Personal Responsibility

Personal Responsibility:

Ensure that you actually come and collect your refill medications.

Today is the 26th of March. If you have not come and collect your medication since the 19th of February and your next appointment is on the 5th of May, that means I am perfectly within my rights, to supply you up to your next appointment only. True or False?

Answer: False. Because when the patient has a friend who is one of the pharmacy technicians..all the patient has to do is just go and talk to his friend.. and thereby overturning your decision. *Damn pissing off.

Be responsible for your child's medication.

Scenario 1: If you have a prescription for your child who is only 8 years old, you are expected to listen to what the pharmacist has to say while the pharmacist is dispensing. Common sense right?

What you don't do. You don't send your 8 year old kid to the counter and expect us to explain all the instructions to the kid while you are actually there sitting on the chair and staring at us. And after that, turn around and ask us to explain you again what you were supposed to do. This could have been avoided if you had just got your lazy ass off the chair and came up to the counter.

Read the instructions that are written on the medication.

I wrote there Paracetamol syrup 5 ml 3 times daily. Parents then came back and ask me, so I am supposed to give them 5 times a day. Err what? come again?

I give up.

Non-pharmacy related

I would just like to point out that those money that is being thrown around like candy belongs to the taxpayers.

OMGWTF.

And you thought people couldn't get any more stupid.

Then today happened.

God bless this country.

ridiculous

last month, a PRA from the admin office got transferred away and since our pharmacy just received 2 new PRAs, they requested to borrow one til they get a new one. so we agreed to let our PRA go for one month. this month, they requested for an extension.

now even when one PRA has gone, the office actually still has another PRA. but guess what they use that PRA for. cooking. yes, they have their own private cook. where got such thing right?! since their building used to be temporary accomodation for newly transferred people, they have a kitchen there. so their existing PRA cooks for them and they want our PRA to do what their PRA is actually supposed to do, which according to our PRA, can actually be done by one person. so if they actually used their PRA for her real job, they wouldn't need our PRA at all.

wth la. small hospital really, people just simply do as they please. so we decided that we will loan them our PRA for one month at a time until they get tired of asking us. sheesh.

I tried and I tried.

But I can't overcome myself.

I can't.

New person

Hi, i'm kimi. I work in a community pharmacy somewhere in an obscure part of a supposedly first world country but actually third world mentality. I think you know who I am.

I am going to rant here.

A week ago, my superior called us over for a slight discussion. Apparently, we were being complained for firstly not dispensing in the front counter and secondly not helping with the pre-packing.

Obviously, he could see the annoyance on both of our faces when he said that. When he asked us whether we had anything to say to that, I said no. Because firstly, I don't trust my superior. He probably say one thing to us and then say another thing to the people who complained.

So this brings me here. My colleague and I take turns dispensing, meaning one person being in the front counter and the other one filling behind because it is tiring to be talking to patients all day long, and secondly, the help behind is no help at all. I'm angry because they have the nerve to say that they have been dispensing all day. I dispense in front and then I run behind to fill 10 baskets, then I run back in front to dispense. At least I don't sit behind the desk and pretend to do some work.

Secondly, on us not helping with the pre-packing. Well I'll be damned. I would like to point out that I have been doing a damn lot of pre-packing and if you are too fucking blind to see it, I promise you, tomorrow I am just gonna sit at the front counter, dispense as fast as I can, but I am not going to run behind and help. Yes I am a vindictive bastard, but you can whine about it all you want. And I don't care about the waiting time anymore. Usually I would try to keep it under 20 minutes, but you know apparently doing so much for them, and then they turn around whine about it is going to just get you in trouble. I say just let the waiting time go over 30 minutes and write the report explaining why. Oh P.S best part is I write the report. I can imagine the report already, lack of staff co-operation, staff always disappearing for morning breaks, no pre-packing ( hey, none of my problem, it's not in my job description, when i helped them, they bitched about it, so why bother?)

Thirdly, I realize the country that we live in with their notoriously lazy government servants, will never EVER develop as a progressive country. Period. For us, its all style over substance.

( But that shall be another story for another day) And I can tell you this, the only reason, I am in this job right now, its because they are holding my license hostage. And to get it back I have to work for four freaking years. Its four years of my youth. And at the same time, we are not allowed to do locum until the third year of our service.

I'm going to take up kickboxing.