@@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
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.
🖐 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
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.
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).
@@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!
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
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
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 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)
Lol I'm no pharmacist just a pharmacy tech that works at the dreaded three letter pharmacy with the really long receipts. And working with them made me realize they do not get paid enough and also you have to be slightly crazy/masochist to want to be one. But I respect the people that already are and who is willing to become one. Y'all the true MVPs.
Passed the PCATs with an 81. Thought about it a bit more, and said oh hell no. Went on to go on towards a PhD in biochemistry. I sell insurance now and make more than I ever could at either job. Einstein was right, if he wasn't going to be a scientist he would have sold insurance. Lol.
Tech at the dreaded three letter pharmacy here as well, techs don't get paid enough there as well. Severely underpaid given the exponential increase in workload the last few months. Found a new pharm tech job though that pays me $20/hr, and it's wfh :) holding on to the three letter for a little longer in case it goes sideways but...
@@rheyanalwin8989 No, my question was which new pharmcy is the $20/hr. I know what the 3lettered pharmacy is, and they only pay $16, because I work for them currently.
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.
@@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.
@@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...
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
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
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
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…
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.
The pharmacist caught the antibiotic dosage recommended dose and corrected it. Took an extra 30 mins but it was for my 6 week old who had a crazy high fever and turned out to have pneumonia so they were dead set to get it right. Fantastic at their jobs and I’m so thankful for them 💕
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!!!
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
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!
@@Crazziesrhere But you are greatly appreciated by folks like myself who are extremely difficult to draw blood from and even worse for running an IV!!! Thank you for NOT digging for a vein and listening to patients!
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 doctor: Any allergies? Me: Penicillin. Doc: Okay I’m going to prescribe you a cousin to penicillin. Me: … uhm. Well you’re the doctor, you know best. Pharmacist: Holdit-
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 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.
Sounds about right! Hospital pharmacies especially central inpatient can be pretty dismal places! If you work at a hospital pharmacy with a window then you are LIVING THE HIGH LIFE!
@@gutsfinkyI remember they even took away the medication delivery at Walter Reid Army hospital by using a robot so the poor pharmacists never got to get out until their shift was over. That was before they moved it to Bethesda though, not been to the new one enough to know about the pharmacy.
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.
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)
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🥰😘
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.
As someone with many chronic illnesses, I really appreciate pharmacists checking for drug interactions between my medications. It makes my world safer.
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.
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!
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.
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 dads a pharmacist and he can sit down during the day he just doesn’t have any chance to. He does own the pharmacy so maybe it’s because of that but he’s the only pharmacist there
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
Where I’m from the doctors usually calls the pharmacists to confirm what’s safe for me, it sounds like the doc is playing safe but I’d prefer that instead of giving me prescriptions I don’t need
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 🥰
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!
I remember someone commenting that pharmacist are just over-qualified chemist working in an under-qualified job and I couldn’t agree more, coming from someone who has a pharm family member
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!
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.
It is true that doctors actually do very little of their actual work; the nurses in our hospital frequently use doctors signatures without explicit permission which is de facto forging BECAUSE doctors refuse to do their end of the scutwork that is writing their signatures on orders and treatments they want done. Instead they write their signatures on a big white board and assume people will use them as they were supposed to.
...sounds like a great way to get the government to impose EPCS-like immutable electronic solutions on even the most mundane orders & prescriptions. :|
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.
Whenever I get a verbal or phone order adjustment from a doctor. I always say "I'll put in for you". That way I know it's right and ordered correctly. Nothing gripes more when MD puts in the order and I have to call the pharmacist so they can adjust the order or call the MD.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
I want more of this sweet pharmacist who is passive aggressive to doctors
Yeeees! Dr. Glaucomflecken, I love the pharmacist, the people demand more
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
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
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
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’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)
Lol I'm no pharmacist just a pharmacy tech that works at the dreaded three letter pharmacy with the really long receipts. And working with them made me realize they do not get paid enough and also you have to be slightly crazy/masochist to want to be one. But I respect the people that already are and who is willing to become one. Y'all the true MVPs.
Passed the PCATs with an 81. Thought about it a bit more, and said oh hell no. Went on to go on towards a PhD in biochemistry. I sell insurance now and make more than I ever could at either job. Einstein was right, if he wasn't going to be a scientist he would have sold insurance. Lol.
Tech at the dreaded three letter pharmacy here as well, techs don't get paid enough there as well. Severely underpaid given the exponential increase in workload the last few months. Found a new pharm tech job though that pays me $20/hr, and it's wfh :) holding on to the three letter for a little longer in case it goes sideways but...
@@liveoffthewall oh shit $20??!! you've got to tell us where
@@kspade1788 three-letter pharmacy with long receipts? Also a convenience store
@@rheyanalwin8989 No, my question was which new pharmcy is the $20/hr.
I know what the 3lettered pharmacy is, and they only pay $16, because I work for them currently.
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
Loved to see material about pharmacist, i feel like we are under-represented. That was great
"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
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" 😂😂
"Sorry, that medication is on backorder." It's become a reflex at this point.
Hydralazine... again.
"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
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
so true, pharmacists have saved my ass more times than I can count 😭😭 nothing but respect for them
As a pharmacy tech I can say it's the whole department not just pharmacists that can't sit
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 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?
Pharmacists are the absolute best team members of the medical community. Love them. They have our backs.
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
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…
I love the passive aggression so much
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.
I work in retail pharmacy and this still feels accurate!
I love our pharmacists. And they are a great source of help in the hospital.
So grateful for all the times pharmacists have saved my butt (and my patients’!).
I love the pharmacy they have helped me my entire 23 years of nursing! ❤❤❤
The Price is Right losing horn went off. I'm dead.
The pharmacist caught the antibiotic dosage recommended dose and corrected it. Took an extra 30 mins but it was for my 6 week old who had a crazy high fever and turned out to have pneumonia so they were dead set to get it right. Fantastic at their jobs and I’m so thankful for them 💕
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!!!
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!
"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. 🤗
One of my favourites for sure!
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!
I would love to see one about the various techs like bio medical techs scrub tech or respiratory techs.
Don't forget your phlebs! (Phlebotomist aka your local vampire 🤣🤣) I never have any representation 🤣🤣🤣
@@Crazziesrhere But you are greatly appreciated by folks like myself who are extremely difficult to draw blood from and even worse for running an IV!!!
Thank you for NOT digging for a vein and listening to patients!
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 😁
As someone who's been trying to get my ADHD medication for MANY months now, that "backorder" joke really hits home
Omg finally the pharmacist get some recognition
Could you do more, please? My pharmacist buddies love it. 😂
My doctor: Any allergies?
Me: Penicillin.
Doc: Okay I’m going to prescribe you a cousin to penicillin.
Me: … uhm. Well you’re the doctor, you know best.
Pharmacist: Holdit-
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!
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.
As a registered pharmacist i feel appreciated, even though I'm not a working pharmacist
as a pharmacist I confirm that we stand all day long 😂
I thought it was tally marks for how many days they've been imprisoned in the pharmacy
That’s where my mind went too 😂
I actually do have tally marks at my work station with my record of days worked in a row. Still unbeaten.
Sounds about right! Hospital pharmacies especially central inpatient can be pretty dismal places! If you work at a hospital pharmacy with a window then you are LIVING THE HIGH LIFE!
@@gutsfinkyI remember they even took away the medication delivery at Walter Reid Army hospital by using a robot so the poor pharmacists never got to get out until their shift was over.
That was before they moved it to Bethesda though, not been to the new one enough to know about the pharmacy.
Thats on the other wall
@@Hyper_Fox06 that's pitiful. I had a coworker who used her delivery runs to play Pokémon Go.
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.
“I’ve never seen this one before…” even better the second time doc
Even a commercial pharmacy technician trainee can tell you that this is accurate lol.
THIS video!! Can't believe I gave the imposter like 30 views!
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)
Yes we need more representation of our healthcare professionals, love your videos.
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🥰😘
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.
As someone with many chronic illnesses, I really appreciate pharmacists checking for drug interactions between my medications. It makes my world safer.
Wild seeing this immediately after I started looking into pharmacy school. Crazy coincidence
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.
The pharmacist sounds chill.
0:41 without question always makes me laugh , thank you pharmacists pls stay winning
The back order immediately killed me hahahahahaha
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! 💜
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!
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.
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.
"prohibited from sitting down", i felt that in my soul, i mean, feet....
In your sole**
That’s crazy how much doctors mess up but good thing there are checks for them that catch their mistakes… most of the time
As a nurse you are a breath of fresh air, sir!
My dads a pharmacist and he can sit down during the day he just doesn’t have any chance to. He does own the pharmacy so maybe it’s because of that but he’s the only pharmacist there
As a pharmacist u wont know how much medication interaction we have to correct also the for pregnant women i apperciate the video
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
Pharmacists and nurses save so many people from potential medical mistakes. Bless them.
I need a video of the pharmacy and ophthalmologist freaking out over the emergency endophthalmitis orders/case in the hospital
Where I’m from the doctors usually calls the pharmacists to confirm what’s safe for me, it sounds like the doc is playing safe but I’d prefer that instead of giving me prescriptions I don’t need
or ones that could harm you
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 🥰
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!
I remember someone commenting that pharmacist are just over-qualified chemist working in an under-qualified job and I couldn’t agree more, coming from someone who has a pharm family member
Lol!! So very accurate!! I’ve decided being a bit weird is required to work in a pharmacy.
Considering we're usually located in a remote section of the hospital (in my case, a basement) confirmed.
It was a pharmacist that made me know that I shouldn't be taking antacids with Omeprazole.
Saved me from pain.
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!
as a pharmacist i confirm this is legit
Wait are you telling me I subscribed to an imposter's channel?
That was the first time I subscribed.
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!
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.
It is true that doctors actually do very little of their actual work; the nurses in our hospital frequently use doctors signatures without explicit permission which is de facto forging BECAUSE doctors refuse to do their end of the scutwork that is writing their signatures on orders and treatments they want done. Instead they write their signatures on a big white board and assume people will use them as they were supposed to.
That seems like a medical malpractice suit waiting to happen...
Seems dumb… so I believe it.
Lmao that's insane and obviously a sign the system needs an overhaul.
...sounds like a great way to get the government to impose EPCS-like immutable electronic solutions on even the most mundane orders & prescriptions. :|
@@ReptilianLepton It does indeed. I'm betting we'll see a big overhaul soon.
Also.. im a general surgery resident and love your videos!
Unbelievable how hard they work behind the scenes . I worked in a MiCU and our pharmacist was awesome . Thank you Wendy
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.
Whenever I get a verbal or phone order adjustment from a doctor. I always say "I'll put in for you". That way I know it's right and ordered correctly. Nothing gripes more when MD puts in the order and I have to call the pharmacist so they can adjust the order or call the MD.
I am a pharmacist myself. Thank you for highlighting the importance of Pharmacists
Each member is so important, thank you 💕
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.