do you have a preferred name that’s different from your legal name? Please consider the following:
In contrast to Medical and Dental computer systems, Pharmacies in BC link directly to the PharmaCare Network. For this reason, filling your prescriptions requires our computer system to have your legal name, rather than your preferred name.
We certainly respect your preferred name and wish to call you by it. We are working to adjust our system so that it reminds us of your preferred name during each visit. But there is no perfect system for this, especially if our interaction with you has not yet reached accessing our computer.
While we get to know you better, please tell us your preferred name and pronouns at each visit to our pharmacy.