Recap of the week

The lessons I learnt this week:

1. Patients are a selfish bunch of assholes

Give them two month's supply of drugs, and they angrily tell you that the doctor said to give them four. And then you tell them that we don't have enough medication to give all patients like that. And they screamed to the whole pharmacy that we ONLY, read ONLY give them two. OMGWTF dude. SOME PATIENTS ARE GETTING ONLY 1 MONTH. AND ASSHOLES LIKE YOU ARE GETTING TWO MONTHS. And is it me, or do you notice, it's only the chinese patients who does this? I am getting so fucking annoyed at it. AND these patients look rich! It's bad enough that they are getting these drugs for free. Seriously.

2. Everybody is looking out for themselves, so you have to take care of yourself first.

I dunno how the system works in your hospital, but we usually take turn dispensing. That was back in JB. I would do 3 hours and then somebody else would do 3 hours. But here, nobody cares. If you are the unlucky one who went first and sat in front of the dispensing counter, then you will be dispensing the whole day! At first when I started here, I would usually forgo breakfast so that I could help with the dispensing up front. But since everybody is a selfish asshole. I am choosing to ignore them even if it is super busy, and force myself to have some breakfast first. Hey, they do it to me. And then after that now, they changed the oncall list and now we have oncall once a month. I really did the oncall last week. It was three freaking days. And they wanted to put me oncall again this week and I put my foot down. No way! If I spend another week here withought going back KL, I will shoot myself.

3. K'tan is full of assholes.

Someone scratched my car! Seriously. I didn't park my car in any way that was obstructing another vehicle, or obstructing your house. But I am suspecting my neighbour. There is this parking space that both houses share, when I am early I get it, when I am running a little late, he gets it. But hey, that's no reason to scratch my car. It's a public parking space. It works just fine with me.

SIGH.

so today i went back to the shrink and it was so pointless. or maybe it was just me. i certainly dont feel like cooperating. i certainly wanted to be anywhere else but there.

so this is how it feels like to be on the other side of the counter... everyone just wants to cure you, and starts getting impatient when you dont get cured. it's all your fault. why cant you try harder.

well i dont know how it is to try harder. i dont know what to try harder at. i know i'm wasting your precious (sincerely said, cos i know you're all very busy) time, but i dont know how to get better enough to suit you. and this is why you see me hiding things from you. it's because i'm confused with what constitutes improvement, and what doesnt.

give up on me. please. let me be. i think i can get better that way. transfer me out if you must. not like i know where to go or what to do, it's so ironic how you make that sound so simple, look here, we're giving you 8 days mc to think about properly, what you want. it's not like i can get what i want, right. what's the point in thinking what i want. just makes for more frustrated hope. HOPE IS A STUPID BITCH.

3 more years of this shit. if what you say is correct, that i'm medically incapable, then what am i fit to do? you're the one who tied me down for this long. am i just going to be shuffled from department to department, hospital to klinik, etcetera to etcetera? you dont know what to do with me, therefore you want to get rid of me.

shrink says i should face up to my weaknesses, and stop blaming other people. I BLAME YOU. I BLAME YOU FOR CONVINCING ME THAT I'M INSANE.

i loved my job. i loved helping people, finding out the small things that could make the difference. i'm one of the best at talking to patients, only you never see that. i'm only like this because you took it all away from me.

i'm on leave again. fuck.

maybe i'm crazy maybe i'm a danger to medication safety maybe i should be relieved from my post due to health reasons.

fuck.

i'm not depressed. i'm fucking pissed off.

do we have to wait til we finish 3 years to do that continuation course, formerly jaybeep? cos i want out of this country now.

kajian kepuasan pelanggan farmasi

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most people at the hospital are sick so keep the place silent - you people keep quiet la.
sediakan bahan bacaan - you know you will have a long wait so bring your own la.

upgrade entertainment system??!!!! - you pay for it la! you come hospital for treatment or entertainment?? obviously the hospital is boring. bring your own entertainment la.

my goodness some of these patients. and keep asking us to smile more. how to smile the whole day la. they don't even smile at us.

and you probably can't see, but some of those green comments actually talk abt 1malaysia and the pm's vision. omg, dunno if some of these comments are serious or just too bored coz no entertainment.

Lately everything has just been overwhelming.

Not work. I am just bored off my ass in work.

This is my calculation. I am already sort of in my second year. So I will finish govt service in 2012 around Oct right.

Then say I get to start straightaway in UK doing that continuation program, I will finish in 2013.

After 2013, I probably have to do the pre-reg there which is one year, and then I will take the RPSGB exam in 2014.

OMFG. Do you know how many years that is?

I will be 28 that time. OMG. And how the bloody hell am I going to get married too at the same time.

*cries.

You know who I blame?

I BLAME IMU! Fucking IMU. Money sucking institution.

:'(

And I am starting to feel everything is not worth the effort. I don't know what the hell I am doing.

I'm on a one week break. Since Monday, although Monday was spent mostly orchestrating the one week break and various handing overs and cram-briefing a PRP regarding ICU before I embark upon my one week break. And then just hanging around trying to find something to do... the one week break was like a black hole giving me the evil eye and I was looking at anywhere but it. Finally the U48 Y/M tasked me to draw up two paintings, one each for the paeds ward. And so she sent me packing.

Tuesday I was still lost. Actually I was starting to enjoy the break but felt guilty for doing so... bought a couple of music mags which came with free cds so essentially I was buying cds for 11 bucks each :D

Wednesday I already gave into the morphia of the one week break. Gosh, must it ever end... did my hair into the figurative up yours of hair colouring limits of the civil servant... got myself 2 murakamis... got the paints and the drawing block paper and the ideas fizzing in my head...

Thursday I drew up the snail on a magic carpet ride carrying the whole world on its back (yeah pratchettian) on a collision course with a salt shaker comet. Then went buffet dinner with the parents with 3 courses of diarrhoea, and then cocktails with Adeline at Marriot. And we steadfastly missed the countdown and the balloon-popping kids that came with the package. And then came home and surfed Gucci bags with the stepmom.

So tai-tai I know.

And I could get used to this... not the datin lifestyle per se, but the whole anything-but-work persona... I know this sympathy leave will not last forever... actually it shouldn't, and the sooner I get back to work the better... but oh gosh the sheer white blankness of mind as I slowly go about the day. I'm not exactly getting my sanity back but I sure am letting my nerve endings heal... I love this. I love the immensity of space to do or not do, whatever I want.

And I love my job... I know this is a squeaky thin argument versus my current state of mind... I'm slowly getting competent at what I do and the returns are immediate... yet it takes a lot of me. I'm giving up too much for this job, and I thought it would feed me... but oh well. No marathon without hundred plus.

I need to get myself back. Nutrition. Thing is, once I start working again I won't have time for music and books and imagination. I can't always use collapsing as a marker for breaks. How.

Community pharmacy rant

Community pharmacy is BORING!

BORING! BORING! BORING!

And when the patient comes with multiple prescriptions and there no technicians there and you are the only one, you just feel like crying. Because the filling station is separated from the dispensing counter, I would have to walk all the way to the back just to fill those prescriptions. Now imagine, five patients with multiple prescriptions come along, because their sons, daughters, aunties, uncles are all sick, and they decided to have a family day at the doctor's. Bloody hell.

Secondly, I hate patients who ran out of medications and they have no prescription slip, but they come to you with the appointment book and say " I don't have enough medication but the doctor told me that all I have to do is just show you the book and you will give me the medication".

Are you fucking kidding me? YOU LAZY DOCTOR. YOU COULD HAVE JUST WRITTEN A PRESCRIPTION FOR HIM. BUT NOOOOO...."Just show the pharmacy and they will know what to do". WTF. IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY ANYWHERE IN THIS WORLD.

Wait not done yet. Wanna know what is the best part after that? The patient never blames the Doctor and instead just yells at you for not doing what the doctor told you to do. Then after that, he called me a cina! Nice, uncle, just nice, and I suppose you are not chinese also la, you stupid patient. If you don't have a prescription, that means we gave you enough medications to last you till your next appointment ok. I should know! because I dispensed it. I hate chinese patients. Just because you're chinese and I'm chinese, don't think we are gonna be all buddies and i am gonna give you a few tablets just like that.

Then you have the stupid old ladies, who after you given them their medication and they looked shocked when you tell them the medication is for one month only, and then they protest "BUT I WANT TO TAKE IT IN *insert random clinic name"? WELL, WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTION THAT WHEN YOU GAVE ME YOUR PRESCRIPTION EARLIER"? They act as if I was supposed to know about that. It doesn't work like that, Aaarrgghhhh. * Grumpy Jaybeep snatches prescription and does the transfer. And this happens like 5 times a day. It's a small clinic ok, I wouldn't complain that much if we had more people, but there's only me in front.

And people, this medications are free. So IF I WANT TO GIVE YOU ONE MONTH, STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW YOUR BUS RIDE COST TEN BUCKS. Because no.1 no bus ride costs ten bucks, and if it were ten bucks, I would say it's really cheap because your medications cost a few hundred. So be happy with one month. And its not like you have to wait very long for your medications. On a good day, at most its ten minutes, and on a bad day, with CK and I in front and the full force behind, it's twenty minutes, so quit your whining.

Three more years of this, I don't know what lesson God is trying to make me learn from this. Is it patience, Lord? IS IT?