When can the pharmacist be a supermarket seller!

Ever been in a pharmacy where you entered only to buy gum, makeup, cotton pads…. Many did and honestly no pharmacy is empty of these stuff… Who do you trust more, your mum when telling you about medication or the person in lab coat “if he/she was” ?? for me I think Grany may know about medications more than a pharmacist who smells as a smoker and try to convince me with Chapmix, Necotril, or even Nikotin gum..

Here raises the Question, WHY?? Each person in pharmacy or current collages come from decentfamilies, all are graduated from good school, and believe me no one reach is 5th year in JU and considered a weak pharmacist. Yet you come to cross some people and you wonder how they are pharmacist! Sorry ever came across a graduate student from Petra or Amman Ahlieh! No comparison..

Yet stupid mistakes are done, is this common scenario:

Patient: I need baby aspirin® and something for my tooth its killing me too much.

Pharmacist: sure, Dolora®z is the fastest one, see it has a Rabbit on it.

Patient:  sure it is safe I don’t need any pain I have ulcer already.

Pharmacist: yes this is Ranidin® , and here is 10% discount for coming.

I am not trying to provide an OTC lecture, but WHAT ARE YOU DOING, Aspirin and Ibobrofin, sorry but stupidity is what you have. Here comes the most important thing that makes you a Health Care Provider not someone looking to sell all the amount of this medication coz it has high bonus or near expiry date! Have anyone actually been to a pharmacy that didn’t have a whole shelf of Near Expiry? I don’t think so.

Many and I believe want to graduate and work for a foreign company, end up with 800JD’s per month then settle down, many of those Ph seekers want to be tortures or be named Dr.’s and those whose husband doesn’t approve anything want to work in a pharmacy, and the knowledge stops, no more being updated no more patient counseling nor having a guidelines to fallow, antibiotics will stop working in less than a century and the black ages will hunt again, the good thing many people will die and more space will be held for others.

Sorry to ask but, to be online updated or subscribe for Pharmacy Times® isn’t bad, it will raise you for sure and won’t kill you, no need for you to stop in a lecture and say I haven’t entered a pharmacy since over a decade, or to teach OTC when you never worked in a pharmacy in the country you are teaching it, nor give Ethics when you are not a practice pharmacist. Yes sorry to say I have better knowledge to work in a pharmacy and what’s in the market more than half of Dr.’s who never worked and probably faked their 1440 hours to be a practice pharmacist.

You are a seller when you don’t get updated, when you never work up your career, when you are INEFFECTIVE, make a meaning of your life, or at least don’t kill people by stupid mistakes, be a health care provider and remember the promise you made…