Being sick these past few days has given me time to think in between sleeping for hours on end. It has also reminded me that I probably will be one of the crankiest people ever if I develop a chronic, debilitating disease. Not being able to function normally for a few days has made me irritable as I consider all of the things I would have been doing if I was not shivering in bed. The worst was not being able to have coffee with my best friend because she is a nurse and does not want to get sick and pass it along to her patients.
The other day, I was reading the blog of the medical student which is highlighted on the blogs of note list and I got to thinking about some of the craziness that goes on in front of and behind my pharmacy counter. My favourite this week was a woman who showed me her patient instruction sheet from her physician. Keep in mind that she has just had a hysterectomy and had developed a UTI and likes to ask questions for the sake of asking questions. The sheet said that she was not to have sex for 6 weeks. In all seriousness, she looked at me and said, "What does that mean?".
My other favourite this week was a woman who wanted to ask some questions about her prescriptions. No problem, until she hauled the items out of her purse and they had labels from another pharmacy.
I was asked to check on drug interactions for one of my customers. I was appalled that one of the manufacturers involved did not bother to do drug interaction studies when they brought the drug to market, especially since it is used for rheumatoid arthritis and anyone who is familiar with RA knows what a cocktail of drugs those patients usually take. Glad to see that HPB is looking out for us.
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