Shadowing the Hospital Pharmacist

I can't tell you how many times pharmacists fixed my mistakes back when I was an intern and still did body medicine.

[DGlaucomflecken]

Hey pharmacists sorry about all the weird eye drop orders. I appreciate you.

[Edanite]

I just realised the tally marks are not simply lives they saved. It's the lives they saved from the doctors.

[nel]

The doctor prescribing something incorrectly then immediately leaving the hospital with 0 way to contact them hits too hard LOOL we get this all the time at my pharmacy

[sanjanasinha]

I can legit confirm to when a pharmacist corrected a prescription for my mother when she fractured her knee recently. The doctor completely forgot to account for the fact that she suffers from inflamed thyroid even though we had mentioned it the first thing we got to the hospital. Bless those ever-careful pharmacists.

[silje]

As a pharmacist I can confirm that we are contractually obligated to stand on our feet the whole workday 😂

[knowsutrue]

Both my parents were pharmacists. I remember my father once saying “I never make a mistake; if I make a mistake someone could die.”.

[nicksurfs]

I could not stop throwing up day and night during chemo. They tried every drug, none worked. One day my pharmacist put a note not to give me my medicine without speaking to her first. I thought I was in trouble. But she was just like “ what order do you take these meds?” Ok, if you take them in this order you won’t vomit anymore. “ she was totally right! Totally grateful to her!

[dangerRobertson]

As a pharmacy technician, I can tell you that this is scary realistic.

[bretthuston]

A classic. One of my favorites. Glad it's under proper ownership now.

[_letstartariot]

Pharmacists and nurses save so many people from potential medical mistakes. Bless them.

[danibob]

I want more of this sweet pharmacist who is passive aggressive to doctors

[catt]

My nephew is highly allergic to penicillin. Every time he needs antibiotics, doc prescribes pen based, but pharmacist has caught it every time, got on the phone and sorted an alternative. Love that pharmacist.

[howdyfriends]

for people who don't know, a normal dose of dilaudid (hydromorphone) is between 1 and 8 mg, an upper limit dose would be 24mg over 24 hours.
so 100mg would be more than enough to cause respiratory arrest and death in a healthy person.
but certain other painkillers, like morphine, codeine, or tramadol, can be given in 100mg increments without a problem because they're significantly less strong on a molecular level, dilaudid just binds much stronger to the receptors for some very complicated biochemical reasons

[nevermindthe]

Hospital pharmacist really saved my dad. He was getting overdosed with chemotherapy. Sadly they didnt spot it sooner he got a lot of problems from one he still hasnt fully recovered but had it continued they could easily have killed him. I am hugely grateful to the observant pharmacist.

[Niteangel]

As a hospital pharmacist, we definitely sit down - this isn't retail (although I've worked retail). The back order thing is real though. I wish we could get med students to shadow though!!! Even if for a day.

[OliviaLovesPugs]

I’m chronically ill and I take a lot of medications, and I’m frequently on and off meds. There have been multiple times when I’ve gone to pick up a new prescription written by one of my doctors, or I get a call from the pharmacy, and they tell me that they can’t fill the prescription because it will be dangerous because of interactions with my other meds, my health conditions, etc. Pharmacists really are the last line of defence for patients prescribed medications, and they have definitely saved me a lot of pain and suffering, if not my life. Thank you pharmacists of the world!

[mrs.hermangali]

Rules for success on the floor
#1. Make friends with the nurses
#2. Make friends with the pharmacists
Be nice to everyone and smile

[WakeupAmerica]

Behind every successful Pharmacist is a hard working Pharmacy Tech.

[rwild]

Man access to meds really does change people's lives. Thank you to all the pharmacists/medical personal who help us get what we need.

[kaitlynkilpatrick]

i didn't know the true value of pharmacists until i got to rotations. my school did a terrible job of highlighting proper interdisciplinary respect among the different professions.