{"id":2903,"date":"2022-02-10T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2022-02-10T19:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T00:36:22","slug":"it-says-what%e2%80%bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2903","title":{"rendered":"It says what?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It says what?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s tough being a pharmacist. First of all, it\u2019s all those names of drugs you have to know. And they keep coming up with new ones. Then there are all the people that come into your store and ask you for advice about whatever illness, rash, growth, or contagion that they have. I thought that was what the doctor was for. And you have to sound like an expert, even if you don\u2019t have a clue, or else you will lose their business. What we need is a waiting room for triage prior to entering the drug store. Thank goodness for COVID now, at least these people are wearing masks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst thing about being a pharmacist is that you have to fill prescriptions that are sent in by doctors who have graduated from the Master’s program of illegible handwriting. As a pharmacist, even when you\u2019ve taken the course in your training, Deciphering Physician\u2019s Handwriting 101, it is incredibly hard to read what the prescription says. Usually, I can figure out the dosage and how often it should be taken, but as to the name of the medication, that\u2019s hit or miss.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays, with digital prescriptions, it has become a lot easier, since it is all typed out. However, there are still those old country doctors that haven\u2019t bought into the digital age. They write out all of their prescriptions by hand. At least I think it\u2019s by hand. Sometimes I would swear that they wrote it out by foot, their non-dominant foot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder why drug prices are so high. It\u2019s not because of the big drug companies, vying for money. It\u2019s because of the high costs of insurance needed to cover mistakes in medicine received by patients whose prescriptions can\u2019t be read.<\/span><\/p>\n

They need to invent a digital scanner for druggists that can read and interpret doctors\u2019 handwriting. The person who invents that will make millions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Until then, take a seat in our waiting room, hand in your prescription, and wait 15 or 20 minutes, while we try to contact your doctor, through the myriad of numbers I have to push on our phones to get through to a real person, in order to find out what was actually written.\u00a0 As they say on the answering machine, your visit is important to us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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