Hypocrites

I remembered once we had this particularly problematic patient who refused to budge from the front counter, even though we told her that her supply of medication has not arrived yet. She is the only person on that particular medication (an expensive one, mind you), so we had to buy it for her. And when it did arrive, she wanted two months supply because she had to go Singapore or dunno whatever country she was gadding about to.

What ensue was a long argument between her and my colleague. I was wisely keeping my mouth shut because if I was pulled into the argument, I would have asked her to get her supply from a hospital across Singapore, and then calculate the cost of her medication vs. the cost of transportation yada yada yada. Yes, I am a straight to the point, and I would have probably gotten a letter for saying that.

Anyway, the point of this post was, we found out what she worked as. That bitch, work as a pharmacy technician at a private hospital. Do you get why I am so irritated? She works in the same field as us. So she should understand, how the process works. She should bloody know how much is her medication which is probably why she is taking it from a govt clinic instead of her own private hospital. AND SHE SHOULD KNOW THAT ALL OUR MEDICATIONS ARE FREE AND THAT IS WHY WE CAN'T BLOODY AFFORD TO GIVE HER TWO MONTHS! WE SHOULDN'T EVEN BE BUYING THAT MEDICATION FOR HER WHEN THERE ARE GENERICS AVAILABLE ALREADY.

Yes we have no money. Our money is used for incredibly stupid stuff. Do you think that you patients are the only ones frustrated? I am frustrated with telling everybody, "sorry, we really don't have the stock yet but do please come back on so and so".

Gah!