Theres a skill that should be taught in pharmacy school, but isn’t. Its learning how to hold a straight face. All pharmacists, techs, clerks have been in this situation: You are working along, typical day, when a well endowed (not in the good way) woman comes in obviously not wearing a bra. You think to [...]

Who here wants to drop Humana? Seriously. 2 friggin buck profit from each Rx. Where does Humana get off paying us this? See, this is the inherit problem with the system(tm). Our best customers, the cash paying ones, have to subsidize the losses we take from taking retarded insurance plans like Humana. So who does [...]

There seems to be a common theme among my hate mail: well. You’ve hit my hot button. There are people who are allergic to generic drugs Not the active ingredient but the binders dye, glycerin, etc. So are you going to stop counting pills and make up generics yourself? Hate to break it to you, [...]

You know what pisses me off? When older people want some sort of “Senior Discount”. You heard me, I’m ragging on grandpa here! Nobody is safe from the wrath of The Angry Pharmacist! I am totally against senior discounts. Why? We have to make up that ‘discount’ somewhere else, so we are going to charge [...]

There aren’t many people who I would call my “hero”. So this is really saying something when I write this. Jim Plagakis, you are my hero. Seriously. For those of you with your heads firmly implanted in your anus, Jim Plagakis is a writer for my favorite pharmacy-shitter magazine, Drug Topics. I’ve birthed many brown [...]

Why do patients always expect medication to be free? I’m not talking about something that costs kilo-bucks, but stuff that has like a $3 copay? Example: Person comes in for their monthly HIV medications. Has the balls to stand there and bitch to me how he has to pay a $3.10 copay for each of [...]

Usually my rants are about patients, doctors, the system, etc. This one is about other pharmacies and other pharmacists. We all get copy requests from other pharmacies. For those of you who are playing along at home, when you want your Rx filled at one pharmacy transfered to another pharmacy, there is an unwritten procedure [...]

So I had this idea. I read this book called ‘A-Z of Manliness’ written by Maddox. What if I wrote a book called ‘The A-Z of Retail Pharmacy’. Seriously! Get it published, and get professors to make their students buy it! I mean I can explain retail pharmacy a whole lot better than some professor [...]

As you all probably know, good old albuterol (with CFC’s) are no longer being made. No longer can we get an Albuterol MDI by Warrick for 9.95. Now we get “environmental friendly” pieces of shit for $20/each. I recieved a phone call from a friend of mine who works in the People Republic of California. [...]