Provided by The Pharmacy Chick
I don’t know how many of my readers are golfers, but Pharmacy Chick herself is a total golf nut. Hook, line and sinker, carry me away to the golf promise land, when I die please! Honestly I have no idea (other than a wandering mind) how this post came into being but I decided that there is a startling similarity between pharmacy and golf …when somebody comes up to you with a very common problem.
Golf: you just hit your ball into the water AND Pharmacy: You forgot your medication at home and you are on Vacation:
Both of these happen fairly regularily to both the golfer and the pharmacy patient. Both involve a bit of stupidity on the part of the person. The golfer doffed his shot into the water and the customer forgot to pack a critical item. Either way dude, its gonna cost ya…..
In Golf there are always 3 ways to proceed from an “incident”. And, so I realize there is also 3 ways for the patient to proceed.Therefore Pharmacy chick will compare the 3 options
In Golf you may 1) replay from the original spot (penalty: distance and 1 stroke) IN pharmacy , you may go home and get your med at its original location ( your cabinet): penalty: distance and time
OR: you may 2) play from the water ( not always feasible if its under 10 feet of water, but in the rules it IS an option). in Pharmacy you may 2) suck it up and go with what you got: nothing!
OR you may 3) take your penalty stroke and drop no closer to the hole according to the rules where it last crossed the hazard. In pharmacy you may 3) beg the pharmacy to call and transfer your rx to this new location and pay for the rx that you left behind that your insurance will not cover b/c its too early.
I thought it rather interesting ( in my finite simpleton kind of way) how the 3 golf options rather nicely corresponded to the 3 pharmacy options out there.
In golf you have to just suck it up and figure you are gonna take bogey or worse. Ya write down your score and move on. This is where the similarity ends. In pharmacy I get to listen to endless whining about having to shell out a few shekels for medication that YOU HAVE PLENTY OF, but not with you at the moment. “Cant you call my insurance?” ” How come its so much money! Its only 5 pills” “I only need a few days worth! Why do you have to call my pharmacy?”.
I swear I should serve a plate of cheese with that whine! Suck it up. You left your stuff at home. Take your bogey and move on….please?
The Pharmacy Chick is a retail pharmacist in the Western United States, gutting it out in fairly busy store. She ticks off each day as one more day closer to retirement, after 22 years in the biz. She remember typewriters, rolls of labels, want books, and everybody paid cash. Now all she wants to remember is what all her passwords are!
The viewpoint expressed in this article is the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the viewpoint of the owners or employees at Healthcare Staffing Innovations, LLC.
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