2 posts tagged “pharmacy”

Soooo today Arun, Dmitri, and myself finished tearing apart the pharmacy.  Except for that "constant moving around" part, it was kind of fun - but putting it back on Monday will probably suck.  Sigh.  Arun took a picture with his cell phone of our barren shelving, and once it shows up in my inbox I'll put it up so that you can all marvel at our ability to throw shit in boxes.  Tomorrow, we're working out of what basically amounts to an oversized closet, and I really have no idea how anyone is going to find us.  Hopefully they won't, and I can just sit there all day working sudoku puzzles while I collect overtime.  Huzzah!

I'm pretty sure I've got ringworm on my left arm, it hasn't turned into that weird crop-circle looking thing [yet] but I'm throwing fungicide on it nonetheless.  Naturally, now that I think I've got ringworm I've started to get weird itches all over my body, which I then slather with some fungus killing concoction that Arun picked out... thank heavens it doesn't smell bad or anything.  Ringworm is one of those great gifts that keeps on giving... I'm guessing I got it from either Xiao Wen or one of the ducks that "lets me pet it" (ie, can't run fast enough with a mouth full of bread to avoid me).  I cuddled with Xiao Wen this morning, and when I got home from work this afternoon I picked up one of the baby ducks and played with it.  The little duck feet are so cute!  Either way, I figure I'm probably contributing to the perpetuation of ringworm in the local animal population.  Oops.  Maybe I should turn the ringworm into a pet?

I think I'll call it Allen.

So, I was reflecting on my job yesterday while I drove home.  An hour commute gives you a pretty decent amount of time to contemplate!  I really enjoy the pharmacy - I think the medications are interesting, my pharmacists are awesome, the customers are nice, and I *adore* the organizational aspect that comes to managing an inventory.  The only bad part is that I really feel like I've become jaded about people.

For example... the guy that shows up to buy a pack of insulin syringes for his visiting diabetic uncle?  Bullshit.  He's a drug dealer.  The woman that shows up with prescriptions for methadone, percocet, and lortab and tells us that she's got a back problem?  What the hell ever.  She's addicted or selling.  The doctors that write these prescriptions?  They're all irresponsible quacks who hand out these prescriptions to keep people coming back.

I know that these absolutes aren't always true, but they really start to FEEL true.  There's only so many times you can fill a prescription of Xanax for someone that you see later walking around the store in a drug-induced haze before you start to think that everyone who gets Xanax is abusing it.  I know that some people are honestly sick or injured, some people buy syringes and actually use them to inject insulin, I know that benzodiazepines can be part of legitimate therapy to help people.  You just start to lose heart after awhile and it feels like almost everyone is suspect.  I'd really like to get back to the point where I trust first and suspicion later, instead of the other way around. :-)