Incompetence at its finest

I have seen some stupid stupid things in the 7+ years I have been doing this. I have seen a 'prescription' written in crayon on notebook paper. I have seen a person alter a prescription with a pen of a different color. I have had someone deny picking up something even though I show them the video that clearly shows them. Today put all of those to shame.

Now we fill scripts for a couple of group homes and half way houses. Needless to say these people are a little... well off. Most of them come from the main psychiatric clinic downtown. On of these homes happens to be about 10 blocks from this clinic.

About noonish we received some discharge orders for a gentleman at this home. It was a normal list of meds for this type of home until we looked at the bottom. There was a note said that he was walking to the home from the clinic.

Think about this for a moment. This gentleman was quite literally just released from the psych ward and was allowed to walk the 10 blocks to the group home he was to be staying at. Does this sound strange to anyone else? But wait, there's more. With discharge orders we also receive a list of diagnosis. Here's what was listed:

• Suicide ability (Both plan and attempts)
• Manic Depression
• Personality Disorder
• Schizophrenia

We are located on a very large body of water, that clinic is no more than 25 yards from the shoreline. Now for a person who has planned and attempted suicide before do you think it is wise to let someone out near such an easy way of escape? Not to mention the other disorders this gentleman has.

You have to wonder just what the hell the doctors and nurses were thinking when they agreed to this. We're not specialized in that field at all and we immediately saw the red flags with this problem. As of 6pm tonight he still had not shown up at this home. One can only hope that he be found and which ever dumbasses let him go are held accountable.

Week from Hell

I have never experienced a week like this in the nearly four years I have been in college. I have had four fucking tests this week. One in Biology, a Biology Lab Practical, a Physics test and an Organic Chemistry test. Tack on the fact that I have a 2 hour work meeting tonight and its become like the perfect storm of clusterfucks.

Needless to say I've been a little tired, even more so bitch. And I am crackin me a beer when I get off work at 6pm tomorrow night. All hail the beer!

New Look

I'm playing with a new look for the site. Have to fix the blog header here, but that'll come probably over the next few days.

Some changes:

• Links are now at the very top of the page
• There is a new search feature
• RSS Feed will be added shortly
• Added a chat box
  

If people do not like this new look I have the old one saved to my hard drive and can easily switch back. Feel free to leave feedback.

Idiot of the Day

First phone call of the day was from a woman in her mid 20s. She was upset at us. Why you might ask? Because we filled her birth control on a Wednesday.

Now let us step back a minute here. First off she was upset that SHE called in her refill on a Wednesday and we filled it. Funny how that works eh?

Why was she upset that it was filled on a Wednesday? Because she only wants it filled on Tuesday's as thats when her cycle starts.

Once again.... huh?

I explain to her that she could just call it in on Tuesday herself as its difficult for us to remember something like that when she calls in. She decided that no, that was our job for her. Then I said that just because we filled it on a Wednesday doesn't mean she has to take it on a Wednesday and fuck up her cycle.

She then accused me of wanting to get her pregnant so we could squeeze more money out of her and her future child and that she needed to get it filled on a Tuesday otherwise aliens would sprout out of her rectum... ok I made that last part up, sue me.

Honestly what the fuck does it matter what day of the week we fill something on? The scary part? I wasn't in the ghetto today, I was in the 'affluent' section of the city. Great way to start the day me thinks...

Interesting Fact

I discovered last night that when you go to google and type in 'Midget Transvestite Porn' this blog is the first link returned. Wonder what the hell that means..

Good Tunes

The three big things in my life are pharmacy, NASCAR and music. I have a wide range of music I enjoy and I decided I should perhaps share some of my less main stream tastes just for shits and giggles.

Lately I have been getting into this band called Apocalyptica. They're a Finnish cello rock band (I have some eclectic tastes) most well known for doing some Metallica covers. I figured the first song I would post would be one of their more well known ones. I love instrumental songs and its interesting to see a version of such a well known song performed this way. This is the live version which I rather prefer (you can find the album version on youtube)