Why I Hate The Drive-Thru
Drug of the Day:
Amoxicillin (generic name)
(Amoxil, Biomox, Polymox, Trimox, Wymox … brand names)
Amoxicillin is a penicillin antibiotic used to kill or stop the growth of bacteria that causes many different kinds of infections.
For more information on this commonly used antibiotic, go to www.drugdigest.org serviced by Express Scripts or www.webmd.com is a good one also.
Lets All Be Lazy:
Doing a little research, you will find that the drive-thru was first pioneered in the US back in the 1940s mainly by the fast food companies such as In-&-Out, McDonalds, etc. I understand its ok for Drive-Thru’s to be at fast-food places and the banks but why the pharmacy? Yes it does bring in more customers (especially the lazy ones that wouldn’t dare to get off their arses to take 1 minute to walk inside the pharmacy) but it slows down the efficiency of the pharmacy in my opinion unless you have someone standing at the drive-thru all day. The only reason why there should be a Drive-Thru is to assist fellow disabled Americans or people who can’t physically move around too much due to pain from surgery or other things of that sort. What amazes me most is that these people who shouldn’t be moving about too much usually comes in to the pharmacy 99% of the time to drop off their prescriptions. Isn’t that amazing?
I guess my main point is people abuse the Drive-Thru, they get the mindset that if they drop off their prescriptions at the Drive-Thru it will get done faster like how the fast-food chains do it. No no no… it doesn’t work that way. As one of my pharmacist the other day said to a lady customer, “There’s no way we can get this done in 5 minutes, this isn’t a McDonalds!” Boy, you should have seen the look on her face. Might be a little harsh but its true, this isn’t a Burger King, Jack-in-the-Box, or Wendy’s, this is a pharmacy, it will take time to verify everything on the prescription to make sure it is 100% accurate and packaged & counted correctly before dispensing it to the patient. Because if we didn’t take the time to check everything out in detail, a lot of errors will occur thus ultimately doing more harm than benefits to the patients in the end.
Picture of the Day:
Was surfing the internet and came across this picture. Kids must have a lot of free time at night these days. I wish I was there to see the look at the staff’s reaction.
I actually work for their main competitor. More to come later but for now, time to have fun at the pharmacy!
