tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793561531129775733.post4208180555882956025..comments2023-04-17T04:11:33.193-07:00Comments on Counsel Me: I'll keep at it if you meet me halfwayFrantic Pharmacisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804872250102867314noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793561531129775733.post-37125628054594486112014-07-11T08:27:29.468-07:002014-07-11T08:27:29.468-07:00I don't work in community, but I love your blo...I don't work in community, but I love your blog. Reading through the 2008 posts and some of the 2014 ones, I see the same themes popping up that we face across the border. Even in hospital we see so much entitlement (in Canada, other people are paying for your hospital stay). People want everything done for them. They want everything for free. They don't want to put any work or time or energy into their health. They go from 0-360 the minute something doesn't go perfectly their way. It's an overwhelming ignorance, self-absorbed and immature, and I think we face it more so than other professions because patients don't perceive us as being as educated in community because of the nature of the practice setting.<br />I also loved one of your earliest posts about workplace loyalty. How you do your job and do it well, but don't volunteer for some of the extra stuff the company does as a means of self-promotion. I agree. The hospital expects so much extra as do the higher ups, way beyond just doing your job well and thoroughly, and yet you know to them you are entirely disposable and they don't care about you as a person at all.<br />It's so great to see another pharmacist with personality, integrity, and conviction and who stands up for herself. The profession would be a better place if there were more of us with that kind of strength and integrity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8793561531129775733.post-77936375109659376742013-10-07T17:40:40.646-07:002013-10-07T17:40:40.646-07:00See, I don't get it. In Cynicalville, I go to ...See, I don't get it. In Cynicalville, I go to Great Big Pharmacy. It's a great big pharmacy (plus grocery/clothing/book/candy store) that's in every town. They are really busy sometimes, and I can tell when by how the pharmacist never looks up from what she's doing, and the techs' faces are red. But they are really nice and fun. I've been going there 12 years, and have developed this running insult-gag relationship with one of the techs. The pharmacist has kids that go to school on my beat, and I see her sometimes when I'm running radar in the school zone. She always smiles and waves at me. They are knowledgeable, friendly and fun, and since I've moved clear to the other side of Cynicalville, I've continued driving there to get my Smegmastatin scrips filled every month. I wouldn't think of transferring them to the one a block from my new house. I just don't get it. I love my pharmacist and her techs. Officer Cynicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04193271958353271282noreply@blogger.com