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Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

Did a technician you work with do something completely dumb, extremely funny, or just simply amazing? Go ahead and post it here and let the rest of us join in and read what they did!

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Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

When e--prescribing first came out, its proponents were saying tht it would totally eliminate prescribing errors, because everything would be completely legible, and there would be no more is it Prozac or Prilosec questions. To which my professors said, yeah, completely legible and totally wrong.

Case in point this past Sunday, Rx Metformin 1000mg, disp. #60, days supply 30, sig: Take 1 tablet for 9 hours, then off for 15 hours.

What do you want me to do with that? Drill a hole in the tablets and attach a string so you can swallow it and then yank it back out 9 hours later?

Edit: the original isosorbide mononitrate IR tabs had to be taken BID, exactly seven hours apart, but metformin isn't dosed that way.

(Jack Benny, the radio comedian, despite being in real life a generous philanthropist, had his on-air persona as a tightwad. His character had a nickel with a hole in it, so after making a phone call he could pull it back out of the phone.)

I called the prescriber and pointed this out, and she was like "How the heck did that happen? That's all kinds of wrong. I'm going to re-send that." And she did, it turned out to be one tablet twice daily. But it left me scratching my head.

Wasn't until much later that I realized that these are the directions for Daytrana and they probably hit the wrong macro in their EMR.

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One of my favorite things about being a retail tech is hearing how patients mispronounce medication names. Today, a lady called and asked for a refill of her “enemies.” We were fresh out of those so I refilled her enemas instead! LOL

What are your favorite patient mispronunciations?

Edit: I didn’t know the enema brand “Enemeez” existed so this one wasn’t a mispronunciation. The question still stands!

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Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

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Today someone called our INPATIENT ONLY hospital pharmacy (how do these people keep getting our phone number!?) and asked us to identify a medication for them. This person was apparently part of a clinical trial and wanted to know if they had the drug or a placebo. The pharmacist that answered said, “They probably don’t want you to know. What kind of markings does it have?” The guy said it was “a small white pill with no markings.” The pharmacist told him that we couldn’t identify it without it having any markings, and he responded, “if it had markings I could google it myself!!!” TF!? The pharmacist kept telling him we couldn’t help him and to call Poison Control 😂 Dude was so annoyed! He had apparently called LabCorp before he called us!

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Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

Sitting in the pharmacy at lunch, because it's a Target in they don't let us use their break rooms. Woman walks up to the gate and asks us if we closed early and we told her we did not. She asked if perhaps we had closed at 1:25 and therefore would be open early at 1:55 and once again we told her we did not close early. Then she insisted that we must have closed early because when she got there her watch said 1:29 and if we don't close until 1:30 we should have been able to help her.

Okay. Here's how things work. We have several clocks in the pharmacy and we open and close based on the time of which one is most convenient or appropriate to our needs. You will watch might say 129 and ours might say 131. Aside from that, don't come at 1:29. We close at 1:30 so that we can help the customer that stupidly showed up at 1:25 and is having a problem. If you show up at 1:29, and even if there aren't any problems, it's going to be 135 before we get that gate closed and people aren't going to get their full breaks thanks to you.

Clonazepam ODT 0.5mg, sig reads "Take one tablet on the tongue and allow to dissolve four times daily as needed for spams."

i’m about to leave retail tbh i can’t do it anymore lmao

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PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY understand that different countries have different prescribing laws.

I'm sure you can get a bottle of 100 paracetamol without any problems in the US, thats wonderful for you, but this IS THE UK. I can only LEGALLY sell you TWO paracetamol products at one time. This has been the law since about 2003(? I forget the exact year, but it's at least 10+ years old). My hands are tied. Ranting and raving to me about how terrible this is isn't going to help you.

If you need more, you need to go to another shop. Everyone else does with zero difficulties.

(Apologies to all the sensible Americans, it's just you happen to have a large demographic that apparently doesn't understand)

Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

I'm not a pharmacist, nor do I work in the industry. But I very much appreciate the hard work and many hoops my pharmacist and his team jump through on a daily basis for their patients.

Given that, I wanted to show appreciation that all could enjoy, and settled on the two largest boxes of Gourmet Chocolate that Godiva sells. The looks on their faces were priceless, and as I handed over the gifts, the sounds of, "I get the raspberry nougats" and "save me some caramels" brought a smile to my face as I quietly slipped away.

Have a wonderful holiday.

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this was billed to optumRX/BCBS but it’s still funny

Did a Pharmacist you work with do something out of the ordinary that stood out? Good or bad. Post any amazing or funny things that a pharmacist you know and work with did in the past week that stood out to you!

Did a technician you work with do something completely dumb, extremely funny, or just simply amazing? Go ahead and post it here and let the rest of us join in and read what they did!