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Be a dick, get a gift card!

A wise man (OK, its my employer, fine) told me that the smartest investment a business can make is in its employees.  That’s right, happy employees mean productive employees which are good for the customer, business, everyone. I sure as shit wouldn’t be happy if my employer rewarded complete dickhead patient behavior with gift-cards.  In [...]

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Vaccines, Autism, and Dipshit Jenny McCarthy

By the time you read this, the Vaccine = Autism published by the BJM will be old news (Yes, I do write a bunch of rants at once and have them post at a later date).  However lets take a closer look at this whole situation. Lets keep in mind that I don’t belittle Autism [...]

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Most trusted? Since when?

Everyone has heard that Pharmacists are one of the most “trusted” professions.  Sure nurses yanked that out from under us a number of years ago, but the fact that we are still on the “trusted” scoreboard started to make me wonder what exactly about what we do makes us so “trusted”? Patients dont trust us.  [...]

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

An Xmas poem that beats the shit out of mine

This is taken from Apothecary Tales.  Its too well written and too funny to have me just skip over it: Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house All the crackheads were stirring, much like a crackhead mouse The Promethazine poured, from the bottle with care In hopes that St. Codeine, would bring plenty [...]

Saturday, December 25th, 2010

We wish you a merry Crackmas!

Here are a few things that I have written to celebrate the overly-medicated holiday season: The 12 days of Crackmas: On the twelfth day of Crackmas, my pharmy sent to me: Twelve Prior Auths, On the eleventh day of Crackmas, my pharmy sent to me: Eleven Screaming Patients, On the tenth day of Crackmas, my [...]

Saturday, December 25th, 2010

The truth about California pharmacy tech licenses

Pharmacy tech schools/programs are cropping up around here in California like herpes after the prom.  I, for one, am sick and tired of these schools duping young ignorant students into handing over their hard-earned money to get some half-assed education when they can avoid it all together.  Thats why my friends, I am going to [...]

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Swimming in the Porcelain Pool

I get a lot of drug ad crap in the mail, but once in a while one really attracts my attention in a real ‘WTF were they thinking’ way. Take Exhibit A: Now Miralax is like Metamucil, it makes you poop.  Now I’m not sure what floats your boat, but if I were constipated and [...]

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

XL, ER, and SR (Oh My!)

How many of those at home have gotten an Rx that looks something like this: Wellbutrin 150 QD or Depakote 250 QD or Effexor 75 BID Now how many of those at home after getting these prescriptions felt the urge to slam their face into the counter.  For those not in pharmacy (or for those [...]

Friday, September 24th, 2010

AngryTV – Setting the record straight.

Time to set the record straight as to why I act the way I do (as if there was any question).

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Introducing AngryTV

This isn’t new to people who follow me on Twitter or on Facebook, however I’d like to share with you something that I have made: Stay tuned for more AngryTV (since the site that makes this is AWESOME) as well as some user submitted gems.  If you make one, comment with the link and I’ll [...]

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

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