Had a pharmacist call just now to get a maximum daily dosage for a patient's medication.

[Aristus]

It's not the kind of medication for which a maximum daily dosage notation is usually called for. But the insurance companies have been holding up more and more hoops to jump through all the time, in order to wriggle out of paying for a patient's medication. I notice they still accept a patient's insurance premiums, though.

Anyway, I finally found a maximum daily dosage recommendation, and passed it on to the pharmacist.

"Max is 100 milligrams daily."

"Uh-huh. And how much is that in grams?"



"100 milligrams! It's metric! IT'S. ONE. TENTH. OF A GRAM!"

I need a drink...

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. And this isn't Joe Blow off the street ... it's a freaking pharmacist ...

THAT ... is absolutely pathetic.

I'll drink with you man

[Aristus]

3. Tonight, with any luck.

After today, I have the rest of the week off for the holiday. Week-night drinking isn't as alluring as day-drinking. But it's close...

[Nittersing]

4. You're getting five days off in a row?????

Don't know how you swung that, but Yay!!!!!!

[Aristus]

5. I take every Wednesday off. Burnout prevention measure.

Thursday off for Thanksgiving. Then I was originally scheduled to work Friday, the thinking being the Wednesday constituted a 'holiday' for me.

My MA Supervisor, always looking out for me, saw that and cancelled my Friday, saying Wednesday is just a regular day off, and shouldn't affect my holiday scheduling.

[mitch96]

7. +1 good deal..nt

[Laffy Kat]

2. A pharmacist didn't know that milligrams was metric?

Wonder if it was a pharmacy assistant? Please tell me it was a pharmacy assistant, which is terrifying enough.

[mitch96]

6. I had a similar situation with a newly registered x-ray tech..The person kept repeating the films

b/c they were too dark. The person kept lowering the factors till the point it was just a total black and white film, no detail or gray scale.. I was called to help..
It turns out the tech had the factors set at 1.0 seconds instead of .001 seconds.. DUH..
When I questioned the tech about the factors the reply was..
"Oh that silly little dot"... I'm thinking "fecken egitt"...
Like your offending pharmacist these "mistakes" could have ramifications on peoples health.
Uff da... don't get sick...
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[dickthegrouch]

8. You're fortunate they haven't asked "how many pills is that?"

I was asked that recently, and not being a prescriber, I had no clue what the either the prescription, or the phamacist chose to dispense.
Fairly frequently recently the quantity and ordering cadence of my meds have been screwed up because of difference in opinion between the doc and pharmacist. Thankfully I'm mathematically inclined .

[lostnfound]

15. This is the most terrifying thread. Nt

[progree]

9. Aren't the dosages of darn near everything in milligrams? Maybe I should look at

my old prescription bottles that I hoard -- I knew I was saving them for a reason. (I also save the prescription sheets too).

Anyway, darn near every prescription to my recollection is for some XX milligrams.

So it ought to be familiar to them by now.

Doesn't even matter that it's metric. "milli"- means 1/1,000th, no matter what's on the right hand side of the dash.

[NewEnglandAutumn]

10. I agree

I work as a pharmacy tech and the number of too early to fills, need prior authorizations, try other meds etc are on the rise.

[SCantiGOP]

11. Either Trevor Noah or Colbert

commented that the US-Wales soccer game ended up 1-1, but said that was actually a very exciting score when converted to metric.

[progree]

14. 1000 millipoints - 1000 millipoints, I guess. That way, it sounds like an action-packed nail-biter.

[TNNurse]

12. An actual pharmacist or a pharm tech???

Either one should know. If it was a pharmacist, I might consider contacted the state licensing board. That is first year knowledge.

[LuckyCharms]

13. Yikes! Even I knew the answer to that...

and I'm not exactly intelligent!

That's kind of scary that a pharmacist, or even a pharmacy tech, asked that question.