Our members come from all walks of life, and we are very lucky to have Rachel, who works in a hospital pharmacy. She is our ‘Pharma Dalai Lama’, since she is always able to balance our frequent rants about our prescription nightmares with an informed view from the other side. She’s also rather knowledgeable about the many and various potions we are urged to consume by our physicians, and can provide down to earth explanations of their purpose and possible effects and interactions which may not always be quite so forthcoming or intelligible from the doctors prescribing them.
In this thread she gave us a guide to the pharmacy and how it all fits together, presented in her usual thorough, but humorous style. It can really help people to know what happens behind the scenes when our pharmacist gets things ‘wrong’ or doesn’t act as we expect, and I think a lot of people are more prepared to retain their composure having read her posts rather than exploding in a boiling rage when the wrong needles are given to us or we are asked to call back next Tuesday!
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