The Angry Pharmacist

Many of you have emailed me asking why I have been so quiet the past month or so.

So obviously more than one of you have noticed that I’ve been quite silent lately.

Dear Staff of Doctors Offices Everywhere,

I don’t mind if a patient calls up and has a question (except if its when their vicodin is due).

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

This entry is dedicated to all of the PA’s and NP’s out there who use a hand-held device (palm pilot, iphone, whatever) to dose medications.

DTC Advertising – Direct to Consumer Advertising.

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

Every retail pharmacist in every pharmacy around the world have dealt with this issue.

As part of my “Dedication to Pharmacy”, I am going to create some patient handouts that you can give to your patients to explain things that you don’t want/have to.

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.

I’m sure this post is full of grammar and spelling mistakes.

Once in a while I get a rather bitter comment from a “Pharmacist” who just got his shiny new degree and license and thinks he knows it all.

So I haven’t poked fun at The Angriest Pharmacist in a while.

See, not only does the pharmacy piss me off, but computers piss me off as well.

I had a run-in with an intern that just made my blood boil.

No no, I’m not going to give our dear friend Ken a good beat-down like some of you have been hoping.

I hate the holidays.

I really get angry when I see a DAW-1 on a prescription.

Stupid drugs piss off pharmacists, its a known fact.

I hate this time of the year.

Alright boys and girls.

Lets face it, pharmacists are between a rock and a hard place when it comes to new prescriptions.

Before I go into a tirade about the population with a chronic Vicodin deficiency, I’ll do some preemptive damage control here.

Its pretty bad when I have a post-it (Upsher-Smith Klor-Con no less) with all the website fodder I think of during the day.

I know I haven’t been posting lately compared to my DrugMonkey and Angriest counterparts.

Pharmacy school students live in a delusional world of pharmacyland.

Is there some sort of paint you can line pharmacies with that will block cell phone reception?

I support the stereotypical platonic family.