Another day, another dollar…
Same old, same old today. I'm sure many of you return home each evening thinking the exact same thing...You type, you count, you label, you verify, you counsel, you ring, you repeat, then you go home and drink yourself silly in preparation of doing it all again. Occasionally, something fun happens that you remember and share. Here are a few of those things from me today:
- I scanned a prescription that should have rang $5 and change. It rang $250 bucks. I researched the rx number on the bag and my computer told me it didn't exist. What the hell?
- I found a bunch of lisinopril in a levothyroxine bottle. Both of mine are mylan...I can see where a complete retard would get the two confused.
- I filled an rx for #30 with 3 refills as #60 with 1 refill as the cash price of the latter was the same as the insurance price of the former. I spent over 10 minutes trying to explain the concept to an obvious schizophrenic (using words and drawings). I finally had my fill and changed it back to #30 with 3 refills to appease him and save myself from a nervous breakdown.
- I filled birth control for a girl that was too young to get it (imho) and her relative (mother? grandmother?) that was too old to get it. A little of me died inside.
- I did a transfer with a Walmart and was alerted by their chief pharmacist that as of tomorrow, they will have a birth control that is $9/pack. I looked at my cost for the same thing...$28/pack. Thanks, Walmart! You are going to single-handedly rob me of my bonus this year as my employer sees it as good business practice to price match with the largest company on the planet. I hope they plan on reducing the price of Valtrex. I see the need for it rising dramatically over the coming weeks to months.
- I ate some leftover spaghetti for lunch. I wanted to kick my own ass for wearing a white shirt. I blame my mother for giving me the coordination of child with Tourette's syndrome and/or never teaching me how to eat spaghetti correctly...
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We’re all in agreement…
So, we're all in agreement that drug companies should not be allowed to advertise directly to the consumer...right? Okay. Good. Great. Grand.
Ever see the Valtrex commercial? Sure you have, but have you ever really watched that fucking thing? It's got a decent looking brunette standing with some guy. She announces that she has it, and he doesn't --- because they are careful and take Valtrex. Blah. Then the 'voice' goes on to say, "Did you know that you can contract the herpes virus from your partner even though they have no physical symptoms?"
70% of people say they contracted genital herpes when their partner had no sign of breakout.
Fair enough - I mean, 98% of statistics are made up on the spot. But, let's hypothesize that this one is accurate. That means:
30% of you herpes-havin' motherfuckers got it when your fuckbuddy had a visible outbreak that you saw before doing the hibbity-dibbity.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
You deserve herpes if you saw it before doing the deed and still went to town. That's gross. That's worse than earning your redwings...
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A huge pile of crap…
I absolutely hate walking in to a mess -- we all do. Why in the hell does it happen to me day-in and day-out? I guess so I have an abundance of fodder for the website. Yesterday, I walked in at 1pm. What found me? Let's see:
- 10 scripts dropped off waiting to be input
2 transfers needing to be called on
No doctor calls had been made...none
2 days worth of orders not put up
Stock bottles laying everywhere
5 people in line at the register
2 people in line at drop off
Tech and pharmacist each on the phone
3rd line is ringing
20 or so orders needing to be checked
3 "problem" orders needing to be handled
Where the hell does one even start? Feverishly, I took to work. Another tech straggled in a few minutes after me. Between she and I, and the two that let this madness ensue, we got caught up after about 5 hours of head-pounding-on-counter bliss.
You know what the bitch of it is? At 1pm they had only filled 50 or so prescriptions. That's 12 or so an hour. That's not an amazing rate - it's not Wag's 100/hr or anything, but for a somewhat-competent tech and seasoned pharmacist, it should be very do-able.
I finished the day with our number at 175. That's not an amazingly high number by any account, or even for my store, but it was never worthy of a 30-45 minute wait because two fat-heads bogged down the whole operation by their ineptitude. And to tell the truth, I don't even blame the tech, I blame the pharmacist. He's too busy dicking around instead of verifying. He's too busy calling because a script MAY say "Xanax 25 mg" rather than accepting the fact that doctors don't understand the concept of a leading zero. He's too busy re-calling on a transfer because the tech that initially called merely wrote down the other pharmacist's first name and last initial rather than full name. He's too busy calling on a faxed Scheduled Rx that's on *our* letterhead (which we would have HAD to send) to verify it actually came from the MD's Office and not the patient's personal computer. Gimme a fucking break...this guy's going to give me an ulcer, a stroke, and/or a horrible bonus...
Sincerely,
TheAngriestPharmacist(tm)(c)(R), LLC, Inc.
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How to lose weight…
Two or three times a week someone comes to the counter with a few over-the-counter "weight lose medicines" and asks the fateful question, "which one of these is better?" Most pharmacists know the answer, "Both of those suck...in fact, all of them suck."
I always tell these people the same thing -- the weight loss meds sold over the counter are all worthless. They are nothing more than vitamins filled with green tea. If you want to lose weight, you have to modify your lifestyle. Eat healthier, exercise regularly, cut down on sweets. Everyone knows this, but they refuse to accept it. Why is that? Cause we can treat every other fucking disease on the planet, why can't we make fat people skinny? I can give someone a pill that works on the beta-cells of the pancreas to increase insulin output, why can't someone take a pill to make them lose weight?
The pessimist in me would say that drug companies don't want to make fat people skinny. What's a risk factor for every disease? That's right, boys and girls, obesity! It's the same concept as a man's razor. Bic and Gillette could make a blade that stayed sharp forever, but what's the point with that if we can bilk 30 bucks a month out of us grizzled guys?
I know Alli works, and I suggest it to the people holding a McDonald's cup while they ask about the diet pills. After outlining the sludgy fart side affect, most people decide to just stay fat than modify their diet.
I started practicing what I preach, recently. I am 6'3" and I weight in between 235 and 240. I wasn't fat, but you could see I had an extra chin and some meat on my bones. I quit drinking soda. There goes about 900 calories (4 sodas on average) a day! At 900 cal x 30 days = 27,000 cal/month = 7-8 lbs! Just by doing that I could lose 8 lbs. Wow! So, I switch to water. My body is hydrated and burns calories dealing with that water. More calories burned! I also stopped eating sweets. I still have some candy now and then but not daily like in the past. I even started doing a little exercise...Not a lot -- let's not get crazy! I walk/jog a few days a week. Not very far either...just around the neighborhood.
The Tally as of now? I'm at 215. That's a weight loss of 25 pounds in around 2 months. That's a little fast I know (1-2 lbs of loss/month is suggested), but the with the sudden lifestyle modifications I made, the weight melted off.
If people would only listen to my fat normal-sized ass.
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