@@CaptivaLP there's a brief review paper out there outlining the 'true' hierarchical tree of eyedrops. Unfortunately I forgot the title & didn't save it, but it'd probably prove useful
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
@@playhookydepends on what medication (since we can switch them to alternatives in some cases if its the same generic drug) but most likely the patient has to wait the next day. If its an emergency, the pharmacist can give the patient the correct medication as long as the doctor supplies a prescription within 72 hours of dispensing.
We need to train/authorize pharmacists to be able to have a little more power Things would run so much more smoothly if pharmacists were just allowed to fix a dose, switch to an alternative or cancel a potentially dangerous script w/o having to consult the doctor all the time. I've personally experienced this so often, I take a controlled med and sometimes I have to come back the next day or go back to the doctor. It's infuriating
@@himesilva Good idea but we need to finally finish off the P in HIPAA first and make portability of medical records available instantly. A pharmacist only knows what the patient is getting from their pharmacy (with the exception of controls). Meanwhile the hospital pharmacist can check the patient's chart for any "take home" scripts, and all of the patient's normal doctors will be sending them to the patient's preferred pharmacy. Except for that medication from the formulary, or the meds that a local grocery store is giving away for free to lure patients to their new pharmacy.
@@playhooky on the inpatient end, if it is a med the patient needs that night we page the person on call and try to fill them in on the patient and they order it. If it is non urgent, then it gets fixed in the morning.
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!
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.
It might be because medical doctors take like two years of pharm while pharmacists take seven. However, I’m really glad the pharmacist corrected the medical doctor’s mistake.
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.
🖐 same here as well. I had sever pain in my joints two weeks after working in a pharmacy because i had to be on my feet for five hours. It got better and i can go long hours working, but it was tough
@@NoorAhmed-mf9gn Same problem, I'm a waitress and I've been on my feet without one moment to sit besides when I made it to the toilet for 10 hours quite a few times. Killer on your feet for real.. a normal day it's 8 hours without sitting down, and that's 35-40 hours every week
Tell your dad we thank him for his attention to detail, and looking over his clients/patients so to speak! Bless the pharmacists!! And your mom too!!! ❤ 😊
If a doctor makes a prescribing mistake, the pharmacist HAS to catch it, because not only could it risk the life of the patient, but it could also ruin the _pharmacist's_ entire life. Beyond losing their license, prison time is a very real consequence. A ten year sentence and a lifetime of guilt is a hard price to pay for failing to notice a decimal point.
My grandmother told me that, when she was a child (this must have been in the 1930s or 40s), she had a younger brother -- a toddler -- who was badly burned in a fireplace. The doctor prescribed a medicine that was supposed to be administered at a dose of 3 drops. The doctor accidentally wrote 3 dropperfulls. Her brother died of overdose. When the doctor found out, he came to the house and took the bottle of medicine when he left. And that's all I know of what happenned. That kind of mistake can absolutely be deadly.
We do make mistakes, we're only human after all. It doesn't happen often, thankfully, but even when an error occurs, I always make sure it gets corrected by any means necessary : calling the patient, calling their doctor, their insurance, their bosses (yeah I've done this).
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.
I don't normally post to things that are a year old, and, most likely you will never see this, and that's ok... but if you do, I was wondering what kind of problems your dad had or has. I was also overdosed with chemo to the point of needing a blood transfusion (irradiated 0-) and a week-long hospital stay in the middle of treatment. So many problems, and I've never been the same. This is the first time I've heard about anyone else getting being ODed with chemo, besides myself.
That's the whole point of chemo. They want to kill the cancer so they have to take the patient almost to the edge of death to do it. It's never a pleasant or fully safe process and a lot of people don't survive it. Although improvements are made almost daily.
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
Completely accurate for a opioid naive patient. But between things like cancer and drug abuse, some people can have crazy high tolerance. There's a paper about someone in hospice from bone cancer 3,400 micrograms an hour of transdermal fentanyl and the pain was "still not well controlled".
@@ArisWertin yes, however fentanyl doses are measured in micrograms by convention. In this case, the patient had 34x 100 mcg/hr patches on their body. A single 100 mcg/hr patch can kill a person with no opioid tolerance. You typically start with 12 or 25 micrograms per hour depending on the patient's existing medications and history. So yes it's 3.4 mg / hour. But many people would assume that's a typo because it's such an insane dose.
@@PsRohrbaugh I know this is apples and oranges, but I can easily imagine that happening because I always wondered why I needed to take between 2 to 4 times the normal prescribed dose for oxycodone/hydrocodone after surgery, and then I learn years later it's because I had chronic pain from hEDS just eating up the normie dose before the surgical incision pain got any More recently I tore my rotator cuff and had something like 150mg worth of cannabis gummies over 3 hours and it did jack for the pain and I didn't even perceive any psychotropic effects due to the confluence of acute and chronic pain And bone cancer is about as horrifying bad as physical pain can get, so I can absolutely believe someone's pain being at that kind of level to burn through more than 3400 mcg/hr of fent patches
@@sublimeadethis is talking about inpatient hospital pharmacy, not the typical outpatient or retail pharmacy you pick up your meds at, its completely different.
This is sooooo TRUE! I see see them busting their butts, running around,looking for orders,meds, answering the phone to rude people (which is why I always try to be nice, I know they’re under a lot of pressure!) ringing out customers, dealing with drive they customers at the same time- y’all wear the capes too!!!! 🫡😊💐
Damn straight! Love my techs! Doin all the grunt work so I can sit on the phone trying to explain why they can’t do a 3rd nitro-bid application in 6 hours!
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!
Pharmacists are awesome! I'm so grateful to the pharmacist at UCSF who put together my cocktail, and called out my knee surgeon to his face, in front of me, that he's lucky that I didn't get a brain bleed from the NSAID he prescribed. And I can't take any NSAIDs. Also, my grandfather was a pharmacist, I have so much respect for these guys, they get shit on constantly, but they save lives. It may not be in an OR, but they save them. So be kind and patient when picking up your scripts, they deserve it.
Rule- don’t make “friends” Be professional, kind, responsible, and accountable Don’t expect others to do your work for you and make sure you can be reached Do your job without being a douche, it’s not about being friends
@@truethought7288i’m curious to why you said don’t make friends? as a nursing student i’ve made an effort to befriend the nurses especially. it makes clinicals pass by so much easier and i get more enthusiastic communication in return instead of annoyed eye rolls whenever i ask a question
@@carinag4635 it also works across professions too, a nurse or doctor your friends with is happier to help you out for five minutes rather than say they're too busy because they know you'd have their back too, hence teamwork improves
Got Appendicitis a while back, ended up in hospital, as you do. Wasn't getting better, couldn't walk, nor stand. staff was getting fed up assuming i'm in it for pain meds. Finally whined and cried enough for them to send Head Pharmacist or Chief of Pharmacy, you get it. Tells me they've given me the wrong pain medication, wrong antibiotics, and wrong anti-inflammatory medication. That pharmacy dude 100% saved my life and turned my septic infection around with very little time to spare. I don't know what a normal white blood cell count is but when it came back 26,000 they started taking my complaints pretty seriously. Long story short while an entire California hospital minus the dope surgical room team was content on killing me like an Oregon Trail statistic, the Pharmacist single-handedly kept that from happening to me. Thank you drug man, that was a class act.
Also for any doctors: I was told my Appendix was in an unusual spot, on the opposite side of something or other? he had to search for it for a while? is that particularly uncommon, or peculiar? Just for context overall, that was a 6 night hospital stay for an appendectomy.
@@BluntStuff sometimes people's thoracic and abdominal organs are flipped opposite. sometimes the appendix is elongated and is more inflamed noticeably on the left. sometimes organs twist around each other and it winds up on the left. you might want to find out for sure, bc if other organs are flipped as well this issue could arise again.
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.
I am a pharmacist and i can confirm this. Because sometimes when we "correct" The doctors, we would get yell at, because we are not the one who treat their illness. So most of the time, we kinda just correct the prescription without consulting the doctor first.
@@AD-oy8nm 90% of the docs I talk to are the nicest most understanding people on the face of this planet and are very appreciative of our help… those other 10% tho? Woo wee, are they a handful! If I had to overgeneralize id say the older the doc is or the more out of scope the order is for that doc, the more push back I get lol… the younger they are and the more comfortable the physician is in their field the more appreciative they are.
Isn’t this kinda dangerous? While the pharmacist understands the meds, the doctor understands the patient… some patients might have what looks like a “wrong” script that is just specifically tapered to their tolerance, their condition, etc. and a pharmacist isn’t equipped with all the same knowledge. By “fixing” a script without consulting first, wouldn’t you be putting specific patients at risk? Edit to add: this is a genuine question and I don’t mean to be insulting at all, I actually want to go back to school for pharmacy and find it to be an amazing job that I have a ton of respect for.
@@lexinicole4317 well actually, we always did ask the doctor. And if they cant be reached, and if the doctors giving the attitude We ask the patient,.sometimes the doctor give double dose, and or giving more expensive medicine, which sometimes the patients cant afford. The doctors are doing their best jobs But we also do our jobs, we check put the orders they put and make sure everythings good to go. We certainly argue a lot with doctors, but it is part of jobs. And our goals is to give the best care we Can provide. So... Thats why they have pharmacist. We work back to back with the doctors and other medical worker To make sure, not any of us harming the patients
@@lexinicole4317 Over 250,000 people in the U.S. die each year because of medical errors so yeah both pharmacist and doctors can kill yeah more reason to trust AI in the future or at least it'll be a 3rd safety net.
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.
@@Giantcrabz if you do a residency you should try to get on an interdisciplinary hospitalist team! That's where I was at. Me and the other med student, residents, attendings, a pharm student and pharm resident, and for every patient we included the nurses for their input when we gave the progress notes. And the pharmacists also were responsible for their own learning points for us just as we had our own presentations too. It was wonderful. I got to teach the pharmacy team about the nutritional deficiencies with IBD and the link between steroids and osteoporosis screenings for them, it was so nice.
I can't thank you enough for your inclusion of pharmacists in your amazing videos. I am so lucky as I work in critical care and theatres in the UK which is very focused on the multidisciplinary approach but our work isn't something the general public often see or understand. Its the magic the ophthalmologists do in theatre that amazes me. All the serial dilutions!!!
SO TRUE! My parents were hospital pharmacists for 40+ years. Saved so many lives and got little to no recognition their entire careers. Thank you for this!
Pharmacists. Help lots of people day and night correcting prescriptions doctors don’t do right and my pharmacy is opened 9am-9pm mon to say and 10am-4pm Sunday every week and are very helpful and work so hard never sitting down bless ♥️🙏❤️
As someone with many chronic illnesses, I really appreciate pharmacists checking for drug interactions between my medications. It makes my world safer.
I am pharmacist and this is 1000% true. We are always catching life-threatening mistakes and no one ever notices. The tally marks are awesome! I love your channel! Keep up the great work!! Thank you for making this! Sometimes, we feel like the armpit of the healthcare field.
I don't think they are necessarily underrated, I just think Doctors are overrated. Unless you work in a Hospital or are a hard-core patient, most people have no idea about the lab staff, radiologists, physios, theatre staff. It's was only when the porters went on strike was when people realised not just what they did, but all the other unpaid extras they did as well. Everybody couldn't stop smiling when they came off their strike!
I'm a hospital pharmacy tech and I freaking love it. We catch so many things down here so patients aren't affected. Everything from Valium to water to needles to belladonna and more are on backorder. Accuracy is what we do.
A doctor literally accidentally prescribed my grandfather 100mg tablets of an opioid, when the correct prescription was for 10mg. None of us realised. The pharmacist caught on as I was buying it, and we got the prescription corrected. That could have easily ended in disaster otherwise. (My grandfather actually only survived a couple more months as he was in terminal stages of metastatic lung cancer, but I'm still so grateful to that heroic pharmacist)
I never realized how much pharmacists do and know until recently, I thought they just put the pills in a bottle and called it a day until I went to pick up my son’s antibiotics and they told me that the doctor ordered the ones that he didn’t need for his illness and switched it. He cleared up right away 😊
I once got lyme disease from a tick and had to take 3 weeks strong antibiotics but I only got perscribed ten days. The pharmacist realized and I am so grateful 😊
I went to the local shoppers when my oldest was 1½ and the only stuff they had for colds (he had a bad one) were actually holistic shit that was basically just honey water and I didn't even realise it wasn't medicine until I read it and he wasn't getting better. I hate they have them on the shelves
actual extracts from plants do work in some cases. immunomodulators? sure. natural expectorants? go ahead. but never ever substitute your drugs for degenerative diseases with "healthier" or "more natural options. no amount of celery extract in the world can repair a hypertrophied heart muscle. if some pharmacist ever offer you a supplement on top of your stack of amlodipine and or atorvastatin, just refuse. most of the time they get a cut from each sale or contractually obliged to do so, they have no interest in your recovery whatsoever. i work as a medical representative (worked as a pharm tech for 4 years)
My husband is on a lot of meds, prescribed by 3 drs. we recently changed pharmacies and I am glad we did. We now get a lot of queries when we go to pick up the meds. They have alerted us to things we didn’t know about mixing these prescriptions. Has probably saved my husband’s life more than once.
I needed one pharmacist like this while I was admitted to a military hospital and on a IV for a stubborn, very nasty ear infection. They brought me breakfast in the morning with eggs, yogurt, milk bread and OJ. I just had the yogurt. Unfortunately, nobody noticed that there was a “no dairy” with those meds. Got the pleasure of projectile vomiting while trying to get home. Thanks to all the under appreciated Pharmacists keeping us safe 🥰
I took my baby to the ER one night due to a fever. When we got discharge and we went to the pharmacy, the pharmacist noticed that the Tylenol dosage was for an adult and not an infant. I’m forever thankful that he caught that mistake
So accurate. It sucks like hell you can’t sit down especially working all those hours and pharmacy staff in general are unappreciated. Most ppl don’t know how much goes into it. It’s not just counting pills. Thanks for this🥰😘
Until I started learning more about healthcare I just figured the pharmacist measured out the prescription and then told the patient how to take the medication. I never realized how much work they actually do
@@exoticoruga Dilaudid is hydromorphone which is roughly 4 times more potent than morphine. A common dose I see dispensed at the pharmacy is 1 or 2 mg every 8 hours or so. You can see higher doses in the hospital for sure, but you'd never see an order for 50 times higher than a standard single dose.
this subject always burns me up, my aunt worked at a hospital where a doctor prescribed an adult dose for a patient in NICU. When going through the failure points, they realized this wasn't the first time he'd done this. He'd done this before, but my aunt refused to overdose the infant and only gave them the proper infant dose. She tried to raise this to the prescribing doctor and her superiors, but they scoffed that a nurse would think she'd know better. So they fired her, since because that baby didn't die, a different baby did and they could tell the parents that they'd fired a nurse for not following doctors orders. When she sued for wrongful dismissal they blacklisted her in the city. The doctor on the other hand was never in danger of losing his job.
I worked as a pharmacy technician for a year and the "pharmacists standing" thing actually made me so mad. I had no idea why their job was to stand all day when the work could be done mostly sitting. It was the strangest thing.
Real talk, my school doesn’t have a pharmacist shadowing, but now I can see it would be very beneficial. When I graduated and had to work on my first rotation of internal medicine, I was lucky to meet a nice and very intelligent pharmacist, she saved my life! And probably many of my patients too tbh.
One time a dr wrote me a prescription for some meds that I couldn't take so of course the pharmacist asked me about it I have to say I didn't know. So he let me know about it so it didn't happen again. He called my dr and didn't have to say my name or anything. The dr realized it before he could say anything. So that was a big save for me
That to-go order thing at the end was exactly what happened to me last Thursday, I was being prescribed several meds including pain medicine for an emergency ectopic pregnancy surgery I’d had the day before and the doc put ALL my prescriptions in for a pharmacy a city away, we got the normal meds moved to my regular pharmacy but the pain meds couldn’t be moved so we had to get an ER doc or someone like that to give me an emergency prescription for a few pills so I could survive the day before someone could go to the next city over and get me my medicine…
As a medical professional, it pains me to see how much pharmacists are underpaid and under appreciated. I’ve known some really good ones who have helped me in completing tasks. October is pharmacists month by the way. Please thank one #thankyoupharmacists
My dad is a retired hospital pharmacist. This although a bit over the top matches closely what he used to tell me about his work. Pharmacists are heroes!
Pharmacists are the unsung heroes of healthcare. I live in a death with dignity state and the pharmacist was the only one willing to prescribe the drug needed to send my dad off peacefully 🙏
@@meganhipsher9036 I’m a pharmacy technician and I stand throughout my entire shift. It depends on the pharmacy really but it’s pretty rare to see techs or pharmacist sitting on stools. Maybe the floor step stools if it was a particularly hard day..
I'm glad I work in a behavioral health hospital, I can sit most of the day and fume in frustration as nurses and doctors send in orders with the same mistakes we have made an entire SOP binder for...
OMG... I'm a hospital pharmacist and I love this. We are so undervalued and overlooked so this is not only appreciated, it's completely accurate and hilarious 😂. Thx
i am SO glad my hospital gives everyone chairs. all the pharmacists get chairs, and the techs have a couple so they can actually sit if they have a bit of time. its a life saver for me, who needs breaks now and then to keep my legs from aching. knowing some pharmacies dont even have chairs, im very grateful.
I love this one 😄 I'm still at university and from the first semester on you are like trained to stand the whole day running around in a laboratory searching for chemicals. And it never stops 😅 Also I'm learning about drug interactions this year and there is A LOT that can go wrong so yeah, we are also trained to check orders. So thanks for mentioning the pharmacists, Dr. G. It means a lot to me 😁
My mum works as a nurse, she's been in chemo, intensive care, palliative care and so much more. The amount of times she's correcting the doctors is just insane.
Just want to clarify the term doctor. PharmD and MD are both doctors. It’s a lingo that we’re still adapting to since older pharmacists are still around with bachelors in pharmacy. Since that’s not the case anymore, let’s start referring to both physicians and pharmacists as doctors. They both deserve it!
Pharmacist here. Well said. Unfortunately, "all physicians are doctors but not all doctors are physicians" is too difficult of a concept for the idiotic general public to comprehend. I can't count how many times I've had patients personally insult me to my face: "You're not a doctor, just fill the damn prescription!" "It took you four years to learn how to count to 30?!" "I don't care if you think it's wrong, the doctor prescribed it, didn't they? Just fill it!" "You want me to wait TWENTY MINUTES?! THAT LONG?! It's JUST medication!" Stuff like that. Every. Single. Day. I'm just the guy who slaps labels on bottles and counts pills. What do I know?
The "to go order" thing is so real. I take ADHD medication which is super restricted where i live and you need additional paperwork every time you get a new script and i swear doctors turn off their phones after doing this because the pharmacist can never reach em
i once had a doctor prescribe me something that was a derivative of penicillin despite confirming during the appt that i am allergic to penicillin. my pharmacist caught it and called for the doc to prescribe smth else. she was truly an angel
I have cerebral palsy which is a brain injury which requires hardcore meds. The pharmacist said as always questioning my mom about why a kid would need such a dosage but once she said what I have they were like ok just wanna make sure lol
From other doctor’s videos it might be due to covering their butt. I forget the official word for it but basically it’s like “Okay I know you’re still taking this and need it but legally I have to write down that I asked and that you confirmed” Though sometimes doctors are just butts and disbelief you, idk if your doctor was good or not and I don’t want to assume
I was in the ER and some very eager July interns threw the kitchen sink at me (proverbially). One of the drugs had a ton of nasty side effects and I declined to take it until they confirmed my diagnosis. They tried to sic the hospital pharmacist on me, but after I had one conversation with her she said I sounded like a well-informed patient making a sound decision and overruled the doctors. Yeah I didn’t have the thing they wanted to prescribe the meds for, so saved myself a few miserable days. Thank you pharmacists!
One of my favourite things was when my doctor accidentally prescribed the same dosage of a different brand which has double the potency. 🙃 I was new to the pharmacy, and just had to tell them. “That’s not accurate” and she laughed and said she wasn’t surprised.
As someone who deals with discharges all day every day, I’m amazed they completed the med rec. about a quarter of the time it’s not done 2 hours after they sign the discharge
thank God for the pharmacist! If it wasn’t for them a lot of patients would be in the ICU or all in kidney failure! We appreciate you pharmacist and the pharmacy techs!
The amount of times one of our psychiatrists will botch an order and then leave mysteriously only for the pharmacy to call and ask for the order to be corrected is more times than I care to mention
I work IT in a hospital and the amount of times thumbs are paged out as critical must be addressed immediately as people are leaving the hospital for the day with the number to reach them as either the main number to the hospital or the patient facing number to their department is staggering. Bonus points if they do this before leaving on vacation.
Former pharmacy tech here. Can confirm, we're constantly catching med errors and passing them to the pharmacist on duty to handle. Pharmacists and pharm techs are so underappreciated in the medical community, and its so unfortunate. To all my pharm fam out there, thanks for working so hard and for putting up with all the crap from the public!
I am a pharmacy student and this was absolutely hilarious 😂. Thank you for including the pharmacist 😊. I hope you get a chance to include him in future videos!
As an ER Desk Clerk(HUC) this pretty accurate! Get so many calls from pharmacists questioning if they really meant for a patient to take a medication at that dosage, it doesn't come in the requested form/dose, or some other error. They catch the typos that could cause fatal errors every day all day. Unsung heroes of the hospital!
I had this side effect and went to the pharmacist, my sister thought it was ridiculous and I should go to doctor instead. Pharmacist made very good recommendations... Later I told doctor, he asked what pharmacist said and took notes.
Yeah.. but really. They save lives or at least catch issues that’d leave patients returning that sane evening. Me: so I’m allergic to said medication Dr: sure, got it. Now let me prescribe a med that has said med (because it’s the go to) Pharmacist tech: umm hi quick question… aren’t you allergic to said med? Me: 😳 Pharm tech: no worries, thought so. Let me talk with the pharmacist, we get you straightened out. Pharmacist and techs in for the win
I appreciate the kindness to the pharmacists here. They can be frustrating to work with; well, rather, psychiatrists are generally the frustrating ones... But pharmacists are unsung heroes let's be real. Someone should give them a nice chair or something.
Hey pharmacists sorry about all the weird eye drop orders. I appreciate you.
As a pharmacist, I appreciate the representation!!!
Pls don't publish the videos as stories
As a pharmacist: no problem, but please try to order less cocaine drops!
@@CaptivaLP there's a brief review paper out there outlining the 'true' hierarchical tree of eyedrops. Unfortunately I forgot the title & didn't save it, but it'd probably prove useful
@@sageinit I would be really thankful if you could send me a link as soon you find it !!!
I just realised the tally marks are not simply lives they saved. It's the lives they saved from the doctors.
When your comment is so accurate that you have 1.3k likes and no replies for 9 months
"Not bad for a week"
That's the joke. (except it's not a joke)
Scary too. 😅🤣🤣
Duh
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
So what do you end up doing in cases like that???
@@playhookydepends on what medication (since we can switch them to alternatives in some cases if its the same generic drug) but most likely the patient has to wait the next day. If its an emergency, the pharmacist can give the patient the correct medication as long as the doctor supplies a prescription within 72 hours of dispensing.
We need to train/authorize pharmacists to be able to have a little more power Things would run so much more smoothly if pharmacists were just allowed to fix a dose, switch to an alternative or cancel a potentially dangerous script w/o having to consult the doctor all the time. I've personally experienced this so often, I take a controlled med and sometimes I have to come back the next day or go back to the doctor. It's infuriating
@@himesilva Good idea but we need to finally finish off the P in HIPAA first and make portability of medical records available instantly. A pharmacist only knows what the patient is getting from their pharmacy (with the exception of controls). Meanwhile the hospital pharmacist can check the patient's chart for any "take home" scripts, and all of the patient's normal doctors will be sending them to the patient's preferred pharmacy. Except for that medication from the formulary, or the meds that a local grocery store is giving away for free to lure patients to their new pharmacy.
@@playhooky on the inpatient end, if it is a med the patient needs that night we page the person on call and try to fill them in on the patient and they order it. If it is non urgent, then it gets fixed in the morning.
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!
Out of curosity what was the meds and in what order? just trying to learn as a future pharmacist :)
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.
"from thyroid" is my favourite thing to hear people talk about
I suffer from pancreas
@@charliewhelan9488 i too suffer from brain
@@pineapples6921 I'm sorry to hear this.
It might be because medical doctors take like two years of pharm while pharmacists take seven. However, I’m really glad the pharmacist corrected the medical doctor’s mistake.
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.
As a pharmacist I can confirm that we are contractually obligated to stand on our feet the whole workday 😂
why? This also happens in my country
I see that every time I go to the pharmacy and I’m like wtf??
🖐 same here as well. I had sever pain in my joints two weeks after working in a pharmacy because i had to be on my feet for five hours. It got better and i can go long hours working, but it was tough
I’m a pharmacist and I’m grateful that I get to stand all day. It’s so much better than having to sit.
@@NoorAhmed-mf9gn Same problem, I'm a waitress and I've been on my feet without one moment to sit besides when I made it to the toilet for 10 hours quite a few times. Killer on your feet for real.. a normal day it's 8 hours without sitting down, and that's 35-40 hours every week
Both my parents were pharmacists. I remember my father once saying “I never make a mistake; if I make a mistake someone could die.”.
Triple check, and if not sure, check with a peer.
The only prevention for accidents is due diligence.
Tell your dad we thank him for his attention to detail, and looking over his clients/patients so to speak! Bless the pharmacists!! And your mom too!!! ❤ 😊
If a doctor makes a prescribing mistake, the pharmacist HAS to catch it, because not only could it risk the life of the patient, but it could also ruin the _pharmacist's_ entire life. Beyond losing their license, prison time is a very real consequence. A ten year sentence and a lifetime of guilt is a hard price to pay for failing to notice a decimal point.
My grandmother told me that, when she was a child (this must have been in the 1930s or 40s), she had a younger brother -- a toddler -- who was badly burned in a fireplace. The doctor prescribed a medicine that was supposed to be administered at a dose of 3 drops. The doctor accidentally wrote 3 dropperfulls. Her brother died of overdose. When the doctor found out, he came to the house and took the bottle of medicine when he left. And that's all I know of what happenned. That kind of mistake can absolutely be deadly.
We do make mistakes, we're only human after all. It doesn't happen often, thankfully, but even when an error occurs, I always make sure it gets corrected by any means necessary : calling the patient, calling their doctor, their insurance, their bosses (yeah I've done this).
Pharmacists and nurses save so many people from potential medical mistakes. Bless them.
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.
I don't normally post to things that are a year old, and, most likely you will never see this, and that's ok... but if you do, I was wondering what kind of problems your dad had or has. I was also overdosed with chemo to the point of needing a blood transfusion (irradiated 0-) and a week-long hospital stay in the middle of treatment. So many problems, and I've never been the same. This is the first time I've heard about anyone else getting being ODed with chemo, besides myself.
That's the whole point of chemo. They want to kill the cancer so they have to take the patient almost to the edge of death to do it. It's never a pleasant or fully safe process and a lot of people don't survive it. Although improvements are made almost daily.
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
Interesting, thanks for the info. Assuming you didn't lie here
Completely accurate for a opioid naive patient. But between things like cancer and drug abuse, some people can have crazy high tolerance. There's a paper about someone in hospice from bone cancer 3,400 micrograms an hour of transdermal fentanyl and the pain was "still not well controlled".
@@PsRohrbaughthat would be 3.4mg, m is milli not micro.
@@ArisWertin yes, however fentanyl doses are measured in micrograms by convention. In this case, the patient had 34x 100 mcg/hr patches on their body. A single 100 mcg/hr patch can kill a person with no opioid tolerance. You typically start with 12 or 25 micrograms per hour depending on the patient's existing medications and history. So yes it's 3.4 mg / hour. But many people would assume that's a typo because it's such an insane dose.
@@PsRohrbaugh I know this is apples and oranges, but I can easily imagine that happening because I always wondered why I needed to take between 2 to 4 times the normal prescribed dose for oxycodone/hydrocodone after surgery, and then I learn years later it's because I had chronic pain from hEDS just eating up the normie dose before the surgical incision pain got any
More recently I tore my rotator cuff and had something like 150mg worth of cannabis gummies over 3 hours and it did jack for the pain and I didn't even perceive any psychotropic effects due to the confluence of acute and chronic pain
And bone cancer is about as horrifying bad as physical pain can get, so I can absolutely believe someone's pain being at that kind of level to burn through more than 3400 mcg/hr of fent patches
I want more of this sweet pharmacist who is passive aggressive to doctors
Yeeees! Dr. Glaucomflecken, I love the pharmacist, the people demand more
As a pharmacy technician, I can tell you that this is scary realistic.
Thank you for your service! Should be the standard greeting for a pharmacist, I suppose.
Absolutely! I swear the hospital exists just to keep doctors from killing their patients by accident
As a pharmacy customer, let me tell you it is a wait
@@sublimeadethis is talking about inpatient hospital pharmacy, not the typical outpatient or retail pharmacy you pick up your meds at, its completely different.
Except for the standing part lmao, pharmacists spend most of the day sitting
Behind every successful Pharmacist is a hard working Pharmacy Tech.
This is sooooo TRUE! I see see them busting their butts, running around,looking for orders,meds, answering the phone to rude people (which is why I always try to be nice, I know they’re under a lot of pressure!) ringing out customers, dealing with drive they customers at the same time- y’all wear the capes too!!!! 🫡😊💐
Damn straight! Love my techs! Doin all the grunt work so I can sit on the phone trying to explain why they can’t do a 3rd nitro-bid application in 6 hours!
Absolutely true! If not one Pharmacy Tech then several!
Thank you techs, from a grateful PharmD! Y'all are the MVPs
@@Giantcrabz I agree with you buddy 😊
A classic. One of my favorites. Glad it's under proper ownership now.
Huh?
Wow! So much greed.
What happened
@@kazutokirigaya7518 I'm also confused
@@AaronC865 there was a phony account on UA-cam for a while uploading all this guy’s content off of TikTok and pretending to be him.
Pharmacists are the absolute best team members of the medical community. Love them. They have our backs.
Pharmacists are underappreciated.
Pharmacists and respiratory therapists are the unsung heroes of healthcare. I saw it everyday as a critical care nurse.
@@balletbabe52 You're absolutely correct. I was an RT and now I'm a pharmacist. lol
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!
Pharmacists are awesome! I'm so grateful to the pharmacist at UCSF who put together my cocktail, and called out my knee surgeon to his face, in front of me, that he's lucky that I didn't get a brain bleed from the NSAID he prescribed. And I can't take any NSAIDs.
Also, my grandfather was a pharmacist, I have so much respect for these guys, they get shit on constantly, but they save lives. It may not be in an OR, but they save them. So be kind and patient when picking up your scripts, they deserve it.
OR pharmacy is a strange beast
Rules for success on the floor
#1. Make friends with the nurses
#2. Make friends with the pharmacists
Be nice to everyone and smile
Rule- don’t make “friends”
Be professional, kind, responsible, and accountable
Don’t expect others to do your work for you and make sure you can be reached
Do your job without being a douche, it’s not about being friends
And bring treats. 😊
@@truethought7288i’m curious to why you said don’t make friends? as a nursing student i’ve made an effort to befriend the nurses especially. it makes clinicals pass by so much easier and i get more enthusiastic communication in return instead of annoyed eye rolls whenever i ask a question
@@truethought7288 sounds like you're the one everyones disappointed to work with
@@carinag4635 it also works across professions too, a nurse or doctor your friends with is happier to help you out for five minutes rather than say they're too busy because they know you'd have their back too, hence teamwork improves
Got Appendicitis a while back, ended up in hospital, as you do. Wasn't getting better, couldn't walk, nor stand. staff was getting fed up assuming i'm in it for pain meds.
Finally whined and cried enough for them to send Head Pharmacist or Chief of Pharmacy, you get it. Tells me they've given me the wrong pain medication, wrong antibiotics, and wrong anti-inflammatory medication. That pharmacy dude 100% saved my life and turned my septic infection around with very little time to spare. I don't know what a normal white blood cell count is but when it came back 26,000 they started taking my complaints pretty seriously.
Long story short while an entire California hospital minus the dope surgical room team was content on killing me like an Oregon Trail statistic, the Pharmacist single-handedly kept that from happening to me. Thank you drug man, that was a class act.
Also for any doctors: I was told my Appendix was in an unusual spot, on the opposite side of something or other? he had to search for it for a while? is that particularly uncommon, or peculiar?
Just for context overall, that was a 6 night hospital stay for an appendectomy.
@@BluntStuff sometimes people's thoracic and abdominal organs are flipped opposite. sometimes the appendix is elongated and is more inflamed noticeably on the left. sometimes organs twist around each other and it winds up on the left. you might want to find out for sure, bc if other organs are flipped as well this issue could arise again.
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.
I am a pharmacist and i can confirm this.
Because sometimes when we "correct" The doctors, we would get yell at, because we are not the one who treat their illness.
So most of the time, we kinda just correct the prescription without consulting the doctor first.
Anytime i get a call from a inpatient or outpatient pharmacist i always thank them, verify dosing, worried about interaction, duplicate med etc,
@@AD-oy8nm 90% of the docs I talk to are the nicest most understanding people on the face of this planet and are very appreciative of our help… those other 10% tho? Woo wee, are they a handful! If I had to overgeneralize id say the older the doc is or the more out of scope the order is for that doc, the more push back I get lol… the younger they are and the more comfortable the physician is in their field the more appreciative they are.
Isn’t this kinda dangerous? While the pharmacist understands the meds, the doctor understands the patient… some patients might have what looks like a “wrong” script that is just specifically tapered to their tolerance, their condition, etc. and a pharmacist isn’t equipped with all the same knowledge. By “fixing” a script without consulting first, wouldn’t you be putting specific patients at risk?
Edit to add: this is a genuine question and I don’t mean to be insulting at all, I actually want to go back to school for pharmacy and find it to be an amazing job that I have a ton of respect for.
@@lexinicole4317 well actually, we always did ask the doctor. And if they cant be reached, and if the doctors giving the attitude
We ask the patient,.sometimes the doctor give double dose, and or giving more expensive medicine, which sometimes the patients cant afford.
The doctors are doing their best jobs
But we also do our jobs, we check put the orders they put and make sure everythings good to go.
We certainly argue a lot with doctors, but it is part of jobs. And our goals is to give the best care we Can provide.
So...
Thats why they have pharmacist.
We work back to back with the doctors and other medical worker
To make sure, not any of us harming the patients
@@lexinicole4317 Over 250,000 people in the U.S. die each year because of medical errors so yeah both pharmacist and doctors can kill yeah more reason to trust AI in the future or at least it'll be a 3rd safety net.
Love that you showed this side of medicine. I feel like the work they do goes so overlooked .
Yep, most of the people don't even know that you need to go to University to become a pharmacist lmao
@@arielallin1pods171 they are under utilized and in community settings, a layman thinks they are just sales persons..
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.
I want more exposure to nurses and other allied health as a pharmacist. My knowledge feels so incomplete!
@@Giantcrabz if you do a residency you should try to get on an interdisciplinary hospitalist team! That's where I was at. Me and the other med student, residents, attendings, a pharm student and pharm resident, and for every patient we included the nurses for their input when we gave the progress notes. And the pharmacists also were responsible for their own learning points for us just as we had our own presentations too. It was wonderful. I got to teach the pharmacy team about the nutritional deficiencies with IBD and the link between steroids and osteoporosis screenings for them, it was so nice.
I love the pharmacy they have helped me my entire 23 years of nursing! ❤❤❤
Loved to see material about pharmacist, i feel like we are under-represented. That was great
I can't thank you enough for your inclusion of pharmacists in your amazing videos. I am so lucky as I work in critical care and theatres in the UK which is very focused on the multidisciplinary approach but our work isn't something the general public often see or understand. Its the magic the ophthalmologists do in theatre that amazes me. All the serial dilutions!!!
As someone who's been trying to get my ADHD medication for MANY months now, that "backorder" joke really hits home
SO TRUE! My parents were hospital pharmacists for 40+ years. Saved so many lives and got little to no recognition their entire careers. Thank you for this!
I love our pharmacists. And they are a great source of help in the hospital.
Pharmacists. Help lots of people day and night correcting prescriptions doctors don’t do right and my pharmacy is opened 9am-9pm mon to say and 10am-4pm Sunday every week and are very helpful and work so hard never sitting down bless ♥️🙏❤️
As someone with many chronic illnesses, I really appreciate pharmacists checking for drug interactions between my medications. It makes my world safer.
I am pharmacist and this is 1000% true. We are always catching life-threatening mistakes and no one ever notices. The tally marks are awesome! I love your channel! Keep up the great work!! Thank you for making this! Sometimes, we feel like the armpit of the healthcare field.
so true, pharmacists have saved my ass more times than I can count 😭😭 nothing but respect for them
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.
I think you missed the point of the video
Most underrated profession in the medical system. Have questions many times and with their info., have decided not to take lots of meds.
I don't think they are necessarily underrated, I just think Doctors are overrated. Unless you work in a Hospital or are a hard-core patient, most people have no idea about the lab staff, radiologists, physios, theatre staff. It's was only when the porters went on strike was when people realised not just what they did, but all the other unpaid extras they did as well. Everybody couldn't stop smiling when they came off their strike!
Unbelievable how hard they work behind the scenes . I worked in a MiCU and our pharmacist was awesome . Thank you Wendy
I'm a hospital pharmacy tech and I freaking love it. We catch so many things down here so patients aren't affected. Everything from Valium to water to needles to belladonna and more are on backorder. Accuracy is what we do.
A doctor literally accidentally prescribed my grandfather 100mg tablets of an opioid, when the correct prescription was for 10mg. None of us realised.
The pharmacist caught on as I was buying it, and we got the prescription corrected. That could have easily ended in disaster otherwise.
(My grandfather actually only survived a couple more months as he was in terminal stages of metastatic lung cancer, but I'm still so grateful to that heroic pharmacist)
I never realized how much pharmacists do and know until recently, I thought they just put the pills in a bottle and called it a day until I went to pick up my son’s antibiotics and they told me that the doctor ordered the ones that he didn’t need for his illness and switched it. He cleared up right away 😊
I once got lyme disease from a tick and had to take 3 weeks strong antibiotics but I only got perscribed ten days. The pharmacist realized and I am so grateful 😊
i’d love one about pharmacy and their opinion on mlm/“holistic” supplements and how they negatively interact with the patients meds 👀👀
This would be great.
St John's worst 🙄😤😡
I'm a pharmacist. You know how the dietician has a Dr Oz that they punch? Yeah we also have a Dr Oz. The same Dr Oz actually.
I went to the local shoppers when my oldest was 1½ and the only stuff they had for colds (he had a bad one) were actually holistic shit that was basically just honey water and I didn't even realise it wasn't medicine until I read it and he wasn't getting better. I hate they have them on the shelves
actual extracts from plants do work in some cases. immunomodulators? sure. natural expectorants? go ahead. but never ever substitute your drugs for degenerative diseases with "healthier" or "more natural options. no amount of celery extract in the world can repair a hypertrophied heart muscle. if some pharmacist ever offer you a supplement on top of your stack of amlodipine and or atorvastatin, just refuse. most of the time they get a cut from each sale or contractually obliged to do so, they have no interest in your recovery whatsoever. i work as a medical representative (worked as a pharm tech for 4 years)
My husband is on a lot of meds, prescribed by 3 drs. we recently changed pharmacies and I am glad we did. We now get a lot of queries when we go to pick up the meds. They have alerted us to things we didn’t know about mixing these prescriptions. Has probably saved my husband’s life more than once.
So grateful for all the times pharmacists have saved my butt (and my patients’!).
I needed one pharmacist like this while I was admitted to a military hospital and on a IV for a stubborn, very nasty ear infection. They brought me breakfast in the morning with eggs, yogurt, milk bread and OJ. I just had the yogurt. Unfortunately, nobody noticed that there was a “no dairy” with those meds.
Got the pleasure of projectile vomiting while trying to get home. Thanks to all the under appreciated Pharmacists keeping us safe 🥰
As a pharmacy tech I can say it's the whole department not just pharmacists that can't sit
I took my baby to the ER one night due to a fever. When we got discharge and we went to the pharmacy, the pharmacist noticed that the Tylenol dosage was for an adult and not an infant. I’m forever thankful that he caught that mistake
So accurate. It sucks like hell you can’t sit down especially working all those hours and pharmacy staff in general are unappreciated. Most ppl don’t know how much goes into it. It’s not just counting pills. Thanks for this🥰😘
Until I started learning more about healthcare I just figured the pharmacist measured out the prescription and then told the patient how to take the medication. I never realized how much work they actually do
"somebody ordered 100 mg of dilaudid"
"come put it up on the board"
I was dying of laughter
Yeah 100 mg is underdosed for sure /s
Could you explain this to me as I'm not a med student 😭
@@exoticoruga Dilaudid is hydromorphone which is roughly 4 times more potent than morphine. A common dose I see dispensed at the pharmacy is 1 or 2 mg every 8 hours or so. You can see higher doses in the hospital for sure, but you'd never see an order for 50 times higher than a standard single dose.
Thank you I appreciate you guys 😂😂 makes sense now, now I can laugh too
@@exoticoruga No problem friend
this subject always burns me up, my aunt worked at a hospital where a doctor prescribed an adult dose for a patient in NICU. When going through the failure points, they realized this wasn't the first time he'd done this. He'd done this before, but my aunt refused to overdose the infant and only gave them the proper infant dose. She tried to raise this to the prescribing doctor and her superiors, but they scoffed that a nurse would think she'd know better. So they fired her, since because that baby didn't die, a different baby did and they could tell the parents that they'd fired a nurse for not following doctors orders. When she sued for wrongful dismissal they blacklisted her in the city. The doctor on the other hand was never in danger of losing his job.
I worked as a pharmacy technician for a year and the "pharmacists standing" thing actually made me so mad. I had no idea why their job was to stand all day when the work could be done mostly sitting. It was the strangest thing.
Real talk, my school doesn’t have a pharmacist shadowing, but now I can see it would be very beneficial. When I graduated and had to work on my first rotation of internal medicine, I was lucky to meet a nice and very intelligent pharmacist, she saved my life! And probably many of my patients too tbh.
One time a dr wrote me a prescription for some meds that I couldn't take so of course the pharmacist asked me about it I have to say I didn't know. So he let me know about it so it didn't happen again. He called my dr and didn't have to say my name or anything. The dr realized it before he could say anything. So that was a big save for me
That to-go order thing at the end was exactly what happened to me last Thursday, I was being prescribed several meds including pain medicine for an emergency ectopic pregnancy surgery I’d had the day before and the doc put ALL my prescriptions in for a pharmacy a city away, we got the normal meds moved to my regular pharmacy but the pain meds couldn’t be moved so we had to get an ER doc or someone like that to give me an emergency prescription for a few pills so I could survive the day before someone could go to the next city over and get me my medicine…
"Sorry, that medication is on backorder." It's become a reflex at this point.
Hydralazine... again.
That " I'm sorry that medication is on back order" though. Hahahaha
Dextrose 50% has been on back order at my place for over a year. SUGAR. IN AMERICA.
"Force of habit" 😂😂
As a medical professional, it pains me to see how much pharmacists are underpaid and under appreciated. I’ve known some really good ones who have helped me in completing tasks.
October is pharmacists month by the way. Please thank one
#thankyoupharmacists
Appreciate this! Happy to be part of the team.
They make 120k-145k/yr
@@pharmacistshane
And those wages have been stagnant for ~25 years.
My dad is a retired hospital pharmacist. This although a bit over the top matches closely what he used to tell me about his work. Pharmacists are heroes!
"Not bad for a week" always gets me. 🤣
One of my faves, for sure. Love you, Doc, you light up my days, greetings from Argentina. 🤗
As a nurse you are a breath of fresh air, sir!
I love the passive aggression so much
Pharmacists are the unsung heroes of healthcare. I live in a death with dignity state and the pharmacist was the only one willing to prescribe the drug needed to send my dad off peacefully 🙏
"Pharmacist are contractually obligated to never sit down"
Two seconds later...
Tony, clearly sitting down 😂
Still funny as always!
tony is probably a pharmacy technician, so the joke still stands!
@@meganhipsher9036 so does the pharmacist
@@meganhipsher9036 I’m a pharmacy technician and I stand throughout my entire shift. It depends on the pharmacy really but it’s pretty rare to see techs or pharmacist sitting on stools. Maybe the floor step stools if it was a particularly hard day..
I'm glad I work in a behavioral health hospital, I can sit most of the day and fume in frustration as nurses and doctors send in orders with the same mistakes we have made an entire SOP binder for...
Nah, is crouching to build up that Full Pharmacist Leg Strength lol
As a pharmacist, I was completely expecting a joke about “counting by 5’s” when I saw the tally marks. Thanks for being on our side!
Love your skits!
Omg finally the pharmacist get some recognition
Could you do more, please? My pharmacist buddies love it. 😂
OMG... I'm a hospital pharmacist and I love this. We are so undervalued and overlooked so this is not only appreciated, it's completely accurate and hilarious 😂. Thx
One of my favourites for sure!
i am SO glad my hospital gives everyone chairs. all the pharmacists get chairs, and the techs have a couple so they can actually sit if they have a bit of time. its a life saver for me, who needs breaks now and then to keep my legs from aching.
knowing some pharmacies dont even have chairs, im very grateful.
I love this one 😄 I'm still at university and from the first semester on you are like trained to stand the whole day running around in a laboratory searching for chemicals. And it never stops 😅 Also I'm learning about drug interactions this year and there is A LOT that can go wrong so yeah, we are also trained to check orders. So thanks for mentioning the pharmacists, Dr. G. It means a lot to me 😁
When I was a nurse I really appreciated the pharmacists. They were all so nice and were happy to answer any questions I had.
I have no idea how many times I watched this on the wrong channel and laughed every time. Glad to see it where it belongs! 💜
My mum works as a nurse, she's been in chemo, intensive care, palliative care and so much more. The amount of times she's correcting the doctors is just insane.
Just want to clarify the term doctor. PharmD and MD are both doctors. It’s a lingo that we’re still adapting to since older pharmacists are still around with bachelors in pharmacy. Since that’s not the case anymore, let’s start referring to both physicians and pharmacists as doctors. They both deserve it!
Pharmacist here. Well said. Unfortunately, "all physicians are doctors but not all doctors are physicians" is too difficult of a concept for the idiotic general public to comprehend. I can't count how many times I've had patients personally insult me to my face:
"You're not a doctor, just fill the damn prescription!"
"It took you four years to learn how to count to 30?!"
"I don't care if you think it's wrong, the doctor prescribed it, didn't they? Just fill it!"
"You want me to wait TWENTY MINUTES?! THAT LONG?! It's JUST medication!"
Stuff like that. Every. Single. Day. I'm just the guy who slaps labels on bottles and counts pills. What do I know?
The "to go order" thing is so real. I take ADHD medication which is super restricted where i live and you need additional paperwork every time you get a new script and i swear doctors turn off their phones after doing this because the pharmacist can never reach em
I work in retail pharmacy and this still feels accurate!
i once had a doctor prescribe me something that was a derivative of penicillin despite confirming during the appt that i am allergic to penicillin. my pharmacist caught it and called for the doc to prescribe smth else. she was truly an angel
I have cerebral palsy which is a brain injury which requires hardcore meds. The pharmacist said as always questioning my mom about why a kid would need such a dosage but once she said what I have they were like ok just wanna make sure lol
From other doctor’s videos it might be due to covering their butt. I forget the official word for it but basically it’s like “Okay I know you’re still taking this and need it but legally I have to write down that I asked and that you confirmed”
Though sometimes doctors are just butts and disbelief you, idk if your doctor was good or not and I don’t want to assume
@@DeathnoteBB due diligence?
I was in the ER and some very eager July interns threw the kitchen sink at me (proverbially). One of the drugs had a ton of nasty side effects and I declined to take it until they confirmed my diagnosis. They tried to sic the hospital pharmacist on me, but after I had one conversation with her she said I sounded like a well-informed patient making a sound decision and overruled the doctors.
Yeah I didn’t have the thing they wanted to prescribe the meds for, so saved myself a few miserable days. Thank you pharmacists!
One of my favourite things was when my doctor accidentally prescribed the same dosage of a different brand which has double the potency. 🙃 I was new to the pharmacy, and just had to tell them. “That’s not accurate” and she laughed and said she wasn’t surprised.
As someone who deals with discharges all day every day, I’m amazed they completed the med rec. about a quarter of the time it’s not done 2 hours after they sign the discharge
As a registered pharmacist i feel appreciated, even though I'm not a working pharmacist
thank God for the pharmacist! If it wasn’t for them a lot of patients would be in the ICU or all in kidney failure! We appreciate you pharmacist and the pharmacy techs!
The amount of times one of our psychiatrists will botch an order and then leave mysteriously only for the pharmacy to call and ask for the order to be corrected is more times than I care to mention
I can see your read receipts Doctor! You aren't sneaky!
“…contractually prohibited from sitting down…” retired pharmacist here and I feel this soooooooooo hard…
I work IT in a hospital and the amount of times thumbs are paged out as critical must be addressed immediately as people are leaving the hospital for the day with the number to reach them as either the main number to the hospital or the patient facing number to their department is staggering. Bonus points if they do this before leaving on vacation.
This is why my pharmacists is my second favorite health professional 🥰 so appreciative for them
The Price is Right losing horn went off. I'm dead.
That’s crazy how much doctors mess up but good thing there are checks for them that catch their mistakes… most of the time
Wild seeing this immediately after I started looking into pharmacy school. Crazy coincidence
Former pharmacy tech here. Can confirm, we're constantly catching med errors and passing them to the pharmacist on duty to handle. Pharmacists and pharm techs are so underappreciated in the medical community, and its so unfortunate. To all my pharm fam out there, thanks for working so hard and for putting up with all the crap from the public!
“I’ve never seen this one before…” even better the second time doc
"Im sorry that medication is on backorder" Im a pharmacy assistant and I felt this in my soul.
I am a pharmacy student and this was absolutely hilarious 😂. Thank you for including the pharmacist 😊. I hope you get a chance to include him in future videos!
As an ER Desk Clerk(HUC) this pretty accurate! Get so many calls from pharmacists questioning if they really meant for a patient to take a medication at that dosage, it doesn't come in the requested form/dose, or some other error. They catch the typos that could cause fatal errors every day all day. Unsung heroes of the hospital!
I am a pharmacist myself. Thank you for highlighting the importance of Pharmacists
I had this side effect and went to the pharmacist, my sister thought it was ridiculous and I should go to doctor instead. Pharmacist made very good recommendations... Later I told doctor, he asked what pharmacist said and took notes.
Yeah.. but really. They save lives or at least catch issues that’d leave patients returning that sane evening.
Me: so I’m allergic to said medication
Dr: sure, got it. Now let me prescribe a med that has said med (because it’s the go to)
Pharmacist tech: umm hi quick question… aren’t you allergic to said med?
Me: 😳
Pharm tech: no worries, thought so. Let me talk with the pharmacist, we get you straightened out.
Pharmacist and techs in for the win
the real question is why does it take a pharm tech to catch this stuff? surely a computer can automatically give a warning about this?
@@LC-hd5dc systems aren’t that smart yet, mostly they are to record data much like their paper counterparts (worked as a programmer in healthcare)
@@agonzalez1482 yikes, guess I'll keep using epocrates to check prescriptions from my side lol
I appreciate the kindness to the pharmacists here. They can be frustrating to work with; well, rather, psychiatrists are generally the frustrating ones... But pharmacists are unsung heroes let's be real. Someone should give them a nice chair or something.