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Why does the pharmacist take so long?

Started by sevendaughters, September 08, 2019, 08:35:40 AM

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kngen

Quote from: Konki on September 08, 2019, 10:10:15 PM
Science nostalgia ephemera, mate. Looks nice and weird for the punters. "You don't understand our weird, magical ways."

You don't know how happy I am to have my idle musings confirmed. Pretty sure you're all still working on alchemy though - the real kind, not that lead-into-gold pish.

kngen

Apropos of nothing, I can buy booze in my chemists (this being 'murica and all). I'm really torn between whether that's a great or a terrible thing.


It's a terrible thing, but there's a certain bleak, sordid joy in picking up my scrip of Naltrexone along with a bottle of Pinot Noir.

Elderly Sumo Prophecy

Quote from: kngen on September 09, 2019, 01:53:30 AM
Apropos of nothing, I can buy booze in my chemists (this being 'murica and all). I'm really torn between whether that's a great or a terrible thing.


It's a terrible thing, but there's a certain bleak, sordid joy in picking up my scrip of Naltrexone along with a bottle of Pinot Noir.


Almost like they want you to off yourselves. Have a bottle of voddy with your pills. Go on, make an occasion out of it.

Replies From View

Do they still do those lollipops that are cast from real whistles?  Those were fucking ace.

Paul Calf

Yeah. They used to be called 'Toot Sweets' but now they're 'Melody Pops' and made by Chupa-Chups.

One note does not a melody make! but what do your Spanish know about music, eh?

PlanktonSideburns

Quote from: sevendaughters on September 08, 2019, 11:26:21 AM
I know they're busy but, and hear me out: I have a prescription for a basic as hell drug. It's there on the shelf under 'A'.

Anusol?

Icehaven

#96
Following the current guidelines about not cluttering up GP surgeries with minor ailments and seeking advice in pharmacies instead, having had a nasty cough for over a week I went into my local pharmacy (which is actually directly underneath my flat), explained what kind of cough it was and asked if they could recommend anything. She looked a bit blank then turned round and scanned the shelves, found a bottle of Corvonia, scrutinised the label then said ''It says this is for coughs.'' Cheers love, could probably have worked that out myself.




sevendaughters

to save us from 3 pages of guesswork, apixaban. Had a blood clot.

poodlefaker

The question we should be asking is why does the pharmacist have to work a foot higher than the rest of the shop?

imitationleather

Quote from: poodlefaker on September 09, 2019, 10:31:07 AM
The question we should be asking is why does the pharmacist have to work a foot higher than the rest of the shop?

So they can see who is thinning and know who to recommend all the treatments they're on a sweet commission from Big Bald to shift.

Buelligan

Quote from: poodlefaker on September 09, 2019, 10:31:07 AM
The question we should be asking is why does the pharmacist have to work a foot higher than the rest of the shop?

They're high because they have to eat everyone's drugs.  That is why.

touchingcloth

I bet pharmacist's wives love it when their customers ask for Viagra, don't they? Because they would then have to eat all of the Viagra and they'd CUM home rock hard, which is what wives like isn't it?

What happens when a lady pharmacist eats all the Viagra?

Icehaven

Quote from: touchingcloth on September 09, 2019, 01:44:50 PM
I bet pharmacist's wives love it when their customers ask for Viagra, don't they? Because they would then have to eat all of the Viagra and they'd CUM home rock hard, which is what wives like isn't it?

What happens when a lady pharmacist eats all the Viagra?

The pharmacy I live above has huge Viagra ads in the window in the form of massive boxes, as if there's Viagras the size of dustbin lids inside.

touchingcloth

Quote from: icehaven on September 09, 2019, 02:00:40 PM
The pharmacy I live above has huge Viagra ads in the window in the form of massive boxes, as if there's Viagras the size of dustbin lids inside.

Imagine what that would do to a willy!!!!

Fambo Number Mive

It would swell up to the size of a cello case and then burst.

Small Man Big Horse

One of the pharmacists I had in Kilburn was insanely rubbish, always claimed that the GP had fucked up and not sent the prescription through when he couldn't be arsed to look for it, and sometimes sat by the counter eating a kebab and chips with his hands covered in ketchup without a care in the world, which led to lots of ketchup covered medication. Obviously that was fantastic for me back then, I'd take free ketchup any way I could, but others didn't like it. In the end my GP told me to change to a different chemist as he was so sick of everyone complaining about the guy, and I'd be amazed if he was still in business.

My current pharmacist is lovely though. Always asks how I am, serves me quickly, asks if there's anything else she can do to help, and gave me a free flu jab last year, which clearly shows she loves me. And now that I'm single again I'm going to propose any time now.

Al Tha Funkee Homosapien

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on September 09, 2019, 03:26:58 PM
... sometimes sat by the counter eating a kebab and chips with his hands covered in ketchup without a care in the world, which led to lots of ketchup covered medication.

Probably had the "munchies" from all the drugs he was trying out in the back.

Replies From View

You know pharmacists yeah


Well how come they are so fucking shit

Twit 2

Reckon it may be the drugs they're on: the drugs they're supposed to be dispensing but are actually eating for themselves.

Konki

Been off all day blowin chunks outta both ends. Haven't been able to stomach any drug sandwiches. It's a fucking disgrace.

Cuntbeaks

Quote from: Paul Calf on September 09, 2019, 07:57:20 AM
Yeah. They used to be called 'Toot Sweets' but now they're 'Melody Pops' and made by Chupa-Chups.

One note does not a melody make! but what do your Spanish know about music, eh?

Actually. The sticks have a wee slider in them that allows for a range of notes that are numbered on the stick. There is also a tune printed in numbers inside the wrapper for you to peep along to.

Non Stop Dancer

Quote from: Replies From View on September 09, 2019, 07:48:21 AM
Do they still do those lollipops that are cast from real whistles?  Those were fucking ace.
Chemists had all the best weird sweets didn't they. Glucose tablets, Horlicks tablets. All the best weird sweets.

Non Stop Dancer

Zubes, Fisherman's Friends, Victory V. All the sweets.

canadagoose

Jeez, I've not had a Melody Pop for ages. Used to like getting those from the chemist's at the health centre when I was little. That and the Chupa Chups lollies. I don't think I ever managed to make a tune on them, though.

Calistan

I work in a pharmacy as one of those dispensing monkeys. It can be quite stressful and impatience really doesn't help things. Apparently each script should take a minimum of five minutes to safely gather, check and dispense. So if some poor bastard comes in with a bunch of scripts it can take a bit of time. I've noticed men find it very hard to wait. Women will occupy themselves looking at Yankee candles or other bullshit but the men just fucking glare at you.

Surgeries do seem to get things wrong quite a lot. Examples would be not signing the prescriptions, ballsing up dosages, or even handing out prescriptions to the wrong people (just from being in the job too long I'm familiar with a lot of the patients, so when I see a posh older woman handing in a script that has the name of a member of the travelling community whose young kid has robbed from us I inform them that they should probably return the script and double check what they receive next time). Not that we don't make mistakes either, it's surprisingly easy, which is why it's good to have at least a couple of people in the dispensary alongside the pharmacist.

I haven't had a doctor's appointment since I was about fourteen and back then I thought pharmacies were really boring and depressing places. I was spot on. "I might as well move in here", "I've cleared the shelves" and "that's my shopping done for the day" are some of the witty things we hear on a daily basis. Some day I'll escape the pharmacy world and find a job that pays better than minimum wage. Pretty grim.

Also, I would like to confirm that pharmacists do spend a lot of time trying the drugs for themselves.

easytarget

Pharmacists taking the drugs themselves? That's pretty funny.

touchingcloth

Quote from: Non Stop Dancer on September 09, 2019, 07:22:01 PM
Chemists had all the best weird sweets didn't they. Glucose tablets, Horlicks tablets. All the best weird sweets.

I love the weird "medicinal" sweets like Army & Navy lozenges, Cough Candy, aniseed twists, strong liquorice and those hot little cinnamon pebbles. I'm not sure if this is because I've got an odd palate, or because I realised at a young age that some sweets, while rank, are not things that people want to cadge.

touchingcloth

Quote from: Calistan on September 09, 2019, 11:08:33 PM
I work in a pharmacy as one of those dispensing monkeys. It can be quite stressful and impatience really doesn't help things. Apparently each script should take a minimum of five minutes to safely gather, check and dispense. So if some poor bastard comes in with a bunch of scripts it can take a bit of time. I've noticed men find it very hard to wait. Women will occupy themselves looking at Yankee candles or other bullshit but the men just fucking glare at you.

1. take off shelf, 2. look at back of packet, 3. hand to customer, right?

What's the remaining 4 minutes and 57 seconds taken up with? Eating some drugs for yourself?