Hear ye! Hear ye!
Subutex and its generic are on back order! The drug companies cannot keep up with the demand. This is NOT MY FAULT! Why the issue you ask? B/C of YOU people sucking it down like its your job!! Why are you so surprised? Well, hell-did you think YOU were the only person taking it? Yeah I know. You are going to an exotic island and NEED IT so if I can cough up a supply you would be willing to pay more. No can do. Deal with it like normal folks and hey-keep calm and carry on...
Love,
Filet
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Pestilence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkytL3W6q6k
Watch this clip from Supernatural and you will experience just what I see with every cold patient that comes in to McDruggie's. I laughed my ass off when I saw it and wonder if the writer of that sequence had shopped at my McDruggie's when one of these patients came in.
For those of you that don't watch Supernatural it is a show on the CW about two sexy brothers that have a bitchin' car and hunt supernatural creatures (ie ghosts, demons, etc.) and are now trying to stop the Apocalypse. They have already offed two of the horsemen and now are after the other two. The end of this episode introduces Pestilence and really pegs what a mucusy mess a cold patient can leave behind.
Watch this clip from Supernatural and you will experience just what I see with every cold patient that comes in to McDruggie's. I laughed my ass off when I saw it and wonder if the writer of that sequence had shopped at my McDruggie's when one of these patients came in.
For those of you that don't watch Supernatural it is a show on the CW about two sexy brothers that have a bitchin' car and hunt supernatural creatures (ie ghosts, demons, etc.) and are now trying to stop the Apocalypse. They have already offed two of the horsemen and now are after the other two. The end of this episode introduces Pestilence and really pegs what a mucusy mess a cold patient can leave behind.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Stating the obvious, over and over
The last few months, I've been away from my store, working on different projects around our district. The biggie was opening a new store. It was a lot of fun, because I was not in my store and hearing my customers, but still, it had its annoyances. Like, before the store could even get shelving in, we were shooing away customers. The lack of anything in the store didn't clue you in that it might not be open yet?
It only got worse as time passed. People were in our parking lot, so that means the store is open, despite the big "Store Close" on the door, right? (one of the SM typed the sign, and then handwrote a 'D' next to "Close". Stay classy.) Eventually all of us helping set up had a 'turned away a yahoo' story to tell. I especially loved the woman that asked me how did I get in if the store wasn't open yet. It couldn't possibly be the fact that I work for the company. One guy managed to get past the workers, open the doors that weren't automatic yet and started shopping before someone saw him taking stuff of the shelves instead of putting stuff on.
It was nice, though, seeing people that had shopped at the store's location back when it was our local chain pharmacy in a strip mall to it's huge freestanding incarnation. I love being in the Midwest.
Now I'm back at my store, where someone actually got mad at me for getting a hair cut. Because I always consult the customers in matters of beauty.
It only got worse as time passed. People were in our parking lot, so that means the store is open, despite the big "Store Close" on the door, right? (one of the SM typed the sign, and then handwrote a 'D' next to "Close". Stay classy.) Eventually all of us helping set up had a 'turned away a yahoo' story to tell. I especially loved the woman that asked me how did I get in if the store wasn't open yet. It couldn't possibly be the fact that I work for the company. One guy managed to get past the workers, open the doors that weren't automatic yet and started shopping before someone saw him taking stuff of the shelves instead of putting stuff on.
It was nice, though, seeing people that had shopped at the store's location back when it was our local chain pharmacy in a strip mall to it's huge freestanding incarnation. I love being in the Midwest.
Now I'm back at my store, where someone actually got mad at me for getting a hair cut. Because I always consult the customers in matters of beauty.
Moron Alert
Most of the time I give a customer the benefit of the doubt. I try to be nice to everyone, even if they are a repeat offender i.e. bothersome drug addict, on my shit list or a holier-than-thou HCP. However, today really pushed my "nice limits".
Oh where do I start?? Maybe it was the DB that kept confusing Suboxone and Subutex after I told him 3 times what the difference is and why a shortage existed for Subutex and its generic. Showed up with a wad of cash the size of Texas yet still bitched about the cost of Suboxone. Seriously dude!!
Perhaps it was the beeyotch that complained about the cost of Plan B. Shit! Have that kid! "18 years...18 years...she got you for 18 years" Look it up! It is the Gold digger song you will be humming soon enough. Like I've said before-if it was up to me, it would be F*R*E*E. Some babies don't need to be born. Maybe you were one of them??
Really, Dr. D? You told a patient citalopram had NO side effects? OMG you need to be punched in the head. The patient almost cried when I went over them with her! Why would you do that?
I cannot read your mind. If you ramble on about your refills, disease of the week, or pizza order, I still don't know who the f**k you are so please, please and for the love of GOD and sweet baby Jesus-start the conversation off with your name. Example: "Hello. My name is _______. I would like to refill my ______. I would like to pick that up by ________. Thank you. You are the best and the cutest pharmacist in the world (brownie points for that). OK bye" Yeah! Be normal! It is not that hard.
Middle aged women-you are not the only ones going through menopause (maybe Big N Tasty is? Ha ha). Don't take it out on me. I will likely add you to my shit list, which is growing longer by the day.
Receptionists-don't waste my time! Fax the PA informatoin over. I don't want to have an epic conversation about JJ's Ensure being approved. It is a "yes" or "no" check on the damn box. "Yes" he can have his chocolate Ensure for the month or "no" way, Jose. If you were on hold for more than 5 minutes, it is your own damn fault. If you listen to the message that interrupts "Brick House", you will hear an option for leaving a voice mail. Leave it! I check it allllll the time.
Now I realize not everyone is perfect like me, but I really wish they were. Sigh.
OK enough bitching. Night!
Love,
Filet
Oh where do I start?? Maybe it was the DB that kept confusing Suboxone and Subutex after I told him 3 times what the difference is and why a shortage existed for Subutex and its generic. Showed up with a wad of cash the size of Texas yet still bitched about the cost of Suboxone. Seriously dude!!
Perhaps it was the beeyotch that complained about the cost of Plan B. Shit! Have that kid! "18 years...18 years...she got you for 18 years" Look it up! It is the Gold digger song you will be humming soon enough. Like I've said before-if it was up to me, it would be F*R*E*E. Some babies don't need to be born. Maybe you were one of them??
Really, Dr. D? You told a patient citalopram had NO side effects? OMG you need to be punched in the head. The patient almost cried when I went over them with her! Why would you do that?
I cannot read your mind. If you ramble on about your refills, disease of the week, or pizza order, I still don't know who the f**k you are so please, please and for the love of GOD and sweet baby Jesus-start the conversation off with your name. Example: "Hello. My name is _______. I would like to refill my ______. I would like to pick that up by ________. Thank you. You are the best and the cutest pharmacist in the world (brownie points for that). OK bye" Yeah! Be normal! It is not that hard.
Middle aged women-you are not the only ones going through menopause (maybe Big N Tasty is? Ha ha). Don't take it out on me. I will likely add you to my shit list, which is growing longer by the day.
Receptionists-don't waste my time! Fax the PA informatoin over. I don't want to have an epic conversation about JJ's Ensure being approved. It is a "yes" or "no" check on the damn box. "Yes" he can have his chocolate Ensure for the month or "no" way, Jose. If you were on hold for more than 5 minutes, it is your own damn fault. If you listen to the message that interrupts "Brick House", you will hear an option for leaving a voice mail. Leave it! I check it allllll the time.
Now I realize not everyone is perfect like me, but I really wish they were. Sigh.
OK enough bitching. Night!
Love,
Filet
Monday, April 26, 2010
Things I Didn't Learn In Pharmacy School
I have always been fascinated by crime scene investigation and putting together the evidence puzzle that nails the bad guys. I recently read "Bodies We've Buried" that is a walk-through of what is taught at the National Forensic Academy in Tennessee. I learned some things there that I never learned in pharmacy school.
1. The medical examiner has far better stories than I do. For example: The world of the medical examiner is a strange one-a very strange world indeed. One day, the ME might perform an autopsy on an adolescent who has overdosed on Oxycontin, and the next day extract a gourd from the rectum of a cross-dressing traveling salesman who has accidentally strangled himself while masturbating with a Bic pen jammed into his penis (we kid you not). You just never know.
2. Blood will not pool where there is pressure or clothing when you die. For example: The commode is a common place for even the best of us to die (remember the king dying on his throne). If the person dies and remains on the toilet for some time, this person will form the most ungodly and unbelievably pale ring in the shape of the toilet seat-the rest of the undercarriage will be purple.
3. Sperm is spunky! For example: Sperm can survive for up to three days in the vagina of a living person, and has been known to survive for over three years in the rectum of a frozen cadaver. Another example: Hundreds of sperm heads have been known to survive between the cheek and gum for up to six hours after ejaculation.
4. We could be a valuable food source to urban foragers. For example: Furthermore, animals are attracted to a decomposing body in succession, much as insects are. Larger carnivores (raccoons, possums) arrive first, devouring most of the flesh. When most of the meat is gone, along come the smaller animals, like rats, whose interest lies solely with the joints of the cadaver. This is where the fattiest nutrients reside within the marrow. Next come the herbivores, such as squirrels. Squirrels nibble away at the small bones, like those in the ribs, searching for calcium and other minerals.
It makes me sad that only law enforcement officers or current crime scene techs are allowed to attend the school. Maybe they could be swayed by a sizable cash donation...come on Powerball numbers! I may have to make a career change because this book sounds far more interesting than what I do for a living!
1. The medical examiner has far better stories than I do. For example: The world of the medical examiner is a strange one-a very strange world indeed. One day, the ME might perform an autopsy on an adolescent who has overdosed on Oxycontin, and the next day extract a gourd from the rectum of a cross-dressing traveling salesman who has accidentally strangled himself while masturbating with a Bic pen jammed into his penis (we kid you not). You just never know.
2. Blood will not pool where there is pressure or clothing when you die. For example: The commode is a common place for even the best of us to die (remember the king dying on his throne). If the person dies and remains on the toilet for some time, this person will form the most ungodly and unbelievably pale ring in the shape of the toilet seat-the rest of the undercarriage will be purple.
3. Sperm is spunky! For example: Sperm can survive for up to three days in the vagina of a living person, and has been known to survive for over three years in the rectum of a frozen cadaver. Another example: Hundreds of sperm heads have been known to survive between the cheek and gum for up to six hours after ejaculation.
4. We could be a valuable food source to urban foragers. For example: Furthermore, animals are attracted to a decomposing body in succession, much as insects are. Larger carnivores (raccoons, possums) arrive first, devouring most of the flesh. When most of the meat is gone, along come the smaller animals, like rats, whose interest lies solely with the joints of the cadaver. This is where the fattiest nutrients reside within the marrow. Next come the herbivores, such as squirrels. Squirrels nibble away at the small bones, like those in the ribs, searching for calcium and other minerals.
It makes me sad that only law enforcement officers or current crime scene techs are allowed to attend the school. Maybe they could be swayed by a sizable cash donation...come on Powerball numbers! I may have to make a career change because this book sounds far more interesting than what I do for a living!
Infection,scourge of the computerverse
Friday and Saturday were spent not in the pursuit of pharmacological excellence, not in stamping out disease, pestilence, and paperwork, but in hunting down and eliminating an evil computer virus. I am not even vaguely a computer geek, although I'm related to several. This required all the time, quiet, and patience you rarely get in a retail pharmacy. It also required the help of not one, but two experts.
But, after being tricked into thinking the virus had been crushed on Friday, I would not be a victim again on Saturday. At 5 minutes til close, the evil worm was finally vanquished, deleted, detroyed.
This was a victory for me in several ways, because I am not a techno-idiot, but there is a reason I'm in the Life Sciences: I'd rather read a real book, use a real typewriter, and not have to fight with the computerverse to get my work done.
So, a curse upon the twisted creators of computer viruses, and thanks again, you computer geeks.
But, after being tricked into thinking the virus had been crushed on Friday, I would not be a victim again on Saturday. At 5 minutes til close, the evil worm was finally vanquished, deleted, detroyed.
This was a victory for me in several ways, because I am not a techno-idiot, but there is a reason I'm in the Life Sciences: I'd rather read a real book, use a real typewriter, and not have to fight with the computerverse to get my work done.
So, a curse upon the twisted creators of computer viruses, and thanks again, you computer geeks.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Raise Your Lighters!
I will raise my lighter and hold it high until I burn my little fingers as an offering to the hair band gods to help the medical personnel do their very best to get Bret Michaels and his weave back in touring shape. He suffered a brain hemorrhage a few days ago and has been in intensive care ever since.
I hearken back to the days of my youth when I had all Poison's albums and saw them in concert several times. I even had a friend go with me to see Poison on their reunion tour a few years ago. He made me promise not to tell anyone at work that he was dancing and singing along but I did anyway. It was a good time. What is the point of having a good time if you can't brag about it?
I am also pulling for Bret because his devotion to Diabetes awareness and research has been a lifelong endeavor as he is an insulin dependent diabetic. He has done many things publicly to promote and raise funds for a good cause. I am also endeared by his poor reality show dating choices as they make me feel not so bad about my own. How can you not adore someone who is so shameless, so selfless, and so damn entertaining?
So let's all pull for Bret in the hopes that he will be entertaining us and educating the public for years to come!
Update 4/14/2010: Bret Michaels is in physical therapy and hopes to be back on tour in a few weeks. Yay!
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