Great Moments in Being Dicked Over (Part II)

Someone commented after the first "Great Moments in Being Dicked Over" post and asked if I had any horror tales from the first SPE, PY1. As a matter of fact I do! Funny how almost every SPE has it's own horror story -- it's almost as if no one sans Mandy can put a competent one together.

So anyway -- most of us operate on the premise that Lab, like we've all been told ad nauseum, is serious fuckin' business. It's just like the real world, child! They tell you that from day one and you play the silly game for 6 semesters, presumably. Never mind the fact that mistakes that would fail you in your PY2 IV practical only get points deducted in your PY3 escapades (does that mean lab gets less real-er?).

When we had our first SPE the patient was constipated and had a prescription for Dulcolax. Child please, right? Constipation is almost the Rorschach test of OTC dilemmas -- I'm feeling like umm...mag citrate today! (Chug one of these bottles and BLOW. OUT. SON.) Oh well, I guess I'll recommend mineral oil today -- patient being fussy? Make that a mineral oil enema. Bottom line is it's hard to fudge this problem -- you just have to justify your choice and not be criminally stupid about it. So our patient brought a script for Dulcolax and it was his first episode of constipation ever, etc etc (I get fuzzy on the detes, y'all). So when we get up to leave, curveball enter stage left -- the patient takes the prescription from us.


WHY DIDN'T I WRITE THAT SHIT ON A POST-IT?
Y'know, because Lab is like the real world and patients stop by the pharmacy at "Rite Drug" all the time just to flash you a script and then walk away. Needless to say I didn't remember the drug by the time I, ohhhh, walked across the hall? Regardless, someone special must have graded mine because I got a far better grade than someone who doesn't even know the baseline therapy deserves. Pretty hard to determine the drug therapy problem when you don't know the drug therapy, right? Too bad I didn't bring my Ouija board...The problem was pretty widespread too -- kind of setting the bar for Lab for the next 5 semesters I suppose.

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