drew myself a banner so my page can be pretty + on theme (because for now this blog is, i guess, purely witch hat art...). might add more to it but for now its finisheeedddd :-)
Sooooā¦ā¦.. that new witch show is really really good huh?
Iām joking, Iāve almost caught up on the manga and itās AMAZING so in between assignments this term, Iāve been doing lots of sketching
Iām like 97% confident that someone has already drawn Remlin and Coco hanging out but, as a fan of both series it just felt right
Plus bonus doodle of Mary and Coco because Mary and the witchās flower is a highly underrated film
Also ā if I had a nickel for every eccentric, morally ambiguous, character that wore an eye mask, was head of a shady organization of violent anarchists, and performed an off-brand, forbidden form of magic that I ended up loving, I would have TWO āļønickels
love how tumblr staff has time to censor words likeĀ āpaint mixingā andĀ āmy faceā and yet they canāt get rid of ssexsophie8127 thats been liking my posts from 2017
Non-exhaustive list of reasons behind the delay when you go to pick up your meds at the pharmacy, from a pharmacy tech
It's a long one, so there'll be a read more after the first few points and more in a reblog
Tech filled a prescription for an antibiotic, but when it gets to the pharmacist, they actually need to call the doctor and have the script changed because itās the wrong antibiotic for the infection indicated. Doctor doesnāt answer at first. Pharmacist starts validating a refill but the doctorās office calls back and the pharmacist has to stop what they were doing.
We havenāt had time to restock the shelves with all the medications that are lying in bins in the back, and weāre out of your medication on the floor so we need to look through the order list, figure out what bin your medication is, and go rummage in the back.
Someoneās calling to get a box of Covid tests, but we have to give them our rehearsed speech on how the handing out of Covid tests in pharmacies is actually now restricted, and has been since May, to certain patients who are unvaccinated and at risk or to patients who are financially in a situation where they canāt afford to buy them, so unfortunately, person on the phone, youāll have to go to X center or X clinic to get them, where theyāre handing them out no questions asked. This call takes three minutes.
We just received a fax for someone whoās just left the hospital and we have to prepare six new medications for them and when we call the patient, they canāt get to the pharmacy on their own and no one can pick up their meds for them, so we have to organize a taxi for that personās meds. The pharmacist also has to explain all these treatments over the phone and answer any questions the patient may have, which always takes longer than in person.
The pharmacist had to see two other patients for advice on their medications, patients who had ordered in advance but who find out at the register that the pharmacist wants to speak to them or explain this new medication or what have you, so the pharmacist takes the time to see these two patients who did order before you and also want to leave the pharmacy.
The slot for a certain medication in our pill-counting machine is empty, so I have to go fill that.
Someoneās insurance didnāt go through because they have a new card or are with a new company, so they need to go back over to the first counter and have a tech update that in their file and print the new receipt.
Weā¦ donāt have a full time cashier, so the technicians need to take turns being at the register.
Itās lunch time and people are on break, which they rightfully deserve, so thereās an employee or two less than there usually is.
You came in at the same time as four other people who also wanted just a single refill, but we still fill them one after the other and can get interrupted by phone calls, by problems at the register, etc.
We need to substitute your dosage, which is back order, for two different dosages that youāll take at the same time. This takes more time, because we need to copy the prescription and modify it, have the ānewā prescription validated by the pharmacist, have the pharmacist, legally, explain the new posology to you even if you were told at the first counter that we were going to have to make that change.
Someone wants advice for a cough syrup, and as a technician, I am not legally allowed to give any recommendations even though I know for a fact that the pharmacist is just going to say that the cough syrups we sell donāt do anything and mostly just have a placebo effect and you should just drink water. The patient has to wait behind people who came in front of them, just so the pharmacist themself can tell them that, because I canāt. Itās frustrating for me too, but I canāt say anything.
Weāre behind on preparing the refills that people ordered hours ago because our day has been hectic, so I have to give you a longer wait time so that realistically, we can get some of those filled by a technician and validated by a pharmacist.
Daily patient comes in for their dose of methadone or suboxone to help with an opioid addiction, and the pharmacist has to prepare their medication, too.
This happened recently but uhhh some guy comes in pissing blood out of his arm and we urgently have to help him while we call an ambulance, and a patient comes in thirty minutes later and the blood has been mopped up and thereās no trace that anything happened but Iām at the counter and a little fucking traumatized and this patient wants me to synchronize their medications and I am not mentally processing anything
There are complicated files and prescriptions and types of ways we fill prescriptions (ex: people who get their medications weekly in these little packs sorted by day and time of day and their files are really complicated to navigate and usually taken care of by a specific technician)
Your medication is a special order medication that gets made by another pharmacy and we sent the invoice and everything and are waiting for them to send us the medication but the ballās in their court and we still havenāt received your meds
Main reasons for delays are justā¦ a lot of calls and lots of people coming in at the same time for refills and questions that require a varying amount of time and effort to fill and answer. People who come in when we just opened usually barely have to wait, but we have rush hours just like every other store and there are five people in front of you waiting for a counsel and/or their meds. Sometimes, a quick little refill that took the tech literally thirty seconds to fill is immediately noticed by the pharmacist and gets validated right away ahead of the more complicated cases and sent to the register, but sometimes it sits on the counter for a while because the pharmacist is resolving a difficult situation, or showing someone how to inject their insulin, or explaining side effects to someone, or in a consult to prescribe the morning-after pill and has lots of questions to ask the patient.
Sometimes, we have patients who are very mean and rude and short with us. They are often in pain, or have been slighted by the medical system, or have had bad experiences at the hospital or the pharmacy before, and they take a lot of time to talk to and try to reason with. During this time, your request, or even refilled medication, sits on the counter in a little basket waiting to be validated.
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