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 [...]

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 [...]

Unless you live in a box, you all are well aware that we are in a nationwide Metoprolol Succinate (Toprol XL) shortage.  This is caused by Ethex getting spanked by the FDA and not allowing to sell drugs in the US. Now what makes me angry about this, is that the only other manufacturer of [...]

DTC Advertising – Direct to Consumer Advertising.  Everyone has seen the “Ask your doctor about whocares, a new drug to help you sleep/screw/be-happy” commercials on the TV.  These are the steaming turd in the diaper of medicine. Lets take a stereotypical patient.  While he/she is sitting around leeching on the taxpayer dollar watching Judge Judy [...]

Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Plavix reps are on the top of my drug-rep shit list.  Lets take a trip down memory lane a few years ago. A long time ago (2006 to be exact),  there was generic Plavix on the market.  While Plavix remained at $5/tablet, the generic was (if I remember correctly) $20/#100.  I know it [...]

I really hate doing clue-bat entries, but from some of the comment/emails I have received regarding my previous post about tobacco sales in pharmacies some/most of you ‘don’t get it’.  Either I worded it wrong, or people just saw “Tobacco + Pharmacy + Stupid” and jumped to conclusions. I’m not saying that pharmacies should sell [...]

Most (if not all) of you have heard in the news about banning the sales of Tobacco products in pharmacies.  Now I’m sure some of you non-retail people are sitting back in your big expensive chairs and are saying “Well that’s great!  Smoking is bad! Hooray for common sense!  I’m a health care professional and [...]

Stupid drugs piss off pharmacists, its a known fact.Stupid doctors who listen to drug-reps as if they were the second coming of whoever piss off pharmacists. Combine the two, and you get 2 classes of doctors:Dermatologists and Dentists.  Notice how they both start with D as well as the word Dumbass and Dipshit. Take a [...]

Alright boys and girls.  We have seem to have a bit of confusion in the patient/crackhead/doctor worlds as to the proper strengths and naming of various hydrocodone products. I’m tired of seeing Rx’s for Vicodin 7.5/500 or Lortab 7.5/750.  Quit making yourself look like an idiot in front of your local pharmacist and heed my [...]

What could make drug reps even more annoying and obnoxious?  Arm them with little plastic coupons for free drugs, that’s how. I want to go on record to say that I hate 3/7/10/30-day one-time-use drug freebie cards.  These bane of my profession entitle the member to a free fill of a certain drug.  We input [...]