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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: November 2010
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Thursday, November 18, 2010. I took the suggestions of friends and readers who commented on my posts. I made what many self-help gurus would say were healthy attempts at picking up the pieces of my life and moving on. However, no matter how hard I tried, my life always came crashing right back to square one. I know. I struggled with it for a long time. It's hard to come up with a reason to go on when you don't believe there's any real point to all of thi...The f...
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: "You're Lucky to Have a Job"
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Tuesday, March 15, 2011. You're Lucky to Have a Job". I should be sleeping right now. I have to get up less than 6 hours from now in order to get ready to open the pharmacy tomorrow morning. I just really felt I had to get this post done. I've been wanting to write it for a week now, but I've been putting it off for various reasons. Anyway. I was going insane. She listened for about 30 seconds before saying, "well, just be happy you have a job." You see, wor...
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: Another Prescription Error That Could Have Easily Been Avoided
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Another Prescription Error That Could Have Easily Been Avoided. I'm going to turn this blog into ranting and raving against the forces in our profession that seek to put the public in danger. My focus will be on prescription errors, and how often the simplest of things can help avoid them. The 3 prescriptions were for 3 different pain medications. They were from the same doctor's office, written in the same pen, and given to the pat...
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: January 2011
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Tuesday, January 11, 2011. The Anatomy of a Prescription Error. It should be an easy day. It's a Thursday. Thursdays are never really that busy in this pharmacy. The big order doesn't come until tomorrow. You don't have to create an order. It's in the middle of October, and while flu shots are really starting to pick up, you haven't had enough of them to really impact your work day. Therefore, despite the at least 30 minute wait time, customers routinely return ...
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: My Technician's Kid Gets Sick Means I Work More
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Tuesday, April 5, 2011. My Technician's Kid Gets Sick Means I Work More. This is a serious question to all you working parents out there: What do you do when your kids get sick? This really pisses me off. Why does her kid getting sick mean I have to work my ass off even more than I usually do in order to pick up the slack left by our absent employee? Oh, by the way. Driving kids from one activity to another is not hard work! And every time I hear someone complai...
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: March 2010
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Sunday, March 14, 2010. The Weekend is Almost Over. Sure, medication has it's place. However, I just feel like in my pharmacy, most of the drugs we dispense are unwarranted. I mean, how can the most prescribed drug in the United States be Vicodin? Why do we have to keep more Percocet in stock than HCTZ? How come every child in the world now gets Ritalin, Adderal, Concerta, and now Vyvanse? Furthermore, what happens if we just took all these drugs away? No, a flo...
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: August 2010
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Tuesday, August 31, 2010. This is a question to the audience: What is your employer's policy on sick time? I only ask because I can't figure out if my company even has a policy. Any member of our regular non-pharmacist staff gets 5 paid sick days per year. However, there seems to be no limit to the number of times a person can call out sick to work without being penalized other than not getting paid. Does it work like this in other companies? I complained about ...
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: May 2011
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Writing to Keep My Mind Sharp. For the past couple of weeks, I've felt an urge to write. The only problem is that I can't think of suitable topics. Therefore, I've produced nothing. Basically, the intent of this post is to just write for a little bit to see if something worthwhile comes out of it. I find those kind of posts the most intellectually stimulating. As I'm writing them, I can literally feel different areas of my brain come t...
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy: Writing to Keep My Mind Sharp
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Retail Pharmacy, Life, and General Lunacy. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Writing to Keep My Mind Sharp. For the past couple of weeks, I've felt an urge to write. The only problem is that I can't think of suitable topics. Therefore, I've produced nothing. Basically, the intent of this post is to just write for a little bit to see if something worthwhile comes out of it. I find those kind of posts the most intellectually stimulating. As I'm writing them, I can literally feel different areas of my brain come t...
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