Attitude Problem?
Okay, I'm officially back to slamming the stupid patients.
I really got to give a hand to the dumb asses of humanity, they really think once they're out of school nobody's going to think they're dumb, or they can get away for being dumb.
Story goes that a stupid husband came to the pharmacy to pick up some medicine for the pregnant wife. I picked up the basket and started dispensing the medicine to the dumb husband. The doctor prescribed lactulose syrup, bisacodyl suppositories, Proctosedyl suppositories, and Flagystatin pessaries. For the sake of the general masses who are not familiar with these medicines, lactulose and bisacodyl are laxatives, Proctosedyl is for piles, and Flagystatin has got an antibiotic and an anti-fungal used for treating vaginal infection.
Lactulose was easy enough, but my torture started when I began counseling the suppositories. The stupid excuse of a human being, kept saying the bisacodyl suppository was for oral taking when I repeated and corrected him multiple times that the suppository is for insertion into the rectum. I even wrote the instructions for him in Chinese together with the phrase "not for oral taking" on the drug label.
When I got to Proctosedyl suppositories, I think his brain has no more memory space left. Wrote out for him in Chinese what the medicine is for and how to use it, and he still asked if it was for oral taking. And he even asked if Proctosedyl and the bisacodyl suppositories are the same. I nearly fainted, but I definitely lost all patience with him. How difficult is it to comprehend that bisacodyl is for constipation and Proctosedyl is for piles?! Even if he cannot remember which is which, surely any normal human being can tell they are not the same!
When he started saying I've got attitude problem, I really felt like telling him I'll give him real attitude problem. Just pretend I didn't hear anything he said and let him tell his wife the pessaries and suppositories are to be taken orally. If I have a attitude problem I would not have bothered correcting his mistakes. After all I've done my job translating (verbally and in writing), counseling, and explaining how to take/ use the medicine.
I really got to give a hand to the dumb asses of humanity, they really think once they're out of school nobody's going to think they're dumb, or they can get away for being dumb.
Story goes that a stupid husband came to the pharmacy to pick up some medicine for the pregnant wife. I picked up the basket and started dispensing the medicine to the dumb husband. The doctor prescribed lactulose syrup, bisacodyl suppositories, Proctosedyl suppositories, and Flagystatin pessaries. For the sake of the general masses who are not familiar with these medicines, lactulose and bisacodyl are laxatives, Proctosedyl is for piles, and Flagystatin has got an antibiotic and an anti-fungal used for treating vaginal infection.
Lactulose was easy enough, but my torture started when I began counseling the suppositories. The stupid excuse of a human being, kept saying the bisacodyl suppository was for oral taking when I repeated and corrected him multiple times that the suppository is for insertion into the rectum. I even wrote the instructions for him in Chinese together with the phrase "not for oral taking" on the drug label.
When I got to Proctosedyl suppositories, I think his brain has no more memory space left. Wrote out for him in Chinese what the medicine is for and how to use it, and he still asked if it was for oral taking. And he even asked if Proctosedyl and the bisacodyl suppositories are the same. I nearly fainted, but I definitely lost all patience with him. How difficult is it to comprehend that bisacodyl is for constipation and Proctosedyl is for piles?! Even if he cannot remember which is which, surely any normal human being can tell they are not the same!
When he started saying I've got attitude problem, I really felt like telling him I'll give him real attitude problem. Just pretend I didn't hear anything he said and let him tell his wife the pessaries and suppositories are to be taken orally. If I have a attitude problem I would not have bothered correcting his mistakes. After all I've done my job translating (verbally and in writing), counseling, and explaining how to take/ use the medicine.
posted by Yamosh at 8:33 AM
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