Friday, July 14, 2006

Cannot Make Up the Mind

My in-charge's having a fair share of his stupid patients. A patient came to collect effervescent calcium plus vitamin C tablets. As this is the first time she was taking this supplement she made a lot of enquiries such as whether other patients are also taking the supplement. Hello... does it matter if other patients are taking it as well? What matters is the doctor, in his professional judgement, decided that this particular supplement would meet her health needs. When she found out not many patients collect the supplement at our pharmacy, she started wondering if she should collect the whole lot prescribed by the doctor. This was after we went through the trouble to procure the supplement from another pharmacy in the hospital.

Anyway, she basically started telling my in-charge she could not make up her mind as to how many bottles to take and started asking him what she should do. In the end, my in-charge had to tell her to go sit somewhere to think things through before getting back to him as he had other patients to serve. After a long while she came back saying she would just take 1 bottle. Could tell my in-charge was really annoyed by then as we are now stuck with the supplements that she does not want.

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