Middle week rant

I am annoyed.

Medical assistants in my place anyways, are allowed to prescribe drugs for diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and so on and so forth. The person in charge agreed to it. Of course the doctors will be checking. They will counter-sign the prescription afterwards. Here is my problem. Say the MA give a supply of 3 months, the prescription will only be counter-signed after three months. Because that's when the pharmacy collects the scripts and send it to the doctor to be counter-signed.

Secondly, the drugs that the MA are prescribing are like Ticlopidine and Simvastatin. They are List B items. No shit.

Thirdly, I know the reasoning that person in charge give would be because the patient is stable and the MA is probably writing the same thing that patient had previously. But dude, how can ticlopidine 250mg become 25mg. You are not even copying it right. Like wtf. You can't even copy something word for word right. Seriously. Something is wrong with you.

I know the patient load is a lot. But here's an idea. Maybe if we start charging those pesky school kids that come to the place by the truckload even though they are not even sick. Then these damn kids will stop coming. Charge them five bob each time. Seriously. And if you think I am being unsympathetic, just hear this scenario out.

5 school kids come to the counter to collect their prescriptions.

Kid no.1 has constipation.

Kid no.2 has diarrhoea

Kid no. 3 has cough

Kid no.4 just went for a visit to the dentist

Kid. no 5 has conjunctivitis

So you mean to tell me, all these school kids who happen to be friends at the same time, had to come and see the doctor for different ailments. Shit. I say you shut down the school and call it a day. Because the school area should be closed down. Too many people are getting sick from going to school.

OMG seriously