Drug Trivia and Rants

It had the makings of a perfect fairy tale story:

I cant believe I’m writing this.

So enough with the serious posts about the idiots of the world.

How many of those at home have gotten an Rx that looks something like this:

Unless you live in a box, you all are well aware that we are in a nationwide Metoprolol Succinate (Toprol XL) shortage.

DTC Advertising – Direct to Consumer Advertising.

Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Plavix reps are on the top of my drug-rep shit list.

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’.

Most (if not all) of you have heard in the news about banning the sales of Tobacco products in pharmacies.

Stupid drugs piss off pharmacists, its a known fact.

Alright boys and girls.

As I was taking my customary pharmacy-dookie this morning, I was flipping through the latest Drug Topics when I saw a nice little advertisement for Luvox CR.

As you all have heard/read; Perdue, the maker Oxycontin (AKA: Hillbilly Heroin), decided to sue the shit out of all of the generic Oxycontin manufacturers and cease production (or some patent shit.

So, it has come to my attention (a few days ago) that Airborne must pay 25 million due to a lawsuit claiming that it didn’t work.

So I’ve had just about enough of the boo-hoo bantering about the USA Today article about the baby who received 5x the “normal” amount of amoxicillin and would “writhe in pain”.

You will only find this here at “The Angry Pharmacist(tm)”.

As I have (and we all have) learned in school, a bottle of Humulin R or N is good for 1 month if kept at room temperature or if refrigerated good until the expiration date on the bottle.

A really frustrating part about retail pharmacy is that everything seems to be “my problem”.

Another typical example of the media getting a hold of a medical concept and completely instilling fear and chaos into the unwashed masses.

Once in a while, you’ll get a patient handout for a drug that just cant help but make you laugh.

Some people think that pharmacists are assholes.

I know with the latest Oxycontin crap hitting the fan, people are throwing around the word “addiction” like its going out of style.

So, it looks like Purdue got dinged like 600 kerzillion dollars because “misleading the public about the painkiller‘s risk of addiction”.

**WARNING! Avandia and other prescriptions are hazardous to your health, and only should be prescribed and dispensed under the supervision of people who went to a collective of 15+ years of college and who KNOWS what the hell they are doing.

As you all probably know, good old albuterol (with CFC’s) are no longer being made.

Now the last few entries haven’t been very angry.

I’ve seem to have made a few doctors upset with my last few posts.

Quinine. Yes, quinine.

So I saw DrugNazi’s little soma display window pictures here

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So i’ve been doing some self thinking as to why I get angry at work.

** I got this information sorta second hand, so it might be wrong **

How many of you have been in this position:

As of 9/30/06 – a new sudafed law took into effect.

I know I havent updated in a bit, but to be honest I havent been really angry about anything new and exciting to rant about!

There is one prescription that I know makes every pharmacist get a little bout of acid reflux in their lives:

This last week I got my first experience with that new iPledge program.

Who here in the audience has zero Avandia, AvandaMet or Coreg on their shelves?