MoonShark

Oh wow, that looks epic when it's written down, but it's really just the daily grind at a pharmacy. Thanks for sharing.

Why do pharmacies still stock Airborne and Zicam and other homeopathic BS on the shelves? Doesn't it undermine legitimate medicine to bilk customers for placebos?

My mom is a pharmacy tech so I can sort of answer that: Basic professionalism mandates that she treat all customers fairly. She's awfully good about that, and I don't know where she gets the patience. But she would come home at dinner (when I still lived at home) and just have to tell u about ol' granny Gertrude and her festering sores, or Joe Redneck who just knocked out all his teeth in a combination motorcycle/roof accident, or Jane Highstrung who calls every 12.6 minutes to see if her anti-anxiety prescription has been filled yet.

So yeah she judges people in her head (especially ones who are rude, or should be seeing a doctor instead of a pharmacist) but she still gives them the professional courtesy and help they need.

Similarly, what's the weirdest drug you're aware of, and why is it weird?

Also: Got any good suppository jokes? ;)

The first reasons I can think of for pharmacists would be safety and accountability. Doctors are busy and imperfect, and sometimes they prescribe without checking for contraindications, or heck, a patient's allergies. Pharmacists can often correct those problems with just a phone call, whereas a patient would have to schedule a new doctor appointment and wait weeks/months to straighten it out... assuming they even know to catch the error!