Professionals? HAHA

There are two types of professionals out there:
1. Professionals that get treated like professionals
2.Professionals that get treated like shit.

Now...what do you think Pharmacists fall under?

Pharmacy schools try brainwash their students into thinking that Pharmacists are an integral part of the health care network, that they are the last line of therapy to the patients (the gatekeeper, the guardian), the drug experts, blah blah blah. I'm not downing my own future profession (if that's what you want to call it), and I'm sure all of that is true but until everyone else realizes that it means nothing. I've treated my plumber and electrician better than the majority of the patients treat pharmacists. To what other health care provider can you curse and basically spit on if your insurance plan expired or if you waited more than 24.5seconds? I am waiting for the day when I am sitting in the waiting room at my doc's office when someone else just throws their hands up in the air and starts yelling for the doctor to see him right now and then mock his work and knowledge in front of everyone! Sorry APhA, no amount of code of ethics and professional workshops will change the mind of the masses...goodbye to the respect we deserve and hello to my daily dose of scotch on the rocks and liver failure.

--IISboy..wow reading this over again makes me want to self-prescribe some prozac, o well..


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-IISboy again....happy now that I'm imagining my six-figure net pay :)

More Stupid Patients....

Hey everyone, I know it's been a while since we updated this and we apologize. Aside from the amount of studying we put in, the hours we intern, and the time it takes from recovering from acute liver toxicity we really couldn't find time to rant about anything.
I feel that I have become so accustomed to the ridiculous nature of Pharmacy Practice that nothing really surprises me enough to find it worthy to share. But throughout this past summer there have been some minor occurrences that made me realize people are genuinely retarded...here's one

(background: my pharmacy does not carry morphine and morphine related substances)

A woman comes to the drop off/input window carrying a crying infant and hands me a script. While I am looking at it, she asks me where are the breast pumps. Before answering her, I realized it was a script for oxycodone 5mg TID #60. I told her we don't carry it and she was very agitated but asked me again for the item, I pointed her to the right direction and asked her if the script was for her, and she said yes. I warned her that if she is breast feeding the drugs can possibly pass through the milk at that dose but she obviously didn't care and was getting an attitude. I offered to call the doctor and have him change the medication to something safer for her and the child but at that point she was yelling at me, so I took my red pen/sharpie and wrote on the back- patient is breast feeding...call doctor. Bye.

School's out for the summah!

Hey everyone,

Class ended a few days ago, so that means IISBoy and I are back after a stressful semester full of pharmacotherapy fun! I've got some stories to share, but right now I'm going to Hulu it up, and get caught up on all the episodes of House I missed this season.

I also need a nap and some Ibuprofen as I am trying to kick the mean caffeine addiction I develop every semester, and am going cold-turkey. Damn I could use a Mountain Dew...

Meanwhile, I am pretty much up to my ears in Tamiflu at work. Apparently the swine flu is serious business because the corporate powers that be saw fit to send dozens of boxes of it in our last warehouse order. (Unfortunately they didn't send us any of the Zocor or Vicodin we ordered, so this will be a fun week of out-of-stocks!) Anyway, I already received a few scripts from a few people "stocking up." These people are probably going to begin taking their Tamiflu in a panic next week when their seasonal allergies start acting up, and there goes $90 of medication.

--IISgirl ... I will probably have the swine flu for real next week, with many thanks to my patients who sneeze, cough, and otherwise excrete and secrete upon me on a daily basis

We SHALL return...but just not NOW

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We WILL return with a bag full of stories to share...be patient please!

Thanks for keeping up with IIS and requesting for more rants!

--IISBoy- trying to stay alive for the remainder of the school year!