Take for example my patient, for whom I had to spend a full minute of my interview time convincing her goddamn name was Betsy. If you can’t remember your name, I have low hopes for you remembering an HPI. But miraculously, “Betty” actually remembered more pertinent things such as she took her fosamax wrong as shit. Others weren’t so fortunate, with their patient explaining that they took their drug correctly, not giving up their calcium dose paper, etc etc.
And the criminal BS wasn’t limited to the shitty patient education process as there was an equally shitty grading process. Now why they had to pick a problem we never learned how to solve in class is beyond me – we’ve had two semesters of OTC and a semester of therapeutics; there’s tons of shit we know how to solve by now. But fine – remember that therapeutics is an art form and there’s multiple ways to solve each and every problem. Unfortunately lab is not an art form. Lab is the COP equivalent of a Greek tragedy. That being said, the problem was that the patient took her drug a wrong-ass way and had a self-limiting injury caused by taking her drug said wrong-ass way. So it made sense to my pharmacist-in-gestation mind to let that shit heal itself and tell Granny how to not hurt herself in the future after I ruled that she had no additional risk factors for esophageal ulcers/perforation. I guess that’s why I’m still in gestation – too much fucking common sense.
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I totally agree! My dumbass actor was fucking popping her fosa with 2 oz of H2O and chillin in the backyard with her ass in the air pulling weeds. I told her, "Oh hell's naw!" I told her to take some omeprazole, drink the shit out of some water, and sit the hell up for atleast 30 min but prefer she keep her ass upright for longer. I find out later that she was already on omeprazole or some shit. Never volunteered that info even when I asked if she had taken anything for her stomach or chest as she put it. Soooo I realized that I had already dropped from an A to a C, and there is NEVER any arguing in lab, so I made smartass comments on my reflection paper that we filled out. Example I told them that I did absolutely nothing correctly and the only good part of the SPE was that I showed up on time, brushed my teeth, was clean, wore my white coat, looked hot in my black pants, wore deoderant and the list went on. I guess I got my extra 15 points cause I passed. A to a C. Look out 3rd year lab you are gonna be my BITCH! Later, Joleen
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