What a day

So yeah, last Sunday, I went to work w/ 3 hours of sleep. NOT A GOOD IDEA. Almost cause an accident on my 30min drive to work :-P

Anywho, I swear the busy-ness of the pharmacy depends on the Sunday football schedule. I think our manager should schedule the clerks based on that hours.

Some amusing things that happened:
- Some old guy called and ask if we had any Penicillin VK in stock. Guess how long it took the technician who answered that call to do a stock check hahahahah. After we assured him that we had some Pen VK in stock, he proceeded to ask if we can go ahead and fill it for him. No, the doctor hasn't called it in, he's sitting at home with the prescription in his hand. Get your ass over to the pharmacy you lazy bum.

- Me, being on 3hours of sleep, almost put away an empty box of Nuva ring in the fridge. Pharmacist thought it was hilarious that I actually for fall it when he tells me to put the box back and I didn't check to see if there's any stuff in there.

- Got 2 cases of angry customers.
Customer 1: Parents "complain" at me about how his doctor had him wait 48hrs before switching meds for his son who's running 100+ fever. Mom thinks he has mono and thus the Augmentin she is picking up ain't gonna help.
My thoughts: thank you for not straight out just screaming at my face. however, I can't really do anything 'cause we're not the prescriber.

Customer 2: I'm fuckin' pissed 'cause I had to wait 2hrs to pick up my daughter's birth control pills. Us: well, you have a photocopy of an rx, so we're gonna need to get the doctor to call in a new prescription. And the ER is not being very cooperative.
[I happened to be walking in on this when I clocked back in from lunch]
My thoughts: Why are you making such a big deal over your daughter's BC pills? Is she having sex tonight or something? btw, ER writes rxs for birth control??

Midterms Panic!!!

>3 weeks before midterms


2 weeks before midterms


7 days before midterms


6 days before midterms


5 days before midterms


4 days before midterms


3 days before midterms


2 days before midterms


1 day before midterms


Day of midterms

:(

Be glad that I don't own a gun or have any pain meds or sleeping pills in my possession right now.

Midterms freak out mode starts now!!!

Today probably foreshadows what will be happening when the hospital opens and we start getting discharge meds. So many batches w/ 6+ meds. There's this one lady who's on meds for every single organ system you can think of. HTN, cholesterol, diabetes, NSAID, statin, SSRI. Yup, she got them all.

Anyway, midterms freak out starts now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I still need to figure out my work schedule 'cause right now they're making me work before midterms :(

Chargers and work

I really need to stop working on Sundays. I'm missing out on a lot of football :-(

Chargers had a bad start last year too, so I'm not too worried about them yet. From what I heard and read about the game today (I guess yesterday now), Denver refs are jacked up.

Reflections

So I've been helping w/ a few interviews this week. These questions kinda get me thinking. Since I didn't feel like studying yet, I'm gonna do this reflection stuff.

Why are you interested in health-system pharmacy?
- Well, after working at Kaiser, I don't know if I'm interested in hospital pharmacy anymore. I still hate the yelling ppl, but I don't really hate the consultations anymore. From doing these consultations, I realize that these ppl need me. Sure, in the hospital, you're doing "smarter stuff" checking the labs and charts and making sure the patients got right dose, etc, but I don't feel like I'm helping them directly. When I'm working outpatient, I get to help all these ppl know more about their drugs, and yeah, like they say. I'm the most accessible health-care professional to them. After helping a lady figure out her glucose meter and teaching someone how to use an inhaler for the first time, I just feel like I did something for them personally. I think the best feeling was when I told a patient about a DDI that he didn't know before, and he genuinely thanked me.

If you could be a character from a show, what would you be and why?
- Dude, I want to be Dr. Cox from Scrubs. Sure, he's a little harsh on the outside, but deep down he cares for the patients and the people that depend on him. He might yell at them and what not, but you see him fighting for them when hospital policy might get in the way of their receiving the best care.

If you could be a drug from you top 200 list, what would you be and w
- I want to be Vicodin so ppl want me hahahaha. j/k j/k. Seriously, I think I want to be penicillin. Sure, a lot of people are allergic to it, but penicillin was the first ever antibiotic. Many lives were saved since its discovery. People aren't dying from minor infections anymore because of it. I want to be able to make a difference in people's lives like it did.

Anxiety Attacks

These past few weeks have been stressful. I had a family emergency which require me skipping the first week of school. So now, I'm a week behind in lectures, so I spent this week desperately trying to catch up. The good news is, I only have one lecture to go before I'm caught up.

On top of that, being an officer for 2 organizations (I totally regret this now) means I'm doing double the work esp. since it's membership drive week. So this week, I'm running around doing stuff for CSHP (which has to have all its events this week for some reason). Now, I have to start catching up on the work I'm supposed to do for the AMCP since I've been putting off stuff to concentrate on CSHP.

The thing is, I don't feel much for AMCP anymore. After being in the organization, I realize that I don't like managed care AT ALL. It's all business and management and I totally hate it. However, I already sign on for the board, so I still feel this obligation. Even though the workload and stress probably requires that I drop one of the boards, I can't. I know a few AMCP ppl are already talking about how I spend way more time on CSHP than AMCP. Like how I make 2 awesome slide shows for CSHP and not AMCP. Well, I would have done a recruiting slide show for AMCP too if they asked. They never did. Oh well, they're pretty much pushing out of the loop anyway.

Lately, I've been having tachycardia (for lack of better terms). I am just chillin' and listenin' to lectures but for some reason, my hear is beating freakin' fast. I can feel it beating hard against my chest. Maybe I'm having anxiety attacks?

Damn, I need Xanax.